Preliminary Ratings: Thursday 02/26/15
HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER, this falls hottest new series, closed out its fiorst season with decent numbers. The crime drama's two hour finale drew 9.0 million viewers and a 2.8 rating in the A18-49 demographic. It was second in the 8 p.m. hour, and won the 9 p.m. hour, in the demo ratings. Compared to the season premiere, which collected 14.3 million viewers and a 3.9 demo, was down 28% in the demo and lost 5.3 million viewers. HTGAWM is still a viable, solid series for ABC, but it lost a lot of steam over the 15 episodes.Week two of THE ODD COUPLE slipped a bit, from last week's premiere. It lost an additional 11% of its lead in audience, dropped a total of 2.6 million viewers, but is down just 10% in the demo. Last night's numbers are on the money with how MOM performed, back on February 5th, in its last post BIG BANG appearance.
Speaking of mom, now at 9:30, it did very well, considering its new placement. It only lost 8% of its lead in audience and maintained 100% of the demo. If these numbers can stay at these levels, CBS' Thursday night schedule is not in bad shape for the fall of 2015.
FOX was mostly flat, from last week's ratings, as both AMERICAN IDOL and BACKSTROM hauled in the same A18-49 ratings. And, NBC is a huge non factor on the night, with the two new dramas pulling the worst numbers of the night, excluding The CW.
Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:
ABC - 8.5 million viewers, 2.6 rating in A18-49
CBS - 8.7 million viewers, 2.2 rating in A18-49
CW - 0.7 million viewers, 0.3 rating in A18-49
FOX - 6.5 million viewers, 1.5 rating in A18-49
NBC - 5.0 million viewers, 1.1 rating in A18-49
| Time | Net | Program | Viewers* | A18-49 | +/- |
| 8:00 | ABC | Grey's Anatomy | 7.50 | 2.2 | |
| 10:00 | ABC | How To Get Away With Murder (SF) | 9.00 | 2.8 | 20% |
| 8:00 | CBS | The Big Bang Theory | 16.30 | 4.5 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | The Odd Couple | 11.00 | 2.8 | -33% |
| 9:00 | CBS | The Big Bang Theory [R] | 8.90 | 2.1 | -19% |
| 9:30 | CBS | Mom | 8.20 | 2.1 | -8% |
| 10:00 | CBS | Victoria Secret Swim Special | 4.00 | 1.0 | -51% |
| 8:00 | CW | The Vampire Diaries [R] | 0.80 | 0.3 | |
| 9:00 | CW | Supernatural [R] | 0.70 | 0.2 | -13% |
| 8:00 | FOX | American Idol | 9.30 | 2.1 | |
| 9:00 | FOX | Backstrom | 3.80 | 0.9 | -59% |
| 8:00 | NBC | The Slap | 3.60 | 0.7 | |
| 9:00 | NBC | The Blacklist | 7.90 | 1.8 | 119% |
| 10:00 | NBC | Allegiance | 3.60 | 0.8 | -54% |
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