Primetime Ratings: ‘Voice’ Paces NBC
The Voice led the way for NBC Monday with a 2.1 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, down 5%, while Blindspot rated a 1.4, up 8%.
NBC did a 1.9 for the night, with a 6 share. Next up was ABC at 1.5/5, then CBS at 1.3/4, Fox at 0.9/3 and The CW at 0.4/1.
On CBS, Mike & Molly returned to a 1.3 before a Big Bang Theory repeat. The season finale of Scorpion rated a 1.6, up 7%, while NCIS: Los Angeles tallied a flat 1.2.
On ABC, Dancing With the Stars did a 1.8, up 13%, while Castle posted a 1.1, up a tenth.
Fox had a Gotham repeat before the Lucifer finale, which rated a flat 1.3.
On CW, Reign did a 0.3 (it signed off to a 0.4 last spring) and Jane the Virgin a flat 0.4.
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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.