Ratings News - 14th January 2015

Today's Early Overnight Ratings

This table shows the early overnight ratings. These ratings are normally adjusted later in the day when all the ratings have been consolidated to take into account any local preemptions and/or overruns. You can find all the final adjusted numbers in our Ratings Database. (See the About section below for details about 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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Metered Market Tuesday Ratings:
Sluggish Return for the Final Season of “Parks and Recreation” on NBC

Tuesday 1/14/15

Household
Rating/Share
CBS 9.2/15
NBC 3.9/ 6
ABC 2.9/ 5
Fox 2.7/ 4
CW 1.1/ 2

-Percent Change from the Year-Ago Evening – Tuesday 1/15/14:
ABC: +30, Fox: +12, CBS: – 9, CW: -21, NBC: -24

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Note: The following labels are based on the household overnights and are subject to change given the availability of other pending data streams. The overnights are your first look at what to potentially expect when the other results come in. And we always take into account other benchmarks including the expected demographic ratings, potential DVR usage, the critical acclaim (or lack of) and the social media presence. Keep in mind, as always, that results for any live sporting event are always approximate.

-Winners:
“NCIS” (CBS), “Shark Tank” (ABC), “NCIS: New Orleans” (CBS)

-Disappointing:
“Marvel’s Agent Carter” (ABC)

-Losers (excluding repeats):
“Parks and Recreation” (NBC), “Marry Me” (NBC), “About a Boy” (NBC), “New Girl” (Fox), “The Mindy Project” (Fox)

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Ratings Breakdown:
It was a clean Tuesday overnight sweep for CBS, as usual, with its line-up of “NCIS” (#1 for the night: 11.6 rating/18 share), just renewed spin-off “NCIS: New Orleans” (9.7/ 5) and “Person of Interest” (6.4/11). Comparably, the Eye net’s overnight household advantage over distant No. 2 NBC was a hefty 136 percent.

In season-premiere news, two episodes of NBC’s perennially low-rated “Parks & Recreation” returned for its final season with a 2.6/ 4 at 8 p.m. and a 2.2/ 3 at 8:30 p.m. Both episodes ranked a distant fourth in their time periods. And hiatus-bound 9-10 p.m. comedies “Marry Me” (#4: 1.7/ 3) and “About a Boy” (#4: 2.0/ 3), which just had its sophomore season episode order slashed by two, did not fare any better. There was more positive news for NBC at 10 p.m. care of reliable drama “Chicago Fire” (#2: 4.4/ 8), which built from “About a Boy” by 120 percent and could finish neck-and-neck once again with competing “Person of Interest” in adults 18-49.

In week two news, “Marvel’s Agent Carter” on ABC dropped to a 3.3/ 5 in the overnights from 9-10 p.m., which was 25 percent below the 4.4/ 7 one week earlier. And that translated into 6.91 million viewers and a 1.9 rating/6 share among adults 18-49, based on the fast affiliate data. Comparably, retention for “Marvel’s Agent Carter” out of a Tuesday 8 p.m. edition of “Shark Tank” (#2: 5.1/ 8) was also lacking at 65 percent. Opposite “NCIS,” “Shark Tank” could be poised for victory among adults 18-49 (and other key demographics).

ABC closed the night with freshman “Forever” at a distant third-place 3.3/ 6 at 10 p.m., which was still 32 percent above failed drama “Killer Women” on the year-ago evening (2.2/ 5 on 1/14/14).

Elsewhere, Fox’s just renewed “MasterChef Junior” finished third from 8-9 p.m., with a 3.4/ 5, which should generate some interest in the key demos. And it led into typically lackluster overnight performances for comedies “New Girl” (#4: 2.2/ 3) and “The Mindy Project” (#4: 1.9/ 3) from 9-10 p.m. The CW, meanwhile, populated this second Tuesday in January with encore telecasts of “The Flash” (#5: 1.2/ 2) and “Arrow” (#5: 1.0/ 1). Speaking of The CW, yesterday’s Press Tour set visit to “Jane the Virgin” was, as Jimmie “J.J.” Walker would day, Dy-No-Mite!!!

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

Source:

Marc Berman@tvmediainsights

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