Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins Big With ‘Bachelor’

ABC was the big winner in Monday’s prime ratings, The Bachelor pacing the Alphabets to the win. ABC had a 1.5 in viewers 18-49 across prime, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. That topped Fox’s 1.0/5.

The Bachelor did a flat 1.6 from 8 to 10 p.m. and then a 1.4 from 10 to 11.

On Fox, 9-1-1: Lone Star went up 30% to 1.3 and Prodigal Son grew 33% to 0.8. Lone Star grew 11% last week.

NBC was just behind at 0.9/4. Two hours of America’s Got Talent: The Champions did a 1.0 and a 1.1, after last week’s 1.1, before Manifest shot up 17% to 0.7.

CBS did a 0.6/3 and Univision a 0.5/3. On CBS, The Neighborhood got a flat 0.8 and Bob Hearts Abishola grew 17% to 0.7. All Rise and Bull both rated a flat 0.6.

On Univision, Ringo, Amor Eterno and Rubi all did 0.5s. Ringo and Rubi were flat and Amor lost a tenth.

Telemundo got a 0.4/2. Exatlon Estados Unidos posted a flat 0.5 and two hours of La Dona a level 0.4.

The CW was at 0.2/1. All American and Black Lightning both did a 0.2, both dramas level with last week.

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.