Primetime Ratings: ‘Dancing’ Premiere Gives ABC Big Win
Big start for celeb dancing show
ABC won Monday primetime easily, as the season starter for Dancing with the Stars led the Alphabets. ABC got a 1.0 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. In second was NBC at 0.5/3.
Dancing, which features Carol Baskin and Nelly among the celebrity performers, scored a 1.3 from 8 to 10 p.m. Last year’s premiere, with Sean Spicer, got a 1.0. Special VOMO: Vote Or Miss Out rated a 0.4.
NBC had two hours of American Ninja Warrior at 0.5, virtually flat with the season premiere’s 0.5 and 0.6, and Dateline NBC posted a level 0.4.
Univision was next at 0.4/2. La Rosa de Guadalupe and Medicos both got a 0.4 and Dulce Ambicion rated a 0.3. All three were flat.
CBS, Fox and Telemundo all rated a 0.3/2. CBS had comedy reruns before Love Island shot up 33% to 0.4. A Bull repeat followed.
Fox had movie Patriot’s Day.
On Telemundo, Exatlon Estados Unidos and Todo Por Mi Hija rated a flat 0.3. Enemigo Intimo 2 lost 33% for a 0.2.
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The CW got a 0.2/1 with reruns of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Penn & Teller: Fool Us.
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.