Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Boisterous ‘Bachelor’ Finale
ABC took top honors among broadcast networks in Monday’s prime ratings, scoring a 2.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and an 8 share on a strong The Bachelorfinale.
That just got past the 2.1/8 that NBC posted.
ABC had The Bachelor finale stretching across prime, up 22% from last week at 2.2.
NBC saw The Voice down 14% from its season premiere at 2.4. Drama Good Girls was off 13% from its series opener for a 1.3.
CBS and Fox were both at 0.8/3.
CBS had Kevin Can Wait up 10% at 1.1 and Man With a Plan at a flat 1.0, then Superior Donuts off 11% for a 0.8 and Living Biblically at 0.7, down a tenth of a point from its series premiere. Drama Scorpion closed out prime for CBS at a flat 0.8.
On Fox, Lucifer was off a tenth of a point at a 0.7 and The Resident up a tenth of a point at 0.9.
Telemundo did a 0.5/2, as did Univision.
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The CW scored a 0.3/1. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow rated a flat 0.4 and iZombie was down 33% from its season premiere at 0.2.
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.