Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With ‘Warrior’ Special
‘Love Island’ falls on CBS
NBC scored highest in Monday prime, with an American Ninja Warrior special leading the way. NBC posted a 0.5 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 3 share. That squeaked by Telemundo’s 0.4/3, with Univision just behind at 0.4/2.
The American Ninja Warrior special ran 8-10 p.m. and got a 0.5. Dateline NBC tallied a 0.4.
On Telemundo, Exatlon Estados Unidos rated a 0.4 and the two-hour Cennet finale got a 0.5 and a 0.4, up from the previous week’s 0.3
On Univision, La Rosa de Guadalupe and Medicos both got a level 0.4. The premiere of Dulce Ambicion scored a 0.3.
CBS posted a 0.3/2 and Fox a 0.2/2. CBS had comedy reruns and then Love Island fell 25% to 0.3. A Bull repeat closed out prime.
Fox had the 2015 movie Love the Coopers.
ABC got a 0.2/1 with The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons.
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The CW scored a 0.1/1. Whose Line is it Anyway? rated a flat 0.2 and Penn & Teller: Fool Us lost a tenth for a 0.1.
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.