Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Booming ‘Bachelor in Paradise’
ABC won the Monday ratings race, as Bachelor in Paradise led the net to a 1.2 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That beat the 1.0/4 that NBC put up.
ABC had Bachelor in Paradise up 27% to 1.4 from 8 to 10 p.m. (last week’s ran for three hours), then a Good Doctor repeat.
NBC saw the American Ninja Warrior finale rise 20% for a 1.2 from 8 to 10 p.m., before an America’s Got Talent repeat.
Fox did a 0.6/3. So You Think You Can Dance ran throughout its prime. Last week’s So You Think did a 0.5.
Telemundo scored a 0.6/2, as El Senor de los Cielos led with a 0.7.
CBS was at 0.5/2. A Big Bang Theory rerun led into CBS Fall Preview at 0.7. Salvation was up 33% for a 0.4 and Elementary down 20% for a 0.4.
Univision too did a 0.5/2.
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The CW rated a 0.3/1 with repeats of Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Whose Line Is It Anyway.
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.