Live +7 Ratings: ABC's 'Forever' and 'Marvel's Agents of SHIELD' Double their ...

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For the 2nd week in a row, ABC claimed 3 of the week's Top 5 biggest broadcast gainers among Adults 18-49, while CBS and NBC had just one apiece: How to Get Away with Murder (+2.2 points) and (+2.2) tied for #2 and (+1.7) - #5.

(+100%), growing to a 2.0 rating in L+7 and to deliver a 2.9 in L+7. among Adults 18-49 (+56%), while (+43%), (+69% - tie) and (+79%) ABC's Forever doubled its L+SD Adult 18-49 rating Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. catapulted +93% over its first-reported L+SD rating Both shows scored their largest-ever playback increases among Adults 18-49. In addition, new series high in TV playback all delivered their biggest lifts of the season. black-ish hit a

With its largest playback gain this season (+79% or +1.1 rating points), new season high L+7 rating ABC's grew to a in Adults 18-49 (2.5 rating).

Growing to a 4.9 Adult 18-49 rating in L+7, the Winter finale of ABC's Scandal delivered the show's highest rating since its season premiere 7 weeks ago and HTGAWM hit a 5-week high with its Winter finale (5.1 rating) - since 9/25/14 and 10/9/14 respectively.

In the final Live + 7 Day ratings, ABC aired 5 of the week's Top 10 broadcast programs among Adults 18-49 ( the most for any network): Modern Family (5.4 rating) - #3, How to Get Away with Murder (5.1) shot up to #4 (from #11 in L+SD), (4.9) - #5 and 's (3.9) and black-ish (3.9) tied for #9 (versus #15 and #13, respectively, in L+SD).

[if !supportLists] · [endif] In Wednesday's 10pm hour, in the L+7 numbers (+4% - 2.5 rating vs. 2.4 rating). ABC's moved out of a tie with Stalker inthe L+SD Adult 18-49 ratings to beat the CBS drama for the first time ever

[if !supportLists] · [endif] in the Tuesday 9pm hour. In the L+SD ratings, S.H.I.E.L.D. trailed the CBS drama by 5-tenths of a rating point among young adults. ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. grew to a 2.9 rating among Adults 18-49 in L+7 to tie CBS' NCIS: New Orleans

[if !supportLists] · [endif] ABC's Once Upon A Time grew to a 3.6 rating with Adults 18-49 to emerge as Sunday's #1 broadcast entertainment series for the 2nd straight week , leapfrogging over Fox's The (3.5 rating).In the L+SD ratings, Once Upon A Time trailed the Fox animated show by 6-tenths of a rating point among young adults.

Season-to-Date TV Playback (9/22/14-11/16/14):

Based on L+7 ratings (2.8 rating) through 8 weeks of the 2014-15 season, ABC is #1 in Nielsen's non-sports Adult 18-49 averages , leading CBS (+12% - 2.5), the #1 biggest actual gainer in TV playback this season. Growing to a 2.8 L+7 rating among Adults 18-49 in the non-sports numbers, ABC is even year to year (2.8 for 9/23/13-11/17/13), while CBS (-11%), NBC (-11%) and Fox (-13%) are each declining. NBC (+17% - 2.4) and Fox (+33% - 2.1) by double digit margins. ABC grows by +0.9 rating points over its Live + Same Day Adult 18-49 rating (1.9 rating in L+SD to a 2.8 in L+7) in the non-sports averages, making the Net

Based on TV playback data for the 2014-15 season, ABC claims 2 of the Top 3 biggest broadcast gainers among Adults 18-49: How to Get Away with Murder (+2.3 rating points) - #1 (tie) and Modern Family (+2.2).

ABC's HTGAWM is the season's biggest gainer for any freshman series among Adults 18-49 (+2.3 rating points), topping the L+7 gain of Fox's Gotham (+1.9). In fact, the L+7 lift for HTGAWM is outdelivering the lift of last season's top freshman gainer through the same point last season, NBC's The Blacklist (+2.1).

HTGAWM is the season's #1 broadcast drama and #1 new TV show in the young adult demo (5.3 rating).

Among Adults 18-49 in the L+7 ratings, ABC has the #1 show on Wednesday with Modern Family (5.7 rating), the Top 3 dramas on Thursday with HTGAWM (5.3), (4.8) and 's (4.1) and the #1 show on Friday with (2.5).

Several ABC's returning series are seeing bigger percentage gains among Adults 18-49 from L+SD to L+7 this year than last: (+61% vs. +57%), DWTS (+21% vs. +20%), Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (+76% vs. +63%), (+30% vs. +22%), Modern Family (+63% vs. +48%), (+69% vs. +59%) and (+50% vs. +48%).

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