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On the third night in his new 11:35 PM time slot, Jimmy Kimmel garnered his highest viewership so far and beat both The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and Late Show With David Letterman in the key adults 18-49 demo. Although Kimmel’s total Thursday audience of 3.167 million was up over Wednesday’s 2.859 million and his Tuesday debut’s 3.097 million, Leno topped last night with 3.4 million and Letterman was second with 3.289 million. However, in the 18-49 demo, Kimmel’s 1.241 million was up solidly – 32% over Tonight Show’s 938,000 and 34% over Late Show’s 929,000. On Kimmel’s first night in his new slot, Tonight Show drew 1.084 million adults 18-49 versus Kimmel’s 887,000 and Letterman’s 683,000.
Over the first three days in his new slot, Kimmel has led Leno by a slight 3% among adults 18-49 and Letterman by 23%. In Nielsen’s metered markets last night, Kimmel got 2.7/7 in household results compared to Leno’s 2.5/7 and Letterman’s 2.6/7. In 25 markets with local people meters, Kimmel pulled in a 1.2/6 among adults 18-49, with Tonight Show and Late Show getting a 0.7/3.
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give it a week and things will be back to normal. Leno on top, Letterman, then Kimmel. (of course Simpsons reruns on FOX beating them all in most markets)
what’s clear is that Jennifer Anniston does not bring viewers, with all the hype as his first guest, it was his lowest ratings of the week. When the dust settles the Tonight show will be back on top. I expected his bump to be much higher.
I’m really happy for Kimmel. I know a lot of people on this site don’t seem to like him, but I think the movement away from the Coke-or-Pepsi-type landscape of Leno/Letterman, and their ancient and totally tedious feud and played-out personalities, is a good thing for late-night: a tired format that desperately needs fresh personalities and perspectives.
Jimmy is a terrible interviewer. This has never been his strong suit.
Jimmy has skits that seemed strained. Somehow, I never, ever envision any of his skits getting the iconic status of 90s David Letterman, dropping crap like watermelons off a roof, or Johnny Carson doing Carnac the Magnificent, or old Arsenio’s woof.
Jimmy has the full-on love by ABC for reasons that escape me. The person I feel bad for his Conan because it probably kills him — or should — the Jimmy has become this big star, vacationing with the likes of Jennifer Anniston, and, meanwhile, Conan barely registers on whatever channel to which he has been condemned.
Jimmy is about the closest thing to seeing what Affirmative Action looks like for White Men in America because ABC has stuck by him when his early ratings would have gotten more talented folks canned.
Sad state in late-night TV. Sigh.
Who could ever hope to top “Arsenio’s woof”.
Never watched Kimmel before but after watching the opening segments of his three shows this week I would say that he is not in the same league as Letterman or Leno.
His monologue consists of very few actual jokes. He just stands there with his smug smart-ass attitude and introduces film clips that others on his staff have put together – or clips from other TV shows (e.g. Honey Boo Boo). Not very original or very funny.
What is so funny about viewers submitting videos of themselves hugging their TV’s? Twice this week he ran the “lie witness news” segment when once a week would be enough for this tired concept (I suspect the “dimwits” interviewed on the street are actually actors).
Not only is Kimmel not in the same league as Leno / Letterman he doesn’t have an ounce of the talent that Jimmy Fallon has. Fallon delivers a rapid-fire monologue with lots of jokes so you are sure to get a few good laughs. His timing and delivery is spot-on and he seems to have trained himself away from the bad habit he used to have of cracking up in the midst of delivering a joke. Fallon also does brilliant spot-on impersonations, including impersonations of singers. If he plays a pre-recorded clip he is actually in it. On top of everything Fallon comes across as a nice guy which is all-important if you want to be successful on TV (probably the main reason Leno has always beat out Letterman – he comes across as a nicer guy).
What the article fails to mention is last nights musical guest on JKL was Bruno Mars – probably the hottest performer in music right now. I should hope that JKL would win the demo with a guest like that! Bruno Mars will make a repeat performance to night so they should end the week with good numbers.
The late night TV ratings game is a marathon not a sprint!
Lets see what JKL’s ratings look like in six – twelve months from now. Conan O’Brien’s debut on TBS pulled in over 4 Million viewers (despite so few homes having TBS) now look at his ratings? Love him or hate him you have to admit Conan is far more talented and original then Jimmy Kimmel.
It’s time for Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon to entertain us. At 11:30pm.
Lots oif old thinkers on this site.
Kimmel is underrated, particularly on this site, he’s often very funny and actually has some good writers which is amazingly rare on network tv these days. Letterman hasn’t been funny in at least 15 years, it’s amazing the way people pretend that it’s still 1995 and don’t call him out on the crapfest that is his show nowadays.
I’ve never been a fan of Leno’s but even people who are think that he hasn’t been the same since the whole Conan fiasco. Fallon can be funny when he does characters/impressions but he’s terrible at anything else, his show is awful. Ferguson seems like a really nice guy but I don’t see why we need to import unfunny hosts from Scotland, surely “Late Night Glasgow” could use a host like him. Conan is still pretty good but he wasn’t very good as the tonight show host and deserved to be fired.
Letterman and Leno are dinosaurs. They need to retire — soon. America must watch them to fall asleep quicker. Kimmel and Fallon may sometimes fail, but at least they try. As for Craig Ferguson — has anyone watched him lately? Totally bizarre and unfunny. Maybe this is what passes for comedy in Scotland.
As in the fable, the tortoise will beat the hare in the long run.
I have watched Kimmel a few times and after five minutes, I am looking for the remote.
Jay nor David have anything to be concerned about from Kimmel long term.
After a few months, Jimmy will look like the ass he is for his nasty, jealous attention seeking words against Jay. All the while Jay keeps it classy and apparently will let his ratings do the responding for him.
I haven’t watch leno for over a year now!
all he does is photoshop videos and put someone head on it, you kinda already expected that!
also his sidekick makes those “high tone” fake laughs is really annoying! like leno talks at 50dB, his sidekick make those fake laugh at 75dB! it’ like someone talking at theater, so annoying!
Leno, Letterman and Fallon are unwatchable. I’ve watched Kimmel since he started 10 years ago. I do miss the absolutely craziness of those early days but Kimmel just has fun with his guests. So does Ferguson. The other shows have become formulas that prevent any spontaneity. Talk about memorable moments: the Handsome Men’s Club, I’m F*cking Ben Affleck, Hottie Body Hump Club, Movie The Movie, Unnecessary Censorship plus a host of oddball characters he collected over the years. Name anything comparable from the other shows in recent years. Obviously humour is completely subjective but I love Kimmel and Ferguson. It’s great to see Kimmel in his new time slot. I can only hope he keeps building a loyal audience.