Most other series held steady.
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Maybe it’s just premature holiday TV fatigue, but Monday’s episode of
The Bachelorette logged season lows for ABC.
On the first night of the 4th of July week, the two-hour episode handed its network an easy win in both the key demo (and among total viewers). It was off by nearly 15 percent from the previous three weeks’ score, a first for what's shaping up to be a particularly steady season of the dating franchise. All told, The Bachelorette averaged a 1.2 rating among adults 18-49 — and 5.3 million viewers.
Lead-out The Proposal was steady with a 0.7 rating among adults 18-49 for its third episode.
Sporadic originals littered the rest of the broadcast dial, with NBC putting out a new episode of Running Wild With Bear Grylls. It held flat with another 0.6 rating among adults 18-49. CBS was again the only network to bother with scripted efforts on Monday. Salvation and Elementary each pulled a 0.4 rating among adults 18-49, a week-to-week dip for the latter.
The CW was unmoved. The network had new episodes of Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Whose Line Is It Anyway?. The comedies each averaged a 0.3 rating in the key demo.