Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Robust ‘AGT’
NBC got the top spot in Monday prime ratings, with America’s Got Talent: The Champions paving the way to a 1.5 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. That beat the 1.4/6 that ABC rated.
America’s Got Talent went up 6% to 1.7 from 8 to 10 p.m. and Manifest grew 22% to 1.1.
On ABC, The Bachelor did a flat 1.8 from 8 to 10 and was followed by a Good Doctor rerun.
Fox did a 1.0/4 and CBS a 0.9/4. On Fox, The Resident did a 1.0 and The Passage a 0.9, both shows level with last week.
On CBS, it was The Neighborhood up 30% to 1.3 and Man With a Plan at a flat 1.1. Big Brother: Celebrity Edition fell 27% to 0.8 and Bull dropped 13% to 0.7.
Univision did a 0.5/2 with Mi Marido Tiene Mas Familia at 0.6. Telemundo did a 0.4/2.
The CW rated a 0.3/1. Arrow and Black Lightning both scored a 0.3. Arrow was down a tenth and Black Lightning was 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.