Primetime Ratings Tuesday: ABC Wins With Buoyant ‘Bachelorette’
‘This Is Us’ stays strong on NBC
ABC won the Tuesday ratings battle, with The Bachelorette setting the pace. ABC got a 1.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. In second was NBC at 0.9/6.
Last Tuesday, the networks had Election Day coverage.
The Bachelorette got a 1.6 across two hours, up 28% from two weeks before, and special Country Strong 2020 a 0.4.
NBC had The Voice up a tenth to 1.1 and This Is Us at 1.3, virtually flat with its two-hour premiere October 27, then Transplant down 17% for a 0.5.
CBS got a 0.4/2 and Fox a 0.3/2. CBS had reruns of NCIS and FBI before The FBI Declassified got a flat 0.3.
Fox had a Cosmos: Possible Worlds rerun and Next slid 33% to 0.2.
Telemundo and Univision also scored 0.3/2s. On Telemundo, El Domo del Dinero went up a tenth to 0.2, Todo Por Mi Hija also grew a tenth for a 0.4 and Falsa Identidad tallied a flat 0.2.
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On Univision, Vencer El Desamor got a 0.4 and Imperio de Mentiras a 0.3. Dulce Ambicion got a 0.2. All three were flat.
The CW rated a 0.1/1. Swamp Thing and Tell Me a Story both scored a 0.1. Swamp Thing lost a tenth and Tell Me a Story stayed level.
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.