Primetime Ratings: ABC With Buoyant ‘Bachelor’
ABC won top spot in Sunday’s ratings, riding a potent Bachelor to a 1.6 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. That beat the 1.4/6 that America’s Got Talent finale-fueled NBC tallied.
The Bachelor was up a tenth of a point at 1.9 from 8 to 10 p.m. on ABC, and The Good Doctor also grew a tenth at 1.1.
Bachelor beat America’s Got Talent: The Champions, which did a flat 1.7. Spoiler alert--magician Shin Lim, who won the last season of America’s Got Talent, won the international Champions edition. The Manifest finale slid 9% to 1.0.
Fox did a 0.9/4 and CBS a 0.8/4. Fox had The Resident and The Passage both at 0.9, Resident down a tenth and Passage level.
CBS had The Neighborhood down 15% to 1.1 and Man With a Plan off 18% at 0.9. Magnum P.I. grew 14% to 0.8 and Bull was a flat 0.7.
Univision got a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.4/2.
The CW did a 0.2/1 with repeats.
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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.