Primetime Ratings Monday: ABC on Top With ‘Dancing’ Finale
Season-ender goes up as ‘Bachelorette’ takes title
ABC won the Monday ratings battle, the Dancing with the Stars finale giving the network the win. ABC got a 0.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. That was just ahead of NBC’s 0.7/4.
The Dancing finale got a 0.9 from 8 to 10 p.m. Kaitlyn Bristowe, formerly of The Bachelorette, won. The Good Doctor scored a 0.6. Both were up a tenth from last week.
On NBC, The Voice also went up a tenth to 0.9 for two hours. Weakest Link got a flat 0.5.
CBS scored a 0.6/3. The Neighborhood lost 11% from its season premiere for a 0.8 and Bob Hearts Abishola tallied a flat 0.6. All Rise and Bull both got a 0.5, All Rise down a tenth and Bull flat.
Fox, Telemundo and Univision all posted a 0.3/2. On Fox, LA’s Finest and Filthy Rich both got a 0.3, Finest flat and Filthy up a tenth.
On Telemundo, El Domo del Dinero got a 0.2 and Todo Por Mi Hija a 0.4, the pair level with last week. Falsa Identidad shot up 50% to 0.3.
On Univision, Vencer El Desamor got a 0.4 and Imperio de Mentiras a 0.3. Dulce Ambicion got a 0.2. All three were flat.
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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.