Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins Easily on Powerful ‘Voice’
NBC was the easy winner in the Monday ratings race, putting up a 1.6 in viewers 18-49, per Nielsen’s overnight ratings, and a 6 share. The Voice climbed up 12% to 1.9, before The Wall did a 1.1. That game show had a 1.4 in its last fresh airing in February.
Second was ABC at 1.2/4, as Dancing With the Stars started things off with a 1.5, down 6%, before Quantico posted a flat 0.6.
CBS had a 1.0/4. Kevin Can Wait fell 8% to 1.1 and Man With a Plan did a flat 0.9. The season finale of Superior Donuts scored a level 0.9 and The Great Indoors was off 13% to 0.7, before Scorpion grew 10% to 1.1.
Fox had a 0.9/3. Gotham and Lucifer both did a 0.9. Both had 1.0s a week before.
The CW had a 0.5/2. Supergirl rated a 0.6 and Jane the Virgin a 0.3. Both were up a tenth of a point from the previous week.
Among the Spanish-language players, Univision had a 0.8/3, while Telemundo did a 0.3/1.
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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.