BACHELOR IN PARADISE opened with a bounce.
DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2).
Ratings analysis follows the chart.
ABC: BACHELOR IN PARADISE premiered at 1.4, 0.4 higher than its 2015 start (which aired on a Sunday), and steady with the 2014 premiere. It nevertheless gave MISTRESSES a lower lead-in than that show had been getting from THE BACHELORETTE on Mondays, and the drama was down a tenth or two from its usual level to 0.6.
NBC: AMERICA’S GOT TALENT was up 0.1 from last Tuesday to 2.4, and RUNNING WILD gained 0.3 from Monday’s season premiere to 1.4.
FOX: The 2-hour season finale of COUPLED was at 0.4, steady with last week’s hour.
CBS: ZOO added 0.1 to 0.8, sandwiched between 0.8/0.7 procedural reruns.
CW: Local baseball preemptions, including one in NY, may shift the current numbers, which have 2 episodes of WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY at 0.5, and MADTV at 0.4.
Tonight’s network event is ABC’s CMA MUSIC FESTIVAL: COUNTRY’S NIGHT TO ROCK special. Freeform airs season finales of BABY DADDY and YOUNG & HUNGRY.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
The Comparisons chart will return next week.
COMING SATURDAY: Complete coverage of Summer Olympics ratings from Rio, starting with audience estimates for Friday night’s Opening Ceremony.
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