Good news: ABC won Monday night ratings with The Bachelorette accepting the rose for the top numbers of the evening, holding steady with 5.5 million viewers and a 1.5 adults 18-49 Live+same day rating. As for the Eva Longoria-produced new series Grand Hotel, the news isn’t as good. It wasn’t as grand of a debut as…

Facing atypical competition from a displaced-by-the-NBA-finals Bachelorette on ABC, NBC’s summer stalwart America’s Got Talent (1.5 adults 18-49 rating, 9.3 million viewers in Live+same day) was off a tenth in the demo from last week but again won Tuesday night in viewers and 18-49. The Bachelorette (1.3., 4.7…

ABC’s The Bachelorette (1.5 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 5.49 million viewers) edged out NBC’s Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals (1.4, 5.00M) for top honors in the non-time zone adjusted fast nationals for Monday’s primetime, which also saw the summer premiere of Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance. The St…

The Dayton, OH, tornado that took at least one life, injured dozens, knocked out power and damaged and destroyed numerous homes and businesses wasn’t serious enough to merit interrupting Monday night’s episode of The Bachelorette, according to some fans on social media, and one Dayton meteorologist had enough. "I was…

NBC's Memorial Day broadcast of the opening game of the Stanley Cup Final (1.5 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 5.15 million viewers) skated past its previous four years in overall crowd but slid slightly in the demo, early data indicate. Meanwhile, ABC's 8-10 PM The Bachelorette (1.1, 4.68M) gained in overall…

NBC's The Voice (1.2 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 7.85 million viewers) was Monday’s night's most watched Big 4 broadcast and tied ABC's The Bachelorette (1.2, 4.51M) for tops in the demo. The singing competition hit a seven-week high and equaled its best demo rating since April 15. Week 2 of Bachelorette…

Ellen Pompeo, star of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, doubled down today on her lambasting of Mike Fleiss, creator and EP of ABC’s The Bachelor, and his show, responding to a commenter on her Twitter page that she “had to call it out.” That response specifically addressed the show’s racial makeup (on an earlier tweet, Pompeo…

NBC's The Voice (1.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 7.60 million viewers) topped total viewers Monday in primetime with a 2.9 million edge over its closest competitor, the Season 15 launch of ABC's The Bachelorette (1.3, 4.67M). But Hanna Brown’s debut on ABC’s dating competition drowned out NBC's singing…

ABC is ready for even more “Summer Fun and Games” and dating drama this year. Along with setting a June 20 series premiere date for Reef Break and slotting several other new and returning series today, the network is expanding its slate of game shows to three nights a week and making The Bachelor franchise last all…

Khloe Kardashian is furious about rumors she’s considering signing up for The Bachelorette after her recent breakup with Cleveland Cavaliers player Tristan Thompson. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star shut down rumors she was in talks to join the ABC reality dating series after The Bachelor and Bachelorette…

Amazon is going global in a big way with the launch of 20 new and returning international series including titles from the likes of Amy director Asif Kapadia as well as a Japanese version of The Bachelorette. It has ordered a raft of scripted and non-scripted titles from Germany, Italy, Spain, India, Japan and Mexico…

CNBC is focusing on real estate as a programming growth area, with three new original series on that theme joining the primetime lineup in May. The business network made the announcement during NBCUniversal’s day of cable network presentations at TCA winter press tour. Listing Impossible follows superstar real estate…