Comments on: Late Show with David Letterman Tops The Tonight Show Among Viewers For the Week

By: Peter46

Peter46 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:37:29 +0000

What has happened to the Tonight Show….

I miss Johnny, I watched Leno, but I would rather watch tired old Letterman than Conan. Is it my age? Just don’t understand.

By: chazz

chazz — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:39:07 +0000

It’s highly unusual for a TV show to go into repeats after three weeks, and it’s more bad news for Conan. Dave has dozens of good shows to choose five repeats from. Conan has yet to do five passable shows.

By: darlington

darlington — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:47:41 +0000

Thank you, billeroot, my point exactly – they have ratings on the books going back to 1992 and Conan’s are the lowest on record. Period.

By: billeroot

billeroot — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:02:07 +0000

I can read, you can’t. Here’s the direct quote from the article YOU LINKED TO: “this is the smallest “Tonight Show” weekly audience on record (since at least 1992).”

I repeat: Conan has posted the LOWEST RATINGS on record. What part of that don’t you understand?

By: kt7811

kt7811 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:00:51 +0000

Billeroot,

Um… can you read?

http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/06/late-show-outdraws-tonight-for-first-time-since-05.html

If by history of the show, you mean the 3 weeks since Conan took over, then yes. But in the history of the entire Tonight Show, well then sorry, you’re wrong.

By: billeroot

billeroot — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:16:08 +0000

Darlington is right – lowest ratings in the history of the show.

By: kt7811

kt7811 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:42:56 +0000

No Darlington, you simply just read the Huffington Post headline. It was the lowest numbers since 2005… the week Oprah went on Letterman. Not in the history of the show.

By: darlington

darlington — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:31:48 +0000

This is, unfortunately, a fact (look it up): Conan has garnered the lowest ratings in the history of The Tonight Show. The NBC spin is just that: spin.

By: KT8711

KT8711 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:43:32 +0000

Paul Newsome,

Um in case you didn’t notice, Dave is in repeats that week too. Yes, Conan’s new on the air, but clearly, there is some network reason for both of them being in repeats that week.

By: CB

CB — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:15:37 +0000

Wow, there are some real pieces of work on this site. I never realized there could be so many people whose lives are that worthless that they have nothing better to do than wish for someone’s failure.

Here’s the ACTUAL Rick Ludwin quote (without the pathetic spin attempt):

Rick Ludwin, NBC late-night chief, says he is “thrilled” with Mr. O’Brien’s performance so far, saying he expects the total viewer numbers “to be a continuing race” between the shows. “Conan was a little nervous the first night, but since has really settled in,” Mr. Ludwin says. “That’s when you start seeing the monologue stretch, because the laughs are bigger.”

Oh, and the week of reruns is NOT to retool the show. So much for your “real news”.

By: Paul Newsome

Paul Newsome — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:52:00 +0000

Here’s some real news: NBC is putting Conan’s show into a week of reruns — AFTER ONLY THREE WEEKS ON THE AIR — so they can retool the show. Ignore their spin-ny press releases, actions speak louder. The show is an unmitigated disaster. Even Rick Ludwin, NBC’s late night exec, called Conan “nervous” in print this week.

By: Richard Steven Hack

Richard Steven Hack — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:08:52 +0000

Yeah, but who wants a regular guy hosting a talk show? Give me a nut-case like Craig Ferguson!

Otherwise your characterizations were pretty spot on. LOL!

By: jim

jim — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:24:28 +0000

Letterman is mean old man, Conan is an annoying spaz. Kimmel is a soporific, fat Carson Daly. Fallon is like a needy, self-conscious girl. Leno was the closest to a regular guy.

By: KT8711

KT8711 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:57:31 +0000

I said this on the other post, but honestly, I expected this. Dave got the Palin bump early last week. Considering Dave had 700,000 more viewers on the night he apologized to Palin, Conan closed the gap pretty well the rest of the week.

By: tom

tom — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:34:26 +0000

nightline last night won, dave close second and conan 3rd. it was helped by the latest politico hypocrite having an affair. if conan got the gov of s. carolina on maybe he’d be back in first

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:31:30 +0000

Joe, there are Nightline numbers in the NBC press release linked above, as you can see it was third in adults 18-49 (although right behind Letterman) and viewers (although competitive) for the week.

I’d expect and ABC press release, that I will post, sometime soon today.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:26:40 +0000

How did Nightline do? Its more interesting than Dave or Conan.

By: CB

CB — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:00:38 +0000

Whatevs!

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:52:42 +0000

just what I expected.