Stephen Colbert Beats Jimmy Fallon in Late-Night Ratings
by EG
All of that heat for Stephen Colbert came at just the right time. In the last full week of the 2016-17 broadcast season, CBS' The Late Show with Stephen Colbert managed to top NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as the most-watched late-night talk show on broadcast.
An obvious first for Colbert, who struggled in his first year on The Late Show, it's a first for CBS since 1995. That's the last time its late-night entry bested a full season of The Tonight Show. (Of course, that's excluding the weird 2009-10 debacle when Conan O'Brien briefly took on the role of Tonight host, to middling results, and Jay Leno returned halfway through the year.)
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