Primetime Ratings: ‘Bachelorette’ Stays Strong as ABC Wins
ABC was the top scorer in Monday ratings, putting up a 1.3 in viewers 18-49, according to Nielsen’s overnights, and a 5 share. That was a tenth of a point better than NBC. The two split the win a week ago.
The Bachelorette scored a 1.6 for ABC, same as last week. The premiere of Somewhere Between, with Paula Patton playing a local news producer in San Francisco helping the police to hunt down a serial killer, did a 0.6.
NBC did a 1.2/5, with American Ninja Warrior at a flat 1.4. The premiere of Midnight, Texas, spawned from a book series from Charlaine Harris, rated a 0.9.
Fox was at 0.6/2. So You Think You Can Dance scored a 0.7 and Superhuman a 0.5, both level with last week’s ratings.
CBS scored a 0.5/2, with repeats throughout prime.
The CW did a 0.2/1. A Supergirl repeat led into a new Whose Line Is It Anyway? at 0.3, up a tenth of a point from last week.
Among Spanish-language networks, Telemundo did a 0.6/3 and Univision a 0.5/2.
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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.