Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Booming ‘Bachelor’ Closer

ABC won the Tuesday prime ratings race, with the finale of The Bachelor pacing the Alphabet network. ABC’s 1.9 score in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and 9 share, easily beat NBC’s 0.9/5.

The Bachelor shot up 14% from the night before for a 2.4 from 8 to 10 p.m. For Life grew 33% to 0.8.

NBC had Ellen’s Game of Games at a flat 0.9 and This Is Us dropped 21% for a 1.1. New Amsterdam posted a flat 0.7.

CBS got a 0.8/4 and Fox a 0.6/3. CBS had NCIS at 1.0 and FBI at 0.8, then FBI: Most Wanted at 0.6. All three lost a tenth of a point from their last airings.

Fox had The Resident down 13% at 0.7 and Empire at a flat 0.6.

Univision rated a 0.4/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/2. On Univision, Ringo lost 20% for a 0.4 and Amor Eterno was a flat 0.5, then Sin Miedo a la Verdad got a 0.4, level with its premiere.

On Telemundo it was Exatlon Estados Unidos at a flat 0.4 and La Dona down 25% to 0.3, then Operacion Pacifico at a level 0.3.

The CW had a 0.3/1. The Flash lost 25% for a 0.3 and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow got a flat 0.2. 

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.