Ratings News - 21st 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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Clean Overnight Sweep for CBS on Holiday Evening

Household Rating/Share

CBS 6.0/10
ABC 2.9/ 5
NBC 2.4/ 4
Fox 1.7/ 3

-Percent Change from the Year-Ago Evening – Sunday 4/21/13:

CBS: -15, Fox: -19, NBC: -20, ABC: -31

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-Winners:

Nothing

Honorable Mention:

“60 Minutes” (CBS), “The Amazing Race” (CBS), “The Good Wife” (CBS)

-Losers (excluding repeats):

“Bob’s Burgers” (Fox), “American Dream Builders” (NBC), “Dateline” (NBC), Hallmark Hall of Fame’s “In My Dreams” (ABC), “Crisis” (NBC), “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” (Fox)

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-Ratings Breakdown:

CBS topped this holiday Sunday, besting distant No. 2 ABC by 107 percent in the household overnights. But each of the four networks dropped year-to-year (which, of note, was not Easter Sunday). HUT levels, no doubt, were below average last night.

CBS scored a clean sweep in the overnights with its line-up of granddaddy “60 Minutes” (6.3 rating/13 share), “The Amazing Race” (5.1/ 9), “The Good Wife” (#1 for the night: 6.7/11) and on-the-fence “The Mentalist” (5.8/10), which has little to no chance of returning for season seven in the fall.

ABC replaced regularly scheduled 9-11 p.m. dramas “Resurrection” and “Revenge” last night with original Hallmark Hall of Fame movie “In My Dreams,” with Katharine MacPhee and Mike Vogel, which was a nightmare at a 3.0/ 5 (#3) from 9-11 p.m. Comparably, that was 29 percent below year-ago Hallmark movie “Remember Sunday” (4.2/ 7 on 4/21/13), and it trailed the competing aforementioned CBS dramas by 52 percent. The Hallmark movie franchise has never performed the same, unfortunately, since it exited CBS for
ABC.

Earlier in the evening on the alphabet net was the annual airing of animated special “It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown” (#2: 2.1/ 4), which was 31 percent above the 1.6/ 3 it averaged in the Sunday 7 p.m. hour on 3/31/13, and demo friendly “Once Upon a Time” (#2: 3.7/ 6 at 8 p.m.), which is a lock for renewal for next season.

On NBC, “American Dream Builders” moved into the Sunday 7 p.m. hour with a record low 1.5/ 3 (#3) -- tick, tock…the cancellation clock is ticking. And it led into also relocated “Dateline” at a sluggish 2.5/ 4 (#3) from 8-9 p.m. At 9 p.m., recent NBC drama entry “Believe” could not compete with “The Good Wife” on CBS with a distant second-place 3.3/ 5 in the overnights. But that was 10 percent above the 3.0/ 5 one week earlier. And lead-out “Crisis,” which is also on the fence for renewal, followed with a series low 2.5/ 4 at 10 p.m., which dipped by 22 percent from the 9:30 p.m. portion of “Believe” (3.2/ 5).

Fox closed the night with overall overnight erosion from one week earlier of 19 percent with its combination of animated “Bob’s Burgers” (#4: 1.2/ 2), and repeats of “American Dad!” (#4: 1.1/ 2), “The Simpsons” (#4: 1.6/ 3) and “Family Guy” (#4: 1.8/ 3) from 7-9 p.m., and episode seven of “Cosmos” A Spacetime Odyssey,” which dropped to a series-low 2.3/ 4 at 9 p.m.

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.

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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