Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Robust ‘Bachelor’

ABC had the top rating in Monday prime, as The Bachelor paced the net to a 1.4 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. That got by the 1.2/6 that NBC posted.

The Bachelor fell 5% to 1.8 from 8 to 10 p.m. and The Good Doctor scored a flat 0.8.

NBC had two hours of The Voice at 1.5 and Manifest at 0.7, both shows flat.

Fox got a 0.6/3 and CBS a 0.5/3. Fox had 9-1-1: Lone Star at a flat 0.9 and a Prodigal Son repeat.

On CBS it was reruns across prime.

Univision got a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.4/2. On Univision it was Ringo at a level 0.5 and two hours of Amor Eterno at 0.5 and 0.4, after last week’s 0.5.

On Telemundo, Exatlon Estados Unidos got a flat 0.5 and La Dona and Operacion Pacifico both rated a 0.4, La Dona flat and Operacion up a tenth.

The CW posted a 0.2/1. All American rated a 0.3 and Black Lightning a 0.2, both dramas flat. 

Michael Malone

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.