Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Buoyant ‘Bachelor’
ABC won a close ratings race in Monday prime, riding The Bachelor to a 1.5 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That squeaked by the 1.4/6 put up by NBC.
The Bachelor did a flat 1.6 from 8 to 10 p.m. and The Good Doctor a level 1.2.
On NBC, two hours of America’s Got Talent: The Champions, featuring a performance by kid star Angelica Hale, fell 6% to 1.6. Manifest gained 11% for a 1.0.
CBS and Fox both scored a 1.0/4. On CBS, Big Brother: Celebrity Edition premiered at 1.4; it debuted at 1.8 last winter. Magnum P.I. rated a 0.7 and Bull a 0.8, both dramas flat.
On Fox, The Resident and The Passage both did a 1.0. The Resident lost 9% and The Passage shed 23% from its premiere.
Telemundo and Univision both rated a 0.5/2.
The CW got a 0.3/1. Arrow fell 43% to 0.4 and Black Lightning lost 25% for a 0.3. Both shows benefited from crossover episodes last time out last month.
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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.