Monday Overnights: ‘The Bachelorette’ Leads ABC to Victory

MONDAY, JULY 16, 2018

Household Rating/Share
ABC: 3.7/ 7, NBC: 3.1/ 6, CBS: 2.0/ 4, Fox: 1.8/ 3, CW: 0.9/ 1

Note: Comparisons to the year-ago evening are not available.

-Ratings Breakdown:
Perennial summer favorite “The Bachelorette” led ABC to Monday overnight victory, as usual. It scored a 4.4 rating/8 share in households from 8-10 p.m. But recent alphabet net reality entry “The Proposal” dropped the ball at 10 p.m., with a third-place 2.3/ 4 at 10 p.m. Comparably, that was 48 percent below “The Bachelorette” and it trailed competing “Dateline” on NBC (#1: 3.3/ 7) and “Elementary” on CBS (#2: 2.5/ 5) by 30 percent and 8 percent, respectively.

On NBC, Emmy nominated “American Ninja Warrior” got a boost by moving back into the 8-10 p.m. block, with a 3.1/ 5 in households.

Elsewhere, sophomore drama “Salvation” on CBS could not compete, with a distant third-place 1.8/ 3 at 9 p.m. “So You Think You Can Dance” on Fox remained diluted with a 2.2/ 3 in the 8 p.m. hour (opposite a 1.0/ 2 for “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” on The CW). And The CW led out of “Penn & Teller” with a modest 0.8/ 1 for “Whose Line is it Anyway?” in the 9 p.m. half-hour. The rest of the evening was all repeats.

What follows are the household overnight ratings for Monday, July 16 broken out by half-hour:

8:00 p.m.
ABC – “The Bachelorette”: 4.6/ 8 (#1)
CBS – “TKO: Total Knockout” (R): 1.9/ 4 (#4)
NBC – “American Ninja Warrior”: 2.9/ 5 (#2)
Fox – “So You Think You Can Dance”: 2.2/ 4 (#4)
CW – “Penn & Teller: Fool Us”: 1.0/ 2 (#5)

8:30 p.m.
ABC – “The Bachelorette”: 4.4/ 8 (#1)
CBS – “TKO: Total Knockout” (R): 1.7/ 3 (#4)
NBC – “American Ninja Warrior”: 3.0/ 5 (#2)
Fox – “So You Think You Can Dance”: 2.1/ 4 (#4)
CW – “Penn & Teller: Fool Us”: 1.0/ 2 (#5)

9:00 p.m.
ABC – “The Bachelorette”: 4.4/ 7 (#1)
CBS – “Salvation”: 1.8/ 3 (#3)
NBC – “American Ninja Warrior”: 3.2/ 5 (#2)
Fox – “9-1-1” (R): 1.5/ 3 (#4)
CW – “Whose Line is it Anyway?”: 0.8/ 1 (#5)

9:30 p.m.
ABC – “The Bachelorette”: 4.4/ 8 (#1)
CBS – “Salvation”: 1.8/ 3 (#3)
NBC – “American Ninja Warrior”: 3.1/ 5 (#2)
Fox – “9-1-1” (R): 1.4/ 2 (#4)
CW – “Whose Line is it Anyway?” (R): 0.7/ 1 (#5)

10:00 p.m.
ABC – “The Proposal”: 2.3/ 4 (#3)
CBS – “Elementary”: 2.5/ 4 (#2)
NBC – “Dateline”: 3.2/ 6 (#1)

10:30 p.m.
ABC – “The Proposal”: 2.2/ 4 (#3)
CBS – “Elementary”: 2.5/ 5 (#2)
NBC – “Dateline”: 3.4/ 7 (#1)

Source: Nielsen Media Research