Primetime Ratings: NBC Rides ‘Voice’ to Win
By Michael Malone published

NBC seized the Monday ratings title, riding The Voice to a 1.9 score in viewers 18-49, and a 7 share. That easily beat the 1.0/4 put up by ABC.
The Voice went up 5% to 2.0 from 8 to 10, and the premiere of Ellen’s Game of Games did a 1.7.
On ABC, The Great Christmas Light Fight fell 17% to 1.0 across two hours, before The Year in Memoriam did a 0.9.
CBS was at 0.8/3, as Kevin Can Wait rated a flat 1.1 and Man With a Plan dropped 10% to 0.9. Superior Donuts slipped 11% to 0.8 and 9JKL rated a level 0.7. Scorpion fell 11% to 0.8.
Univision did a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.4/1, both same as last week.
Fox scored a 0.4/1 with repeats.
On The CW, Popstar’s Best of 2017 rated a 0.2 and The Hollywood Walk of Fame Honors did a 0.1. The network was at 0.1/0.
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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