NBC's 'Tonight Show,' CBS' 'Late Show' and ABC's 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' are running behind fall 2019 in the early going.
The start of the 2019-20 for TV season has seen a couple of trends continue in late night — for good and ill.
First, the bad news: Like most of the primetime shows that lead into them, same-day ratings for network late-night shows have largely fallen.and ABC'sare averaging a combined 1.05 rating among adults 18-49 and 6.76 million viewers. That's down from a combined 1.31 in the 18-49 demo and 7.28 million viewers at the same time a year ago, declines of 20 percent in the demo and 7 percent in viewers.have also dropped, from a combined 0.53 and 2.
On the plus side, all three 11:35 p.m. shows had better 18-49 numbers in the week of Sept. 30 than they did the previous week, with The Tonight Show and The Late Show also growing in total viewers.also improved their total audiences and the two NBC shows ticked up in adults 18-49 as well. The two-week averages don't have any delayed viewing factored in, so those numbers will inevitably rise: Indeed, per CBS,added about 650,000 viewers with three days of catch-up, bringing its total to 3.91 million.
Relative to one another, however, the late-night shows are in pretty much the same position as they were this time last year. Aided by a post-NFL Sunday show on Oct. 6, The Tonight Show currently leads the season rankings in adults 18-49 with a 0.38 same-day average to The Late Show's 0.35 and Jimmy Kimmel Live's 0.32 . , meanwhile, has a sizable lead in total viewers, averaging 3.11 million to 1.84 million for. Colbert's Sept. 30 and Oct.
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