Note: LateNighter’s daily ratings reports are drawn from Nielsen live-plus-same-day data and do not take include delayed and/or streaming views. They are generally posted on a two (business) day delay, which is how they are released by Nielsen.
John Krasinski helped keep The Late Show at the top of the late night Nielsen ratings heap this past Tuesday, November 12.
Headlined by the reveal of Krasinski as People’s “Sexiest Man Alive 2024,” Tuesday’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert averaged a time slot-high 1,848,000 total viewers with 207,000 P18-49, per Nielsen live-plus-same-day data. That’s a gain of +13% in total viewers and +3% among P18-49 from the night before (Monday, Nov. 11).
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! and NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon split second place at 11:35 p.m.
Tuesday’s Kimmel averaged 1,766,000 total viewers with 149,000 P18-49. That’s a gain of +30% in total viewers and +60% among P18-49 viewers from Monday night’s Veterans Day episode. Wanda Sykes, and Ben Falcone were Kimmel’s guests Tuesday. Mark Ambor performed on the program.
Tuesday’s Fallon, meanwhile, shed viewers from the night before. The Nov. 12 episode averaged 1,017,000 total viewers with 156,000 P18-49 — down -15% and -26%, respectively, from Monday’s episode. Tuesday’s Tonight Show guests were Jeff Goldblum, Lacey Chabert, and Luke Grimes.
Moving ahead to 12:35 a.m., the Tuesday, Nov. 12 episode of NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers averaged 746,000 total viewers with 127,000 P18-49. That’s down -7% in total viewers but up +14% among P18-49 from Monday’s episode. Gayle King, and Rebecca Ferguson were Meyers’ guests Tuesday.
Airing after The Late Show, After Midnight averaged 634,000 total viewers with 107,000 P18-49 on CBS. That’s up +15% in total viewers and unchanged in the P18-49 demo versus Monday’s episode. Langston Kerman, David Gborie, and Megan Gailey were Taylor Tomlinson’s guests.
Following Kimmel, the Nov. 12 edition of Nightline averaged 893,000 total viewers with only 65,000 P18-49 on ABC. That’s up +27% in total viewers and +38% among P18-49 from Monday’s episode.
Why no week-ago episode comparisons today? A week agoTuesday was Election Day, and nearly all of the late-night shows were preempted for network news coverage of the results. The exception was The Daily Show, which aired a live, hour-long special simulcast across nine Paramount-owned cable networks at 11 p.m. ET.
A week later, the Tuesday, Nov. 12 edition of The Daily Show hosted by Jordan Klepper averaged 414,000 total viewers with 108,000 viewers aged 18-49 on Comedy Central, per Nielsen live plus same day data. That’s down -30% in total viewers and -7% among P18-49 from Monday’s episode (hosted by Jon Stewart), and -56% and -56%, respectively, from the week-ago episode (the Election Night special hosted by Stewart). Klepper’s guest Tuesday night was Harvard professor and social scientist Robert Putnam.
Tuesday’s complete ratings charts follow below.
Live+SD ratings (All Viewers 2+)
| Network | Show Name | Viewers | % Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 PM | |||
| CC | The Daily Show | 414,000 | 1.11 |
| 11:35 PM | |||
| ABC | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | 1,766,000 | 6.29 |
| CBS | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | 1,848,000 | 6.66 |
| NBC | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | 1,017,000 | 3.68 |
| 12:35 AM | |||
| ABC | * Nightline | 893,000 | 4.30 |
| CBS | After Midnight | 634,000 | 3.31 |
| NBC | Late Night With Seth Meyers | 746,000 | 3.81 |
Live+SD ratings (18-49 demo only)
| Network | Show Name | Viewers | % Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 PM | |||
| CC | The Daily Show | 108,000 | 1.41 |
| 11:35 PM | |||
| ABC | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | 149,000 | 2.50 |
| CBS | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | 207,000 | 3.52 |
| NBC | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | 156,000 | 2.65 |
| 12:35 AM | |||
| ABC | * Nightline | 65,000 | 1.41 |
| CBS | After Midnight | 107,000 | 2.53 |
| NBC | Late Night With Seth Meyers | 127,000 | 2.95 |
Ratings data © The Nielsen Company, used under license.
