ABC's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE Scores Most-Watched Q1 Ever
By: Caryn Robbins Apr. 02, 2015
During the 1st quarter of 2015, ABC's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE scored its most-watched Q1 ever (2.744 million), growing its overall audience from the year-ago first quarter (+5%) for the 4th time in 5 years. In addition, Q1 2015 marked Kimmel's 2nd-most-watched quarter ever, behind only the prior 4Q 2014.
During the quarter, Kimmel delivered 3 of its 10 largest-ever weekly audiences (week of 3/9/15 - #5, week of 1/26/15 - #7 and week of 3/16/15 - #8) and posted 2 of its Top 5 most-watched single-day telecasts ever in late-night (Thurs, 3/12/15 - #4 and Mon, 2/23/15 - #5). ABC's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE finished the quarter as the #2 broadcast talk show in late-night among Adults 18-49, behind only NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. In addition, Kimmel outperformed CBS' THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN on all 13 weeks of the quarter in the key young adult demo.Jimmy Kimmel serves as host and executive producer of Emmy nominated "Jimmy Kimmel Live," ABC's late-night talk show. "Jimmy Kimmel Live" is well known for its huge viral video successes with 1.5 billion views on Youtube alone. Some of Kimmel's most popular comedy bits include - Mean Tweets, Lie Witness News, Jimmy's Twerk Fail Prank, Unnecessary Censorship, Youtube Challenge, The Baby Bachelor, Movie: The Movie, Handsome Men's Club, Jimmy Kimmel Lie Detective and music videos like "I (Wanna) Channing All Over Your Tatum" and a Blurred Lines parody with Robin Thicke, Pharrell, Jimmy and his security guard Guillermo.
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