Primetime Ratings Monday: ABC on Top With Booming 'Bachelor'
Telemundo Nielsens climb thanks to season finales
ABC had the winning score in Monday’s prime, with a booming The Bachelor setting a hot pace. ABC scored a 1.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. That squeaked by Fox, which had a 1.1/6.
Ratings were pretty strong for the night. Two hours of The Bachelor rated a 1.4 on ABC and The Good Doctor got a 0.7. Both were up a tenth from last week.
On Fox, 9-1-1 rated a 1.2, level with its premiere, and 9-1-1: Lone Star lifted 11% to 1.0.
CBS posted a 0.6/4 and NBC a 0.6/3. CBS had The Neighborhood at 0.9 and Bob Hearts Abishola at 0.7, both up a tenth of a point. All Rise and Bull both got a level 0.5.
On NBC, Ellen’s Game of Games got a 0.6 and The Wall a 0.5, the pair flat. A Weakest Link rerun closed out prime.
Telemundo rated a 0.4/2 and Univision a 0.3/2. Telemundo had the El Domo del Dinero finale at 0.3 and the Todo Por Mi Hija season-ender at 0.5. Also with a season finale was Falsa Identidad at 0.4. All three were up a tenth from last week.
Univision had Vencer El Desamor down 20% to 0.4, Imperio de Mentiras at a flat 0.3 and Dulce Ambicion 50% larger at 0.3.
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The CW tallied a 0.2/1. All American went down 25% from its premiere to a 0.3 and a Batwoman repeat followed.
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.