Kimmel, Gutfeld & More Late Night Ratings: Which Show Got Big Boost?
What To Know
- NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers was the only late-night show to post gains in both total viewers and the key demo for the week of March 9.
- CBS’ The Late Show and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! remained the top two network shows at 11:35 pm.
- Fox News’ Gutfeld! led all late-night shows in total viewers and the demo at 10 pm.
It’s been a quiet March for late-night so far, with only one show posting gains in both total viewers and the key Adults 18-49 demo, while many others slipped in both categories.
According to LateNighter, citing Nielsen Live+3 ratings data, NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers was the only show to see increases in total viewers and the demo. The show, which airs in the 12:37 am slot, averaged 1.01 million total viewers (up 3 percent on the week before) and 154,000 demo viewers (up 2 percent) for the week of March 9.
Elsewhere, CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert continued to hold onto the top spot at 11:35 pm, averaging 2.40 million total viewers and 190,000 demo viewers. However, this was down 2 percent in total viewers compared to the week prior and down 13 percent in the key demo.
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! held the second spot at the 11:35 pm hour with 2.17 million viewers (down 5 percent) and 228,000 demo viewers (down 13 percent).
NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon trailed in the 11:35 pm slot with 1.357 million total viewers and 197,000 demo viewers. However, it was the only 11:35 pm broadcast that did not show declines. The show was steady in total viewers and up 3 percent in the 18-49 demo.
The biggest viewership was over on cable, where Fox News’ Gutfeld! once again drew the largest audience, with 3.53 million total viewers and 300,000 demo viewers in the 10 pm slot. However, the show was down 5 percent in both measured categories compared to the week before.
Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live averaged 329,000 total viewers (down 10 percent on the week prior) and 84,000 demo viewers (down 8 percent) at the 10 pm hour.
ABC’s Nightline was up 2 percent in total viewers, averaging 998,000 in the 12:37 am hour. However, it was down 14 percent in the key demo, averaging 106,000 adults 18-49.
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Gutfeld! comes on at 10pm Monday-Friday. We watch it religiously; and enjoy his guests and his roundtable approach to the topics discussed. The others...nothing but liberal commentary and Trump bashing. Super Happy Colbert is finished; too bad he's still making millions. CBS should have given him a severance package and said 'adios'! And Kimmel? I wouldn't give him the time of day if my life depended on it; maybe I'd give him a box of Kleenex to wipe his tears; seems he likes crying on Nat'l TV. What a loser!!!
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absolutely agree. and the left is loosing their minds that everyday Americans are no longer blindly following these democrat extremists. American? Yup. Gay? Yup. Republican? Yup. Yup. Yup.
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Gutted is a really lousy version of SNL!!!
They point fingers and make fun of people ! Like at people like Selena Gomez, looking gorgeous, no politics, and they had a BALL making fun of her!
I completely miss the point but hear the cruelty LOUD and CLEAR!!!!
And they think they are uproariously funny, as I scratch my head.
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lol. You are delusional. Gomez is very politically motivated, she's very much of the left. so not sure where that came from.
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Being Unaware of every person’s political views doesn’t make me delusional!
It makes me unbiased in my view of the person!😊
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No it just makes you look like an idiot.
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Yes! Gutfeld is unwatchable because of the junior-high level humor and vicious insults. I'm politicaly and socially conservative. I don't like hate-spewing from either side.
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Gutfeld is political too... You're just listening to what you wanna hear. Out of the other three, Fallon is probably the least political. Jay Leno stayed out of politics too. But whereas you can criticize Kimmel and Colbert for being over political, so is Gutfeld. It's just what you wanna hear.
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You mean its sane, compared to the ileft thats gone insane.
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Kimmel and Colbert are not just political, they are left wing extremist political hacks. Would be really hard to argue that fact.
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Boohoo
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Gutfeld is the only one that talks truth. The other ones aren’t funny anymore. All they do is trash, the mega supporters and Trump. Be comedians again and critics.
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Oh my it’s maga, I love the jokes. They make fun of a shameless bunch of idiots. We either laugh or cry. Our country is so messed up.
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Fallon gets 1.3 million viewers and is still on? Kimmel 2.17 million together is what Gutfeld gets and doesn't get $15 mil a year. Colbert gets about 2.4 million. They choose to bash Trump every night so they lose half the country. Gutfeld isn't shown throughout the country and kicks ass
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How do you read the results and Kimmel is 40% behind gutfield and yet you call them equal.
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Actually, those three split pretty much the same audience during the same time slot. Together they have nearly twice the audience as Gutfield, who has zero real competition in his time slot.
