Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Advancing ‘Dancing’

With a robust Dancing with the Stars, ABC took top prize in Monday’s prime ratings, posting a 1.7 in viewers 18-49, per Nielsen’s overnights, and a 6 share. That beat runner-up NBC’s 1.5/6. 

NBC won the previous Monday with a 1.8. 

ABC saw Dancing with the Stars go up 15% to 1.5, then The Good Doctor climb 5% at 2.0. 

NBC had The Voice drop 10% to 1.9 and The Brave fall 20% to 0.8. 

Fox did a 1.0/3, as Lucifer rated a flat 0.8 and The Gifted a 1.1, up 10%. 

CBS weighed in at 0.8/3. Kevin Can Wait posted a flat 1.2 and 9JKL a 0.8, down 43% from last week, when it had a Big Bang Theory lead-in. The premiere of Superior Donuts was at 0.8, level with its season one finale, and Me, Myself and I slipped 22% to 0.7, before Scorpion was off 13% at 0.7. 

Telemundo rated a 0.7/3 and Univision a 0.5/2. 

The CW was at 0.4/1, as Supergirl scored a 0.5 and Valor a 0.2, both flat with last week and the week before.  

Michael Malone

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.