Primetime Ratings: ‘Bachelor’ Beats ‘AGT’ For ABC Win
ABC got the top score in Monday’s prime ratings, a robust The Bachelor pacing the net to a 1.5 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. That snuck by the 1.4/6 that NBC posted.
The Bachelor did a flat 1.8 from 8 to 10 p.m. and The Good Doctor fell 9% to 1.0.
On NBC, America’s Got Talent: The Champions dropped 11% to 1.6 and Manifest slipped 11% too, to 0.9.
The Bachelor and AGT tied the week before.
CBS got a 1.0/4 and Fox a 0.9/4.
On CBS, The Neighborhood climbed 17% to 1.4 and the return of Man With a Plan a 1.1, up a tenth from its previous season premiere. Big Brother: Celebrity Edition fell 8% to 1.1 and Bull did a flat 0.8.
On Fox, The Resident went north 11% to 1.0 and The Passage rated a level 0.9.
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Telemundo and Univision both scored a 0.4/2.
The CW rated a 0.3/1. Arrow got a 0.4 and Black Lightning a 0.3, both dramas flat.
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.