Monday TV Ratings: ‘American Ninja Warrior’ All-Star Special Leaps to Win Night

Jim Halterman September 1, 2020, 2:55 pm

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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!

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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