Primetime Ratings: NBC Rolls With ‘Voice’ Return
NBC took top honors in Monday’s prime ratings, scoring a 2.3 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 9 share. That topped the 1.6/6 that ABC posted. NBC had the season premiere of The Voice at a hefty 2.8, then the debut of drama Good Girls at 10 p.m. That did a 1.5.
On ABC, The Bachelor did a 1.8, up a noisy 64% from when it was against the Olympics’ closing ceremonies, and The Good Doctor did a 1.3. The last new Good Doctor rated a 1.7 pre-Olympics.
CBS was at 0.9/3 as Kevin Can Wait was down 17% to 1.0. Man With a Plan too did a 1.0 and was down a tenth of a point. Superior Donuts fell 18% to 0.9 and the premiere of comedy Living Biblically rated a 0.8, before Scorpion dropped 11% to 0.8.
Fox was at 0.8/3, with Lucifer and The Resident both posting a 0.8. Both did a 0.4 in their last airings, against the Games.
Telemundo and Univision were both at 0.5/2.
The CW scored a 0.4/1 with DC’s Legends of Tomorrow at a flat 0.4 and the season premiere of iZombie at 0.3, same as its season finale last year.
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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.