Ratings News - 11th 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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NOTE: The opinions expressed here are NOT those of SpoilerTV but of the Author of this Article, Marc Berman.

Thursday 4/10/14 Metered Markets
“Shark Tank” Lifts ABC

Household
Rating/Share
CBS 6.4/11
ABC 5.9/10
Fox 3.7/ 6
NBC 2.0/ 3
CW 0.9/ 1

-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Thursday 4/11/13:
ABC: +79, CW: +29, CBS: + 8, NBC: -23, Fox: -44

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-Winners:
“The Big Bang Theory” (CBS), “Shark Tank” (ABC), “Grey’s Anatomy” (ABC), “Scandal” (ABC)

-Losers (excluding repeats):
“Community” (NBC), “Parks and Recreation” (NBC), “”Parenthood” (NBC)

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Ratings Breakdown:
“The Big Bang Theory” led CBS to Thursday overnight victory once again, but the Eye net’s advantage over No. 2 ABC was only eight percent. Particularly beneficial to ABC was a Thursday 8 p.m. ET airing of “Shark Tank” at a second-place place 4.9 rating/8 share in the households from 8-9 p.m., which bested the series-finale of “Once Upon a Time in Wonderland” one week earlier (2.3/ 4 on April 3) by 113 percent. “Shark Tank,” which is now a definite contender for the Thursday anchor spot on ABC next season, also outdelivered year-ago occupant “Wife Swap” (3.6/ 6 on 4/11/13) by 36 percent. Pretty wonderful, Mr. Wonderful!

“Grey’s Anatomy” on ABC followed with a 6.0/10, which finished first overall in the 9 p.m. hour, followed by “Scandal” at a dominant 6.6/11 at 10 p.m. Overall, this was the alphabet net’s best Thursday of the season with regularly scheduled programming.

“The Big Bang Theory” topped the night, of course, with a 10.6/18 at 8 p.m. Next was time period dependent “The Millers” (#1: 6.4/11 at 8:30 p.m.), which slipped by 40 percent, followed by “Two and a Half Men” (#1: 6.3/10), “The Crazy Ones” (#2: 4.6/ 7) and sophomore “Elementary” (#2: 5.3/ 9) from 9-11 p.m. If CBS chooses not to renew “The Crazy Ones” (which featured a reunion of former “Mork & Mindy” stars Robin Williams and Pam Dawber last night), TBS should consider keeping it alive. This is a quality show worthy of a second season.

Next was Fox with its combination of demo friendly “Hell’s Kitchen” (#3: 3.2/ 5) and fading “American Idol” (#3: 5.4/ 9), which slipped by its year-ago 8-9 p.m. telecast (8.7/14 on 4/11/13) by 38 percent in the overnights.

Elsewhere, NBC’s line-up of “Community” (#4: 1.8/ 3), “Parks and Recreation” (#4: 1.8/ 3), a repeat of “Hollywood Game Night” (#4: 1.8/ 3) and “Parenthood” (#3: 2.5/ 4) just cannot compete. And The CW populated the evening with a repeat of “The Vampire Diaries” (#5: 0.7/ 1) into an original installment of already renewed drama “Reign” (#4: 1.1/ 2).

Source: Nielsen Media Research

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.

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