Ratings News - 25th February 2015

Today's Early Overnight Ratings

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Metered Market Tuesday Ratings
Quiet Conclusion for “Parks and Recreation” on NBC

Tuesday 2/24/15

Household
Rating/Share
CBS 8.2/13
NBC 7.1/11
ABC 3.1/ 5
Fox 2.6/ 4
CW 0.9/ 1

-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Tuesday 2/25/14:
NBC: +27, Fox: +18, CBS: – 8, CW: -36, ABC: -37

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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. These overnights are your first look at the ratings and a precursor to what could lie ahead. And we take into account other benchmarks including the expected demographic ratings, potential DVR usage, the critical acclaim (or lack of) and the social media presence.

-Winners:
“The Voice” (NBC), “NCIS” (CBS), “NCIS: New Orleans” (CBS)

-Honorable Mention:
“Fresh Off the Boat” (ABC)

-Sluggish Temporary Time Period Filler:
“Marvel’s Agent Carter” (ABC)

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

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Ratings Breakdown:
CBS led the Tuesday overnight troops, besting No. 2 NBC by 15 percent with its drama combination of “NCIS” (#1 for the evening: 10.4 rating/16 share in households), freshman spin-off “NCIS: New Orleans” (#2: 8.0/12) and “Person of Interest” (#1: 6.0/10). But the home of “The Voice,” NBC, will stand well above the competition in adults 18-49 and all the key demographics. That is a given.

A two-hour edition of the new season of NBC’s “The Voice” returned with a rock-solid 9.3/14 in the household overnights from 8-10 p.m. Comparably, this was 18 percent above the 7.9/12 for the year-ago Tuesday night performance. And the 8.7/13 in the overnights on Monday this week translated into 13.97 million viewers and a 4.1 rating/12 share among adults 18-49, based on the Live Plus Same Day data.

In series-finale news, a one-hour 10-11 p.m. edition of NBC sitcom “Parks and Recreation” rose to a season high. But a 2.8/ 5 in the overnights (3.2/ 5 at 10 p.m.; 2.5/ 4 at 10:30 p.m.) ranked third behind aforementioned “Person of Interest” on CBS (#1: 6.0/10) and “Forever” on ABC (3.5/ 6); and the overnight retention out of the 9:30 p.m. portion of “The Voice” (9.6/15) was a mere 29 percent. While you do have to give NBC credit for sticking with “Parks and Recreation” for 125 episodes, quality unfortunately is not synonymous with mass appeal.

Over at 8 p.m., the news remains positive for recent ABC sitcom entry “Fresh Off the Boat,” which was consistent at a 4.0/ 6 (#3) in the 8 p.m. half-hour. Comparably, an almost identical 4.1/ 6 in the overnights one week earlier translated into a 1.9 rating/6 share in adults 18-49 (based on the Live Plus Same Day data), which is very livable for ABC. Week two of lead-out “Repeat After Me” (which I personally think is a hoot) slipped to a 2.6/ 4 at 8:30 p.m., which was seven percent below the 2.8/ 4 opener one week earlier. Since most new shows drop 10-20 percent in week two (and since “The Voice” was not present in the time period last week), let’s see if “Repeat After Me” can maintain the 1.4/ 4 in adults 18-49 from its debut. Note to the audience: give this show a chance.

Next on ABC was the season (or series) finale of “Marvel’s Agent Carter,” which closed with a distant third-place 2.5/ 4 in the overnights from 9-10 p.m. and was not the hit ABC was hoping for to temporary replace “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD” (which returns next week). Aforementioned “Forever” at 10 p.m., meanwhile, was 30 percent above the debut of failed drama “Mind Games” on the year-ago evening (2.7/ 5).

Over at Fox was the season-finale of “MasterChef Junior” at a typical 3.4/ 5 in the overnights from 8-9 p.m. (which should translate into about a 1.8 rating in adults 18-49). But once prosperous comedy “New Girl” slipped to a 2.1/ 3 (#4) in the 9 p.m. half-hour , and that led into a sluggish 1.8/ 3 (#4) for three-year-old “The Mindy Project” at 9:30 p.m.

The CW capped off the evening with encore telecasts of special “TV’s Hottest Commercials Countdown” (#5: 1.0/ 2) and a 9 p.m. edition of “The Flash” (#5: 0.9/ 1).

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

Source:

Marc Berman@tvmediainsights

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