Primetime Ratings: ‘Bachelor’ Down But Still Paces ABC
ABC won the prime ratings race Monday, as Bachelor in Paradise led the network to a 0.9 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, ad a 5 share. That topped the 0.8/4 that NBC scored.
Bachelor in Paradise fell 8% to 1.2 from 8 to 10 p.m. and Grand Hotel posted a flat 0.5.
On NBC, American Ninja Warrior did a 0.9 and Dateline NBC a 0.6, both shows up a tenth from last week.
CBS got a 0.5/2 and Fox a 0.4/2.
CBS was in repeats. Fox had two hours of So You Think You Can Dance down 20% to 0.4.
Telemundo also rated a 0.4/2. Exatlon Estados Unidos was down 20% to 0.4 and El Final del Paraiso tallied a level 0.5. Preso No. 1 grew 33% to a 0.4.
Univision rated a 0.3/2. La Reina Soy Yo did a 0.4 and Juntos, El Corazon Nunca Se Equivoca and Sin Miedo a la Verdad both a 0.3. All three were flat.
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The CW was at 0.2/1. Penn & Teller: Fool Us went up a tenth to 0.3 and Whose Line Is It Anyway? did a flat 0.2, then musical comedy I Ship It a 0.1.
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.