Part 1 of the finale of ABC’s The Bachelorette swept aside the competition in the Monday night ratings. The dating show aired the first part of its fifteenth season curtain call to a season-high 1.9 rating in the key 18-49 demographic and a season-high total viewership of 7.15 million.
Its closest competitor on the night was American Ninja Warrior on NBC, which came second in the 8 p.m. slot with a 0.8 rating and 4.64 million total viewers. Both Love Island on CBS and Beat Shazam on Fox suffered a little as a result, posting figures of 0.4 and 0.5 respectively. It seems likely that The Bachelorette will repeat the feat tonight when it airs the second part of its finale.
Elsewhere on a solid night for ABC, Grand Hotel came in with a season-high 0.7 rating of and 3.1 million total viewers for its seventh episode. That viewership figure is the highest for the Eva Longoria-produced series since episode 2 which aired just over a month ago. The news wasn’t quite so positive for Fox, where Beat Shazam hit a series low in rating and viewership.
