Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Boisterous ‘Bachelorette’

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ABC won top spot in Monday ratings, The Bachelorette leading the net to a 1.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That beat the 0.8/4 that NBC rated.

The Bachelorette went up 15% to 1.5 from 8 to 10 p.m. and the premiere of Grand Hotel got a 0.7.

On NBC, American Ninja Warrior got a level 0.9 and Dateline NBC grew 17% to 0.7.

Fox did a 0.5/3 as Beat Shazam posted a flat 0.6 and So You Think You Can Dance slid 17% to 0.5.

Telemundo did a 0.5/2 and Univision a 0.4/2.

CBS did a 0.4/2 with reruns.

The CW scored a 0.2/1. The premiere of Penn & Teller: Fool Us rated a 0.3, same as last year’s premiere, and the starter for Whose Line Is It Anyway got a 0.2, off a tenth from last year’s opener

Michael Malone
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.