Preliminary Ratings: Thursday 06/11/15

The NBA continues to roll over all the competition, with what could be the best numbers of the series. Once the ABC numbers are correctly distributed, the game should go over 20 million viewers and approach 8s in the demo categories. With the series tied at two games a piece, we are looking at another two games, minimum, for Sunday and Tuesday, and if needed, game seven is next Friday.

BONES finally ended its season, with little fanfare. The veteran placed 4th in its time slot, with just 4.9 million viewers. In the three demographic categories it was 2nd in A18-34, 4th in A18-49 and 4th in A25-54. WAYWARD PINES saw very small growth, week-to-week.

The BEAUTY & THE BEAST season premiere, on The CW, did little to attract viewers, drawing under one million viewers and a o.2 in the A18-34 demographic. The iHEART SUMMER POOL PARTY held the audience B&TB delivered.

NBC should just air DATELINE for three hours, on Thursday nights. AQUARIUS is not clicking with viewers at all and HANNIBAL is barely registering in the ratings. HANNIBAL was the lowest rated program, from the Big 4, including repeats. The next to lowest program drew more than twice as many viewers as HANNIBAL.

Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	14.00 million	5.2	5.2	5.6
CBS	5.10 million	0.5	0.9	1.5
CW	0.90 million	0.2	0.3	0.3
FOX	4.60 million	0.8	1.2	1.6
NBC	3.90 million	0.6	0.8	1.2

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
8:00	ABC	Jimmy Kimmel Live	8.90	2.7	2.9	3.3
8:30	ABC	NBA Countdown	10.00	3.6	3.6	3.9
10:00	ABC	NBA Finals Game 4	16.30	6.2	6.2	6.6
8:00	CBS	The Big Bang Theory [R]	7.00	0.8	1.4	2.1
8:30	CBS	The Odd Couple [R]	5.40	0.6	1.1	1.7
9:00	CBS	Mom [R]	5.10	0.4	0.9	1.5
9:30	CBS	Mike & Molly [R]	5.00	0.5	1.0	1.6
10:00	CBS	Elementary [R]	3.90	0.3	0.6	1.0
8:00	CW	Beauty & The Beast (SP)	0.90	0.2	0.3	0.3
9:00	CW	iHeart Summer Pool Party	0.90	0.2	0.3	0.3
8:00	FOX	Bones (SF)	4.90	0.8	1.1	1.5
9:00	FOX	WaywardPines	4.20	0.7	1.2	1.6
8:00	NBC	Dateline	6.40	0.6	1.2	1.7
9:00	NBC	Aquarius	3.70	0.4	0.8	1.1
10:00	NBC	Hannibal	1.70	0.2	0.5	0.7

* - in millions