Last Week's Final Adjusted Ratings
Early Ratings Analysis by Marc Berman (TVMediaInsights)
The analysis below is based on the early household numbers and are NOT the same as the numbers that will be posted in the above table later. (See the About section below)
NOTE: The opinions expressed here are NOT those of SpoilerTV but of the Author of this Article, Marc Berman.
Metered Market Overnights
Household Rating/Share
CBS 6.4/10
ABC 4.6/ 7
NBC 2.9/ 4
Fox 2.3/ 4
CW 1.0/ 2
Percent Change from the Comparable Year-Ago Period:
CW: +100, CBS: – 9, ABC: -15, NBC: -34, Fox: -38
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-Winners:
The Bachelor (ABC), “Scorpion” (CBS), “NCIS: Los Angeles” (CBS)
-Could Be Better/Could Be Worse:
“Superstore” (NBC), “Telenovela (NBC)
-Losers (excluding repeats):
The Biggest Loser (NBC), “Superhuman” (Fox)
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Ratings Breakdown:
CBS scored an easy Monday overnight household victory care of its combination of “Supergirl” (#2: 5.3 rating/8 share), “Scorpion” (#1 for the night: 7.3/11) and “NCIS: Los Angeles” (#1: 6.6/11). But ABC is the network to beat in adults 18-49 (and all the key young adult demographics) thanks to the return of perennial franchise “The Bachelor,” which scored a 5.4/ 8 in the overnights from 8-10 p.m. Comparably, that was equal to its year-ago season opener (on this evening) and that translated into 7.76 million viewers and a 2.2 rating/7 share in adults 18-49, based on the Live + Same Day data. All these years later and “The Bachelor” remains solid time period filler in between editions of “Dancing With the Stars.”
Airing out of “The Bachelor” was post-show “The Bachelor Live,” which slipped to a 3.0/ 5 at 10 p.m. (#2) and will remain in the hour for the next three Mondays.
In time period premiere news, NBC sitcom “Superstore” got off to a better start than lead-out “Telenovela” with a 4.0/ 6 in households in the 8 p.m. half-hour into a 3.1/ 5 for “Telenovela” at 8:30 p.m. (#3). The pair, on average, was 26 percent the first hour of “Celebrity Apprentice” on the year-ago evening (4.8/ 8 on 1/05/15). Considering NBC is not known for airing comedies in the Monday 8 p.m. hour this is not all that bad…at least initially.
Disappointing for NBC, however, was the return of “The Biggest Loser,” which slipped to 2.5/ 4 from 9-11 p.m. Head-to-head with “The Bachelor” in the 9 p.m. hour, “The Biggest Loser” trailed by 53 percent.
Elsewhere, Fox populated the night with two-hour special “Superhuman,” which was not so superhuman at a 2.3/ 4 from 8-10 p.m. And The CW aired encore telecasts of “Whose Line is it Anyway?” (#5: avg. 1.1/ 2) and “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” (#5: 1.0/ 1).
Source: Nielsen Media Research
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About the Daily Ratings
Each day (except Sunday) during the main TV Season we post the TV Ratings for the previous nights primetime shows for the major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, CW, FOX, NBC). Cable Network ratings will be added to the Ratings Database.
The first item that gets posted (normally around 2pm GMT) is the early overnight analysis based on the early household numbers (these are not the same as the Total Viewers and 18-49 Demo numbers that are posted later).
Next, if available, we will post the Top 25 Market 18-49 Ratings to give you a rough idea of the ratings to following.
Later on (normally between 4pm-5pm GMT) we post the official early overnight Total Viewers and 18-49 Demo numbers in the table above (We also where possible now post the 18-34 and 25-54 Demo Numbers).
Finally, later in the evening (10pm-11pm GMT) or the following day, the final adjusted ratings numbers are released, these are then posted in the Ratings Database. The Final Adjusted numbers are what we use for all our Renew/Cancellation Tables, Full Season Tables, Ratings Scorecards etc (see below). Friday's Final Adjusted Ratings are normally available on the following Monday.
NOTE: We will open up the ratings post early so that people can chat/disqus whilst we wait for the HH, T25 Numbers and then the Early Overnight numbers as usual.
