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, 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.