Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins Despite ‘Voice’ Drop
NBC won the top spot in Monday prime ratings, The Voice leading the net to a 1.4 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That beat the 1.1/5 that Fox got.
The Voice fell 15% to 1.7 from 8 to 10 p.m. and Enemy Within dropped 20% to 0.8.
On Fox, The Resident lost 10% for a 0.9 and 9-1-1 returned to a 1.2, down 14% from its last airing late last year.
ABC did a 1.0/4 and CBS a 0.8/3.
For ABC, American Idol scored a 1.1 after its 1.3 the night before and The Fix premiere rated a 0.7. Attorney Marcia Clark is behind that legal drama.
On CBS, a Big Bang Theory repeat led into Man With a Plan, which grew 29% to 0.9. More comedy reruns led into Bull down a tenth at 0.7.
Telemundo and Univision both did a 0.4/2.
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The CW rated a 0.3/1. Arrow got a 0.3 and the Black Lightning finale a 0.2, both shows flat.
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.