Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Consistent ‘Bachelorette’

ABC got the title in Monday prime ratings, The Bachelorette pacing the net to a 1.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. In second was NBC at 0.8/4.

The Bachelorette scored a flat 1.5 and Grand Hotel fell 14% from its premiere to 0.6.

NBC had American Ninja Warrior at 0.9 and Dateline NBC at 0.7, both level with last week.

Fox and Telemundo both scored a 0.5/3 and CBS and Univision a 0.4/2.

Fox had Beat Shazam at 0.6 and So You Think You Can Dance got a 0.5, both shows flat.

Telemundo had Betty en NY at 0.5 and La Reina del Sur at 0.6, both flat with last week.

CBS had repeats throughout prime.

The CW got a 0.2/1. Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Whose Line Is It Anyway? both rated a 0.2. Penn & Teller was down a tenth and Whose Line was flat. 

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.