Primetime Ratings: NBC Rides ‘Voice’ to Victory

NBC secured the Monday ratings prize, a down but still strong The Voice leading to a 1.3 score in viewers 18-49, according to the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That topped the 0.8/3 that both ABC and Fox put up.

The Voice slipped 6% to 1.5. The premiere of Running Wild with Bear Grylls scored a 0.9.

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For ABC, Dancing with the Stars was down 9% from its opener at 1.0. The Crossing was good for a flat 0.5.

On Fox, Lucifer rated a 0.7 and The Resident a 0.9, both up a tenth of a point from last week.

CBS did a 0.7/3. The Kevin Can Wait finale, which saw Kevin get his old band back together, was up 25% to 1.0 and Man With a Plan was a flat 0.8. Superior Donuts rated a level 0.7 and was followed by a Big Bang Theory repeat. Elementary closed out prime at a flat 0.6.

The CW rated a 0.4/1. Supergirl was off 20% to 0.4 and iZombie went up 50% to 0.3.

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.