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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

TV Ratings: 'The Bachelor' Scores For ABC, Fox News Tops Cable

Cassie and Colton
An unusual ending to ABC’s long-running attempted love matches on “The Bachelor” paid off for the network.

The Associated Press reports both parts of the finale to the 23rd edition of the series hit the Nielsen company’s top 10 last week, as bachelor Colton Underwood — who started his reign as a virgin — revealed he was dating contestant Cassie Randolph.

That wasn’t initially the plan, since Underwood jumped a fence to abandon the two women who had been finalists to chase Randolph, who had left the show.

The show’s performance led ABC to its fourth weekly win in a row among viewers aged 18-to-49, the demographic its advertisers chase.

CBS won the week among all viewers, averaging 6 million people watching in prime time. ABC had 5.1 million, NBC had 4.5 million, Fox had 2.7 million, Univision and ION Television tied with 1.37 million, Telemundo had 1.1 million and the CW had 900,000.

Fox News Channel was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.33 million viewers in prime time. ESPN had 1.94 million, MSNBC had 1.82 million, HGTV had 1.28 million and History had 1.22 million.

⏩ Basic Cable Top 10 – Prime time (Total Viewers)
  1. Fox News (2,387,000)
  2. ESPN (1,935,000)
  3. MSNBC (1,868,000)
  4. HGTV (1,283,000)
  5. History (1,180,000)
  6. USA (1,114,000)
  7. Discovery (1,105,000)
  8. Hallmark Channel (1,031,000)
  9. Investigation Discovery (976,000)
  10. TBS (943,000)


⏩ ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.6 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 8.2 million viewers and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.1 million.

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for March 11-17:

1. “NCIS,” CBS, 12.08 million.
2. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 10.54 million.
3. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 10.1 million.
4. “FBI,” CBS, 8.96 million.
5. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 8.47 million.
6. “Bachelor Season Finale” (Tuesday), ABC, 8.24 million.
7. “The Bachelor” (Monday), ABC, 8.16 million.
8. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 7.84 million.
9. “The Good Doctor,” ABC, 7.78 million.
10. “This is Us,” NBC, 7.75 million.

11. “God Friended Me,” CBS, 7.73 million.
12. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 7.64 million.
13. “Survivor,” CBS, 7.54 million.
14. “American Idol” (Sunday), ABC, 7.18 million.
15. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 6.98 million.
16. “Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC, 6.58 million.
17. “Hawaii Five-0,” CBS, 6.54 million.
18. “The Neighborhood,” CBS, 6.44 million.
19. “Magnum P.I.,” CBS, 6.05 million.
20. “New Amsterdam,” NBC, 5.99 million.

TV Newscheck reports viewer support for long-time host Alex Trebek, who on March 6 revealed that had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, helped make Jeopardy the top-rated game show in the session ending March 10.

Although the veteran quiz show scored a five-week high 6.9 live-plus-same-day national Nielsen, it still had no answer for February sweep champ — and usual ratings leader — Judge Judy, which jumped to a 7.5 and continued to outperform all syndicated shows for the 35th week in a row.

Elsewhere, Wendy Williams returned to her talk show after taking two months off to tend to illness and injury. That ignited a 36% increase from the previous week of reruns to a new season-high 1.5 for the program, which was enough for fourth place in the category.

⏩ TALK SHOWS
Dr. Phil  3.1 +3%
Live with Kelly and Ryan  2.4 NC
Ellen DeGeneres  1.8 -18%
Wendy Williams  1.5 +36%
Maury (NBCU) 1.4 NC

⏩ COURT SHOWS
Judge Judy  7.5 +4%
Hot Bench 2.5 +9%
People’s Court  1.4 -7%
Judge Mathis  1.0 NC
Divorce Court  0.7 NC

⏩ GAME SHOWS
Jeopardy  6.9 +1%
Wheel of Fortune  6.6 NC
Family Feud  6.5 +2%
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire  1.8 +20%
Funny You Should Ask  0.6 +20%

⏩ MAGAZINE SHOWS
Inside Edition  3.3 +3%
Entertainment Tonight  3.2 -3%
Access  1.4 NC
TMZ  1.3 -7%
Extra  1.2 NC

⏩ OFF-NET SITCOMS
Big Bang Theory  4.7 -2%
Last Man Standing  2.3 NC
Modern Family  2.0 NC
Two and a Half Men  1.5 NC
The Goldbergs  1.5 NC

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