Primetime Ratings: Strong ‘Bachelorette’ Leads ABC to Win
ABC won the Monday ratings race, The Bachelorette pacing the network to a 1.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That topped the 0.9/4 that NBC posted.
The Bachelorette rated a flat 1.4 from 8 to 10 p.m. and the premiere of The Proposal did a 0.8.
NBC had Running Wild With Bear Grylls at a flat 0.7 and American Ninja Warrior down a tenth of a point at 1.0 from 9 to 11 p.m.
CBS and Fox both scored a 0.6/3. CBS had repeats leading into Elementary at a flat 0.6.
Fox had So You Think You Can Dance up 14% to 0.8, then a Dance repeat.
Telemundo rated a 0.6/2 on a strong El Senor de los Cielos. Univision scored a 0.5/2.
The CW did a 0.4/2. Supergirl went up 25% to 0.5 and Whose Line Is It Anyway did a level 0.3 and was followed by a Whose Line repeat.
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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.