Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With High-Flying ‘Bachelor’
ABC won prime ratings Sunday, as The Bachelor paced the net to a 1.5 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. That easily topped the 0.9/4 that NBC posted.
The Bachelor shot up 19% to 1.9 from 8 to 10 p.m. and The Good Doctor grew 13% to 0.9.
NBC had two hours of America’s Got Talent: The Champions up 22% to 1.1 and Manifest at a level 0.7.
Fox got a 0.8/4 and CBS a 0.7/3. On Fox it was the debut of 9-1-1: Lone Star, with Rob Lowe and Liv Tyler, and Prodigal Son at its usual 0.7.
On CBS it was The Neighborhood down 11% at 0.8 and Bob Hearts Abishola down 25% at 0.6. All Rise went up 20% to 0.6 and Bull was a flat 0.6.
Univision rated a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.4/2. On Univision, it was 0.5s for Ringo and Amor Eterno and the El Dragon finale. Ringo was flat while Amor lost a tenth and El Dragon gained a tenth.
On Telemundo, the premiere of Exatlon Estados Unidos got a 0.5 and La Dona went up 33% to 0.4. El Senor de los Cielos got a flat 0.4.
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The CW scored a 0.2/1. All American and Black Lightning both did a 0.2. All American was flat and Black Lightning lost a tenth.
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.