Part 1 of ABC's protocol busting/fence hopping The Bachelor (2.2, 8.00M) season finale topped in the demo Monday with a season high and bested '18's finale in total viewers. The Good Doctor finale that followed (1.4, 7.767M)  also snagged season highs in both metrics and stood as Monday's No. 1 scripted show in total…

The two-hour season finale of NBC’s America’s Got Talent: The Champions (1.7 rating in the adults 18-49 demo, 10.53M viewers) was the most watched show on Presidents Day Monday in primetime, even in the demo but setting a season high as it wrapped its debut run. The NBC competition series split the nightly spoils with…

ABC has handed early renewals to drama series The Good Doctor and A Million Little Things and veteran unscripted series Shark Tank. The Good Doctor has been picked up for a third season, A Million Little Things for a second and Shark Tank for an 11th. The Good Doctor, from Sony Pictures TV and ABC Studios, is…

The Good Doctor executive producer Daniel Dae Kim is stepping in front of the camera on the popular ABC medical drama.  The former Hawaii Five-O co-star is set for a key recurring role on The Good Doctor, from Sony Pictures TV and ABC Studios. Kim will play SPOILER ALERT Dr. Jackson Han, a brash new Chief of Surgery…

NBC's The Voice (1.5, 7.79M) ticked down a tenth in the demo and 4% in total viewers but even so finished the night as the No. 1 Big Four program in both metrics. Following the singing competition, a special one-off Deal or No Deal broadcast (1.0, 5.431M). in advance of its CNBC debut Wednesday, came in just shy of Man…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about Monday night’s episode of The Good Doctor. The intense fall finale of The Good Doctor starts with a surprise love affair and then gets dark with a viral outbreak which leads to lots of lives on the line. It was a very intense episode to end the year. Early in the…

NBC’s two-hour The Voice  (1.7 rating in the adults 18-48 demo, 8.958 million viewers) topped Monday’s Big 4 competition in total viewers and the demo. Following the singing competition, NBC’s Manifest (1.1, 6.100M) ranked No. 1 at 10 PM in the demo, though with a season-low rating pending afternoon updates. ABC’s 10…

On a generally stable night, NBC's The Voice (1.8 rating in the adults 18-49 demo, 9.33 million viewers) topped the Big 4 in in every key ratings way Monday, though it ticked down a tenth week-to-week in the demo. After the singing competition, A Very Wicked Halloween special (1.0, 4.01M) couldn’t scare up…

2nd UPDATE Oct. 10: The saga of the Monday Oct. 9 primetime ratings took another unexpected turn this morning when Nielsen revised those odd official Live+same ratings for The Good Doctor from 1.2 rating in 18-49 and 7.477 million viewers to a 1.1 and 7.176 million viewers. Nielsen served a head-scratcher yesterday…

After the Live+3 ratings for Premiere Week came in, there was one series, ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder, that posted a three-digit ratings lift from Live+Same Day, 100% in adults 18-49. After four days of Live+7 data, including all of Premiere Week’s big L3 percentage gainers, six shows more than doubled their…

Following an impressive Live+same day debut, NBC's new drama Manifest was even more impressive in its Live+3 delivery. After three days of playback, the missing plane series’ L+SD viewership increased by a whopping  +5.7 million viewers (from 10.4 million to 16.1 million, +55%). That was the third largest absolute…

Beau Garrett is clocking out as hospital attorney Jessica Preston on ABC’s The Good Doctor. The surprise exit comes ahead of the premiere of season 2 on Sept. 24. Garrett is the second series regular to depart the show. In April, Deadline exclusively reported that original cast member Chuku Modu, who played surgical…