'The Bachelor' premiere highest in 3 years: Juan Pablo boost?
ABC has Juan the night! Monday’s The Bachelor premiere delivered its best debut rating in three years.
The two-hour premiere starring the show’s first Latino Bachelor, Juan Pablo, was up 17 percent from last January. The premiere scored 8.4 million viewers and a 2.7 rating among adults 18-49. That was enough to lead the evening given the modest competition. Check out EW’s recap.
Over on CBS, the network did a post-holiday two-hour block of let’s-just-finish-Hostages-already. Safe to bet the 10 p.m. episode (4.7 million, 1.0) of the freshman thriller will serve as the show’s series finale.
Fox resumed sci-fi drama Almost Human (6.2 million, 1.7). While the episode was a notch higher than its last airing in mid-December, the hour was nonetheless pretty modest.
NBC, The CW had repeats. Full chart:
| NET/TIME/SHOW | 18-49 RATING | TOTAL VIEWERS (+000) | |||
| FOX | 8-9P | ALMOST HUMAN | 1.7 | 6,202 | |
| 9-10P | SLEEPY HOLLOW | R | 0.8 | 2,747 | |
| ABC | 8-10P | BACHELOR- | P | 2.7 | 8,482 |
| 10-11P | CASTLE- | 1.8 | 8,785 | ||
| CBS | 8:00P | 2 BROKE– | RS | 1.7 | 6,834 |
| 8:30P | MOM | RS | 1.3 | 5,176 | |
| 9-10P | HOSTGES- | S | 1.1 | 5,019 | |
| 10-11P | HOSTAGES- | 1.0 | 4,663 | ||
| NBC | 8-9P | BLCKLST | RS | 0.9 | 4,496 |
| 9-10P | BLCKLST | RS | 0.9 | 3,875 | |
| 10-11P | BLACKLIST- | R | 1.1 | 4,193 | |
| CW | 8-9P | HART-DIXIE- | R | 0.2 | 740 |
| 9-10P | BEAUTY&BST- | R | 0.1 | 522 |
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