Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With John Bolton Interview
Soft night for ratings; John Legend special doesn’t do much on ABC
ABC had the top score in Sunday prime, with a John Bolton interview pacing the net to a 0.5 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 3 share. CBS and NBC were runners-up at 0.3/2.
It wasn’t much of a night for broadcast ratings, the networks airing lots of reruns.
ABC had a Celebrity Family Feud rerun and a John Legend special, A Bigger Love Father’s Day, got a 0.4. The Room Where It Happened, which saw Martha Raddatz interview former national security advisor Bolton about his book about working in the White House, did a 0.7. A Match Game rerun followed.
CBS had 60 Minutes down 14% to 0.6 and two-hour special United We Sing at 0.3 and 0.2. An NCIS: New Orleans repeat followed.
NBC had Hollywood Game Night up 50% to 0.3 and The Titan Games and America’s Got Talent reruns.
Univision scored a 0.2/2. Aqui y Ahora and Sal y Pimienta both were down a tenth at 0.2, with movie Transporter 3 in the middle.
Fox got a 0.2/1 with comedy reruns.
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Telemundo posted a 0.1/1. It had movies 47 Ronin and The Code.
The CW did a 0.1/0 with repeats.
Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.