Late Night Ratings: May 4 - 8, 2015

Last week, THE LATE SHOW surged ahead of THE TONIGHT SHOW, in grabbing more households than the NBC talker. As Letterman inches closer to his final show, viewers will be tuning in to see the veteran end a terrific career. THE TONIGHT SHOW continues to rule the A18-49 ratings, averaging 30% more than KIMMEL and doubling up THE LATE LATE SHOW.

The early morning talkers have started to be consistently competitive. THE LATE LATE SHOW is watched more more households, each night, but LATE NIGHT will draw more young viewers. After about six weeks, James Corden appears to be a good move, for CBS, allowing the show to be competitive in the 12:35 time slot.

On cable, THE DAILY SHOW continues to draw more viewers, on a nightly basis. The new NIGHTLY SHOW is even with CONAN, on TBS. Both shows average over 600,000 viewers and a 0.24 rating in the A18-49 ratings.

Series	Category	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	AVG
Tonight Show NBC	Households+	2.50	2.70	2.50	2.40	2.70	2.56
	A18-49	1.1	1.0	1.1	0.8	1.1	1.0
The Late Show CBS	Households+	3.50	2.80	2.90	2.80	2.80	2.96
	A18-49	0.7	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.5
Jimmy Kimmel Live ABC	Households+	2.20	1.70	1.90	1.90	1.90	1.92
	A18-49	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.8	0.7	0.7
Late Night NBC	Households+	1.20	1.20	1.20	1.00	1.40	1.20
	A18-49	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.6	0.5
The Late Late Show CBS	Households+	1.50	1.30	1.40	1.30	1.30	1.36
	A18-49	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
Nightline ABC	Households+	1.50	1.10	1.30	1.30	1.20	1.28
	A18-49	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.4	0.4

Series	Category	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	AVG
Conan TBS	Viewers*	0.616	0.551	0.649	0.634		0.613
	A18-49	0.23	0.19	0.25	0.28		0.24
The Daily Show Comedy	Viewers*	1.187	1.357	1.069	1.192		1.201
	A18-49	0.44	0.48	0.32	0.43		0.42
The Nightly Show Comedy	Viewers*	0.665	0.757	0.532	0.604		0.640
	A18-49	0.26	0.29	0.17	0.23		0.24

+ - household rating
* - in millions