Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Boisterous ‘Bachelor’
ABC was the big winner in Monday prime ratings, as the finale of The Bachelor paced the net to a 1.9 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and an 8 share. In second was NBC at 1.6/7.
The Bachelor closer grew 10% to 2.2 from 8 to 10 p.m. and The Good Doctor finale went north 27% to 1.4.
On NBC, The Voice got a flat 2.0 from 8 to 10 p.m. and The Enemy Within went up a tenth of a point to 1.0.
CBS and Fox both got a 0.7/3. On CBS, The Neighborhood fell 17% to 1.0 and Man With a Plan posted a level 0.7. Magnum P.I. grew 17% to 0.7 and a Bull repeat closed out prime.
On Fox, The Passage’s finale took up all of prime. The show lost a tenth of a point.
Univision posted a potent 0.6/3 as the two-hour Amar A Muerte finale got a 0.7.
Telemundo did a 0.4/2.
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The CW scored a 0.3/1. Arrow skyrocketed 50% to 0.3 and Black Lightning did a flat 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.