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Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With ‘Bachelor’ Finale

ABC won the Tuesday prime ratings race, as The Bachelor finale led to a 1.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and an 8 share. That got by the 1.3/6 that NBC tallied. Part 2 of The Bachelor swan song got a 2.3, up a tenth from Part 1 the night before, and the premiere of Videos After ...

‘MasterChef Jr.’ premieres way down on Fox

Chris Harrison, Cassie and Colton Underwood

ABC won the Tuesday prime ratings race, as The Bachelor finale led to a 1.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and an 8 share. That got by the 1.3/6 that NBC tallied.

Part 2 of The Bachelor swan song got a 2.3, up a tenth from Part 1 the night before, and the premiere of Videos After Dark, featuring home videos with an edgier twist than America’s Funniest Home Videos, a 0.8. Bob Saget hosts.

On NBC, Ellen’s Game of Games fell 14% from its last time out for a 1.2 and This Is Us ticked up 6% to 1.8, before New Amsterdam rated a flat 1.0.

CBS got a 0.9/4. NCIS slipped 8% to 1.1 and FBI grew 11% to 1.0, before NCIS: New Orleans dropped 13% to 0.7.

Fox did a 0.7/3, with the premiere of MasterChef Jr. taking all of prime. The show premiered at 1.3 last year.

The CW rated a 0.4/2. The Flash was at 0.5 and Roswell, New Mexico at 0.2, both series down a tenth of a point.

Telemundo and Univision both got a 0.4/2. 


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