A week after its heralded and highly-rated return to late night, “ Jimmy Kimmel Live! ” headed to Brooklyn for a week’s worth of shows — and continued to lead late night in total viewers and adult 18-49.
According to ABC, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” averaged 2.2 million viewers and a 0.22 rating with adults 18-49 for the week of Sept. 29. That put it ahead of time period competitors “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (1.96 million viewers, 0.13 adults 18-49) and “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” (1.09 million viewers, 0.09 adults 18-49).
Of course, that’s down from the previous week’s unusually huge numbers due to interest in how Kimmel would mark his return after being suspended by Disney/ABC. On Sept. 23, “ Jimmy Kimmel Live” returned to the air after several days off with 6.3