Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Advancing ‘Dancing’

With a robust Dancing with the Stars, ABC took top prize in Monday’s prime ratings, posting a 1.7 in viewers 18-49, per Nielsen’s overnights, and a 6 share. That beat runner-up NBC’s 1.5/6. 

NBC won the previous Monday with a 1.8. 

ABC saw Dancing with the Stars go up 15% to 1.5, then The Good Doctor climb 5% at 2.0. 

NBC had The Voice drop 10% to 1.9 and The Brave fall 20% to 0.8. 

Fox did a 1.0/3, as Lucifer rated a flat 0.8 and The Gifted a 1.1, up 10%. 

CBS weighed in at 0.8/3. Kevin Can Wait posted a flat 1.2 and 9JKL a 0.8, down 43% from last week, when it had a Big Bang Theory lead-in. The premiere of Superior Donuts was at 0.8, level with its season one finale, and Me, Myself and I slipped 22% to 0.7, before Scorpion was off 13% at 0.7. 

Telemundo rated a 0.7/3 and Univision a 0.5/2. 

The CW was at 0.4/1, as Supergirl scored a 0.5 and Valor a 0.2, both flat with last week and the week before.  

Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.