Ratings News - 30th April 2014

Today's Early Overnight Ratings

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Early Ratings Analysis

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)

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Tuesday 4/29/14 Metered Markets
Clean Sweep for CBS; Respectable Sampling for “Supernatural” Pilot

Household
Rating/Share
CBS 9.2/15
NBC 5.2/ 8
ABC 2.8/ 4
Fox 1.8/ 3
CW 1.3/ 2

-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Tuesday 4/30/13:
CW: +62, CBS: + 8, NBC: -19, ABC: -51, Fox: -38

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-Winners:
“NCIS” (CBS), “The Voice” (NBC), “NCIS: Los Angeles” (CBS), “Person of Interest” (CBS), “Chicago Fire” (NBC)

-Losers (excluding repeats):
“Glee” (Fox), “New Girl” (Fox), “Trophy Wife” (ABC), “The Mindy Project” (Fox), “Celebrity Wife Swap” (ABC)

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-Ratings Breakdown:
It was another clean overnight household Tuesday sweep for CBS with its line-up of “NCIS” (#1: for the night: 11.0 rating/17 share), “NCIS: Los Angeles” (9.5/14) and “Person of Interest” (7.3/12). But a competitive second-place 7.2/11 for “The Voice” on NBC at 8 p.m. means that the race demographically will be much closer than the 77 percent overnight advantage CBS has over NBC.

Supported by “The Voice,” 9-10 p.m. lead-out NBC comedies “About a Boy” (#2: 4.3/ 7) and “Growing Up Fisher” (#2: 3.6/ 5) were at typical overnight levels and are both worth renewing. And sophomore (and already renewed) “Chicago Fire” capped off the night with a second-place 4.6/ 8 at 10 p.m., which was 24 percent above year-ago occupant “Grimm” (3.7/ 6 on 4/30/13) and could very well win the time period in the key demos. Comparably. “Chicago Fire” built from “Growing Up Fisher” by 28 percent.

It was Tuesday business as usual on ABC, which is not necessarily a positive, with its combination of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” (#3: 3.8/ 6), “The Goldbergs” (#3: 3.1/ 5), “Trophy Wife” (#3: 2.1/ 3) and “Celebrity Wife Swap” (#3: 1.9/ 3), which at this point needs to be put to rest. Comparably, “The Goldbergs” and “Trophy Wife” trailed the competing NBC comedies by an average of 34 percent.

Elsewhere, Fox finished in the distant No. 4 spot with its deteriorating combination of “Glee” (#4: 1.9/ 3), “New Girl” (#4: 1.8/ 3) and “The Mindy Project” (#4: 1.7/ 3). And the proposed pilot from The CW’s “Supernatural” (titled “Bloodlines”) scored a 1.4/ 2 in the overnights at 9 p.m. last night out of a 1.3/ 2 for “The Originals” at 8 p.m. Comparably, both dramas were on par from one week earlier.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

Source:

Marc Berman@tvmediainsights

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.

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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