Primetime Ratings Monday: ABC Wins With Booming ‘Bachelorette’

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ABC won the Monday ratings race, with The Bachelorette leading the way. ABC scored a 0.9 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That easily beat the 0.3/2 put up by CBS, NBC and Univision. 

The Bachelorette season finale is Dec. 22. It got a 1.2 across two hours, up from last week’s 1.0 and 0.9. The Bachelorette led into a rerun of CMA Country Christmas

Ratings were weak on the competition. CBS had comedy repeats and Kid of the Year at 0.2, then a Bull rerun. 

NBC had reruns of Dr. Seuss’s The Grinch Musical and Weakest Link

On Univision it was Vencer El Desamor down 20% to 0.4 and Imperio de Mentiras at a flat 0.3, then Dulce Ambicion off 33% to 0.2.

Fox and Telemundo both scored a 0.2/1. Fox had Next up a tenth for a 0.2 and a Cosmos: Possible Worlds repeat. 

On Telemundo it was El Domo del Dinero at a flat 0.2 and Todo Por Mi Hija down 25% to 0.3. Falsa Identidad got a level 0.2. 

The CW rated a 0.1/1. Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer and Greatest Holiday Commercials Countdown both got a 0.1. 

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.