Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With Robust ‘9-1-1’
Fox had top honors in Monday prime, with 9-1-1 leading the net to a 1.1 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That got by the 0.9/4s that CBS and NBC tallied.
ABC, Fox and NBC split the win last Monday.
9-1-1 grew 17% to 1.4 and Prodigal Son posted its regular 0.7.
CBS had Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer leading the way with his brightly lit nose at 1.5, down 12% from last year. Repeats of All Rise and Bull followed.
NBC had two hours of The Voice off 8% at 1.1 and then the premiere of craft show Making It at 0.5. Making It opened at 1.1 in summer 2018.
ABC got a 0.7/3. The premiere of The Great Christmas Light Fight did a 0.7 from 8 to 10 p.m. after it opened at 1.1 the last two seasons. The Good Doctor scored a flat 0.9.
Univision averaged a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.4/2. Univision had the premiere of Ringo at 0.5 and La Rosa de Guadalupe at 0.5, then El Dragon at 0.4. The latter two were down a tenth of a point apiece.
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Telemundo had the El Sultan premiere at 0.2 and El Final Del Paraiso down 20% at 0.4. El Senor de los Cielos shot up 25% for a 0.5.
The CW posted a 0.2/1, with 0.2s for All American and Black Lightning. Both were flat.
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.
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