Last Week's Final Adjusted Ratings
Early HH Ratings from Marc Berman (programminginsider)
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.
Household Rating/Share
Fox: 5.8 rating/10 share, ABC: 5.1/ 9, CBS: 2.8/ 5, NBC: 2.5/ 4, CW: 0.7/ 1
Percent Change from the Year-Ago Evening:
Fox: – 5, ABC: – 7, CW: -36, CBS and NBC: -39 each
Ratings Breakdown:
The 2016 NCAA Basketball Tournament (aka “March Madness) began on CBS and the networks of Turner – TBS, TNT and truTV. The two featured match-ups on CBS were UT-Chattanooga vs. Indiana and Stony Brook vs. Kentucky, and they scored an average – and estimated — 2.8 rating/5 share in the household overnights in primetime. Comparably, this was 39 percent below the two featured games on CBS on the year-ago evening. As a reminder, results for any live sporting event are always approximate.
In season-finale news, “How To Get Away With Murder” on ABC won the 10 p.m. hour with a 4.1/ 7 in the overnights. But that was 37 percent below the 6.5/11 for the year-ago season-finale (on 2/26/15). It was 20 percent below the 9:30 p.m. portion of lead-in “Scandal” (5.1/ 8). And it five percent below the 4.3/ 7 for “American Crime” on the year-ago evening. The moral of the story: Putting a scripted drama on a long hiatus is not a good idea.
Earlier in the evening on ABC was warhorse “Grey’s Anatomy” at a dominant 6.2/10 at 8 p.m., followed by aforementioned “Scandal” at a 5.1/ 8 at 9 p.m. Of the three ABC TGIT dramas, only “Grey’s Anatomy” was not negatively impacted by the hiatus.
Next Thursday, ABC drama “The Catch” from Shonda Rhomes debuts at 10 p.m.
Elsewhere, two more hours of Fox’s soon-to-conclude “American Idol” won the night overall with a 5.8/10 on households from 8-10 p.m. NBC populated this third March Thursday with failing “You, me and the Apocalypse” (#4: 1.8/ 3), a repeat of “The Blacklist” (#4: 2.0/ 3) and freshman “Shades of Blue” (#2: 3.7/ 7), which grew by 85 percent from “The Blacklist” encore. And The CW aired repeats of dramas “D.C.’s Legends of Tomorrow” (#5: 9.9/ 2) and “The 1oo” (#5: 0.5/ 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.
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