Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With Robust ‘9-1-1’

Fox had top honors in Monday prime, with 9-1-1 leading the net to a 1.1 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That got by the 0.9/4s that CBS and NBC tallied.

ABC, Fox and NBC split the win last Monday.

9-1-1 grew 17% to 1.4 and Prodigal Son posted its regular 0.7.

CBS had Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer leading the way with his brightly lit nose at 1.5, down 12% from last year. Repeats of All Rise and Bull followed.

NBC had two hours of The Voice off 8% at 1.1 and then the premiere of craft show Making It at 0.5. Making It opened at 1.1 in summer 2018.

ABC got a 0.7/3. The premiere of The Great Christmas Light Fight did a 0.7 from 8 to 10 p.m. after it opened at 1.1 the last two seasons. The Good Doctor scored a flat 0.9.

Univision averaged a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.4/2. Univision had the premiere of Ringo at 0.5 and La Rosa de Guadalupe at 0.5, then El Dragon at 0.4. The latter two were down a tenth of a point apiece.

Telemundo had the El Sultan premiere at 0.2 and El Final Del Paraiso down 20% at 0.4. El Senor de los Cielos shot up 25% for a 0.5.

The CW posted a 0.2/1, with 0.2s for All American and Black Lightning. Both were 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.