Monday TV Ratings: ‘American Ninja Warrior’ All-Star Special Leaps to Win Night
On a fairly quiet Monday, August 31, NBC’s competition series American Ninja Warrior returned with its 2020 All-Star special, which also serves as a lead-in to next week’s Season 12 premiere. The series won the night’s broadcast primetime TV lineup in both the key 18-49 demographic and total viewers. CBS’ The Neighborhood came in a close second in total viewers with 3.4 million viewers.
As far as reality dating shows, CBS’ Love Island isn’t pulling in Big Brother-level numbers as the network probably had hoped and actually dropped more than one million viewers from its Young Sheldon rerun lead-in. One bit of good news is that it did come out slightly ahead in both the key demo and total viewers when compared to ABC’s The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons – Ever!
Here’s the breakdown for Monday, August 31, 2020 (numbers are fast-affiliate based):
| Time | Show | Adults 18-49 rating | Viewers (millions) |
| 8 p.m. | American Ninja Warrior: All Stars Special (NBC) | 0.5 | 3.5 |
| The Neighborhood – R (CBS) | 0.4 | 3.4 | |
| The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons – Ever! (ABC) | 0.2 | 1.5 | |
| Movie: Love The Coopers (Fox) | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
| Whose Line Is It Anyway (CW) | 0.2 | 931,000 | |
| 8:30 p.m. | Young Sheldon – R (CBS) | 0.4 | 2.9 |
| Whose Line Is It Anyway – R CW) | 0.2 | 868,000 | |
| 9:00 p.m. | Love Island (CBS) | 0.3 | 1.6 |
| Penn & Teller: Fool Us (CW) | 0.1 | 859,000 | |
| 10 p.m. | Dateline NBC – (NBC) | 0.4 | 2.8 |
| Bull – R (CBS) | 0.2 | 2.2 |
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