Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With ‘Bachelor’
ABC was the Bachelor-fueled big winner in Monday prime ratings, posting a 1.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That topped the 1.1/4 put up over at CBS.
The Bachelor grew 29% to 1.8 across two hours, before The Good Doctor went up 6% to 1.7.
On CBS, Kevin Can Wait went up 18% to 1.3 and Man With a Plan grew 33% to 1.2. Superior Donuts climbed 38% to 1.1 and 9JKL blew up 43% to 1.0, before Scorpion went up a tenth of a point to 0.9. New episodes of those shows last aired in December.
Fox and NBC were both at 1.0/3. On Fox, The Gifted went up 43% to a 1.0 across two hours.
On NBC, The Wall grew 20% to 1.2 and Better Late Than Never went up 25% 1.0, then The Brave climbed 40% to 0.7.
The CW rated a 0.4/1. Supergirl went up 20% to 0.6 and Valor did a flat 0.2.
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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.