JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE Kicks Off Premiere Week with Biggest-Ever Opening

By: Oct. 02, 2014
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ABC's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE kicked off premiere week of the 2014-15 season (week of September 22, 2014) with its biggest-ever opening-week audience (2.893 million), jumping 19% in Total Viewers over premiere week last year. In addition, Kimmel grew for the 2nd straight year in Adults 18-49 (872,000) to its strongest opening-week performance in 7 years - since 2007.

Kimmel scored its strongest week of originals in Total Viewers in nearly 1 year and in Adults 18-49 since March 2014 - since the weeks of 11/25/13 and 3/10/14.

During premiere week of the new season, ABC's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE ranked as the #2 talk show in late-night on broadcast or cable in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49.

On Thursday (9/25/14), Kimmel dominated NBC's THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON by 22% in Total Viewers and by 15% in Adults 18-49. In fact, Thursday's Kimmel was the week's 2nd-most-watched telecast in late-night (4.141 million).



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