Primetime Ratings: ‘Bachelorette’ Stays Strong to Pace ABC

ABC won the Monday prime ratings race, The Bachelorette pacing the net to a 1.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. Runner-up NBC got a 0.8/4.

The Bachelorette rated a level 1.5 from 8 to 10 p.m. and Grand Hotel slid 17% for a 0.5.

On NBC, American Ninja Warrior got a 0.9 from 8 to 10 p.m. and Dateline NBC scored a 0.7. Both were up a tenth of a point.

Fox got a 0.5/3 and Telemundo did a 0.5/2. Fox had Beat Shazam at 0.6 and So You Think You Can Dance got a 0.5, both shows flat. La Reina del Sur rated a 0.6 on Telemundo.

CBS and Univision both did a 0.4/2. CBS had a couple The Neighborhood repeats before The Code dropped 33% for a 0.4. A Bull repeat closed out prime.

The CW did a 0.2/1, with Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Whose Line is it Anyway? both at 0.2. Penn & Teller was up 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.