Primetime Ratings: ‘Bachelor’ Premiere Drives ABC

Bachelor-driven ABC seized ratings honors Monday, putting up a 1.2 score in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. That beat the 0.8/3 posted by CBS and the 0.8/2 that NBC rated. 

The premiere of The Bachelor did a 1.5 from 8 to 10 p.m. and was followed by a Good Doctor repeat. The Bachelor opened to a 1.8 last January. 

CBS had repeated comedies before a SEAL Team rerun. 

On NBC, The Wall scored a 0.8 and Better Late Than Never at 0.7 across two hours. Better Late rated a 1.1 Dec. 11. 

Fox was at 0.7/2. Lucifer did a 0.7 and The Gifted a 0.7. Both were down 13% from their last original airings. 

Univision rated a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/1. 

The CW did a 0.2/1, with a Supergirl repeat, then Valor at a flat 0.2.

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.