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Jimmy Kimmel Live! averaged roughly 1.7–1.9 million viewers in mid‑2025 quarters, behind Stephen Colbert’s Late Show (about 2.4 million) but ahead of or competitive with Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show in...
Fox News’ Gutfeld! has repeatedly posted than legacy network late-night shows in several recent snapshots, but the lead varies by timeframe, demographic, and single-night spikes; Nielsen-style monthly...
Stephen Colbert has publicly discussed the end of The Late Show: he announced on-stage that CBS will end the program in May 2026, has framed the cancellation as not his decision, and has offered sharp...
Available sources do not provide a direct transcript or a verified date for any remark by Stephen Colbert about Salma Hayek’s accent; the search results include episode listings showing Hayek guested ...
Late‑night linear viewership has trended sharply downward over the past decade even as the composition of the audience shifts toward younger, digital‑first viewers; Jimmy Kimmel’s show illustrates bot...
Greg Gutfeld’s program posted the largest year‑over‑year gains among the major late‑night shows in 2025 — a net increase of about +31.5% in total viewers and +24% in the demo versus Q2 2024 (LateNight...
Stephen Colbert and Greg Gutfeld show the clearest recent gains in linear late-night viewership, with Colbert posting notable quarter-to-quarter increases tied to heightened attention around his show'...
Jimmy Kimmel Live! finished 2024 as a middle-tier performer among U.S. late-night shows: it averaged roughly total viewers across reported periods and roughly in the 18–49 demo, with performance fluct...
The available analyses show that late-night TV in 2024 was led in overall nightly viewers by Greg Gutfeld’s program while Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show commanded the largest among televised audience...
Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show outperformed Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show in aggregate 2024 audience metrics: multiple final tallies place , indicating a clear lead for Colbert across quarterly and...
Jimmy Kimmel Live has experienced a steep decline in its key 18–49 demographic over the past decade, losing roughly , and now trails or closely matches rival late-night shows on that metric . Industry...