Thursday, June 18, 2026

Monday Cable News Ratings: MSNBC’s Maddow Beats the Whole Night, Second Only for the Day to Fox’s “The Five” (at 5)

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Rachel Maddow is always golden on her weekly Monday night show.

This week was no different as Maddow topped the prime time ratings for MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News. She beat Hannity and everyone else on Fox after the sun went down.

Maddow was second only to Fox News’s “The Five” which actually is at 5pm and not prime time. It’s for shut-ins and retired people who don’t want to watch “Modern Family” reruns. Unfortunately, it’s not as funny.

Maddow lifted the whole MSNBC line up against Fox. Lawrence O’Donnell came within inches of taking Greg Gutfeld’s 10pm show.

Let’s hope Maddow is resting up for a busy season in which she may have to appear more often. Four Trump trials and the primaries will require her presence!

BTW CNN’s high mark on Monday night was Erin Burnett with 731K eyes. Anderson Cooper fell off right after her to 618,000.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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