‘American Idol’ And ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Wrap With Tuesday’s Top Ratings
May 22, 2018
‘American Idol’ And ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Wrap With Tuesday’s Top Ratings
ABC took the final Monday of the 2017-18 TV season on the finale strength of American Idol (1.6 demo rating, 8.65 million viewers) and Dancing with the Stars: Athletes (1.1, 8.67M).
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NBC’s two-hour The Voice (1.5, 8.61M) controlled the 8-9 PM hour, when ABC aired an abbreviated one-hour Dancing with the Stars finale.
But ABC’s Idol took over the demo lead at 9 PM, while running neck and neck with NBC’s singing show in total viewers in that hour.
At 10 PM, Idol pulled a lap ahead of NBC’s Running Wild with Bear Grylls (0.7, 3.11M) and CBS’s Elementary (0.5, 4.15M)
With Idol the night’s No. 1 show in the demo, and DWTS:A tops in total viewers, ABC won the night with a 1.5 demo rating and 8.66M viewers. NBC came in No. 2 (1.2, 6.77M).
CBS (0.8, 5.01M) came in third off a schedule that began with its best showing: 8 PM’s The Big Bang Theory repeat 1.1, 6.30M), and slid from there: Man With a Plan finale (1.0, 5.66), another Big Bang retread (1.0, 5.46M), Mom redux (0.8, 4.33M), into Elementary.
Fox (0.6, 2.35M) conceded the night with its 8-10 PM 2018 Miss USA Pageant (0.6, 2.35M). CW (0.4, 1.42M) trailed with Supergirl (0.5, 1.77M) and iZombie (0.3, 1.08M).