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For what Kimmel said about Melania, he should be fired. But I want to see him cry one more time before they drop him for all time.
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Gutfeld isn't a late night TV show; it's on during prime time.
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10pm is plenty late night for those who work. If he was on a 11 an hour later he still would draw a bigger audience. Hes killing them by over a million viewers.
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How you feel isn’t important. It’s how the rating are done. He’s correct, 10 pm is a prime time show.
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facts dont care about your feelings GoCaps
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Gutfelt is a hack. He’s funny, if you’re a toddler with no sense of humor.
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Not really a fair comparison. Broadcast networks like ABC, NBC, and CBS are free to anyone with a TV, while Gutfeld! airs on Fox News, a cable channel, so the audience is limited to people who pay for cable or streaming. Even with that smaller pool, it’s still outperforming shows on broadcast networks. That says a lot.
For context, average viewership:
• CBS: 4.5–9.1M
• NBC: 4.2–7.2M
• ABC: 4–6.9M• Fox News: 2.4–2.6M
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Jimmy Kimmel is absolutely what we all need right now. He carries the banner of freedom.
He's funny, witty, and uses comedy to call out the 34-count convicted felon.
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I love these liberal doofuses who feel the need ti disparage Gutfeld. A show at 10pm overlaps with sporting events so if there's a big game on Gutfeld's ratings will be less.
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So Gutfield has zero real competition in his time slot.
Whereas Colbert, Kimmel, and Fallon are all in the same time slot, and share pretty much the same audience … together they have nearly twice the viewership as Gutfield.
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Gutfeld is on once. Fallon, Colbert, Kimmel are on TWICE.
Late night on both coast.
Apples/Oranges
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Not really a fair comparison. Broadcast networks like ABC, NBC, and CBS are free to anyone with a TV, while Gutfeld! airs on Fox News, a cable channel, so the audience is limited to people who pay for cable or streaming. Even with that smaller pool, it’s still outperforming shows on broadcast networks. That says a lot.
For context, average viewership:
• CBS: 4.5–9.1M
• NBC: 4.2–7.2M
• ABC: 4–6.9M
• Fox News: 2.4–2.6M
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They all suck. Carson was King; no political BS. Incredibly funny and entertaining. Next guy - Late Late Show with Craig Furguson. Only host that could actually keep up with Robin Williams.
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I am suspicious of Gutfeld's numbers. Since Fox is a cable station and Fox news caters to a specific niche I wonder if that 3 million number could be the same viewers who's TV is on the same station all day. Which means that Fox's viewer ship is actually lower than what the metrics show.
As for the other 3, they have to compete with many "free" tv offerings. People who watch CBS, ABC or NBC or any other networks and wish to watch free late TV have to change the channel, were as Fox viewers tend leave that station on all day. It's like they are zombies. They believe that Fox's entertainment is always real and always truthful. Fox and Gutfled work off the same narrative wether it's factual or not.
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You are right , not a fair comparison. But wrong about the reason. Moronic , mean- spirited , Trump kiss -ask Gutfeld ‘s show airs at 10 pm. People have to stay up til 1130 for the others.
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There are so many clueless Americans!
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The truth being Trump is your God. lol
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Add the three others together, and they are killing him. It’s just that liberals are allowed to like diversity while maga is only allowed to stay in the trump worshipping box.
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Guttfield has no one competing against him in his time slot, whereas, in the 11:35 time slot you have Colbert, Kimmel and Fallon splitting up the viewership, which in total is 6 million viewers, which is 2.5 million more than Guttfield, and then there is Seth Myers with 1 million viewers. Guttfield is as funny as a bag of hammers and most Republicans have drank the Kool-Aid.
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Any man that meets the Pope is okay in my book my book. Yep he's a peach.... Both of them.
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Google just stated Gutfeld has 3.5 million viewers. When comparing the free over the air shows Gutfeld held a 1 million viewers lead.
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You obviously didn’t watch Carson during the Nixon years—where he had Harry Bellafonte host political activists and turned public opinion against Nixon during Watergate.
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People could choose to do something else - like: read?
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Gutfeld is very political but doesn’t try to disguise it. But Kimmel and Colbert r political hacks, on free over the air tv stations, on shows that were never designed to be political. The hosts, because of limited talent and ability, turned them into liberal pulpits. They’ve ruined late nite television.
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Guess you never listened to Carson? He was always political. It was just that the other potus had senses of humor and weren’t interested in stifling free speech
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I hope he says more.
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Losing
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another sage to himself
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