In its Monday premiere, TBS’ George Lopez show, “Lopez Tonight” averaged 1.7 million viewers on TBS (3.2 million total including the simulcast on TNT and truTV). The simulcast across multiple networks was only for the premiere. On Tuesday, it dropped down to 1.4 million, Wednesday it hit a TBS high with 2 million viewers and Thursday it hit is low with 1.3 million. James Hibberd has some analysis on week 1 and suggests the show is holding up OK.
By way of comparison to what TBS was airing from 11p-12A last week:
Monday 11p : “My Name is Earl” (1.166 million)
Monday 11:30p “My Name is Earl” (981,000)
Tuesday 11p: “Seinfeld” (931,000)
Tuesday 11:3op: “Seinfeld” (1.045 million)
Wednesday 11P: Seinfeld (1.135 million)
Wednesday 11:30p Seinfeld (942,000)
Thursday 11p: “Seinfeld” (843,000)
Thursday 11:30p Seinfeld (926,000)
The good news is it easily bested 10+ year old “Seinfeld” reruns and “My Name Is Earl” reruns in a heavily promoted first week. If “Lopez Tonight” improves or merely retains the margins it held over reruns in the first week a couple of months down the road, TBS will surely claim success. But I wouldn’t be looking for any press releases from TBS declaring George Lopez the new king of late night.
Well hold on lets wait a little bit!!!!
Do you have the list of numbers for Daily Show, Colbert, Tonight Show, Late Show? I’m curious how this affected other viewerships, if it did at all.
Roland, click the Late Night link in the white nav bar above. The NBC press releases contain ratings for all of those shows.
Alright, the last NBC press release is for last week–so we’ll have to wait for next thursday’s release to see where Lopez pulled his audience from?
we won’t have any data to do any viewer comparisons to NBC/CBS late night shows until next Thursday but in local people meter markets with adults 18-49, it didn’t have any noticeable impact. I’ll see Daily Show viewer #s on Tuesday and post on it if there is any noticeable difference.
Personally, I don’t find the guy funny, but as long as the show does better than what they had before in those timeslots, then they should by all means keep it.
hmm that’s interesting.. thanks robert!
Although I’m sure it is significantly more expensive than 10 year old Seinfeld reruns.
about time we been waiting for a show like this for a while after all this time i’m sure we won’t let him down, we will be there every night. viva la raza cabrones y no me lo abandonen haganse presente Latinos Y recuerden este es solo el comienzo.
George Lopez is a very funny and a talanted actor. Anything he does is packed with crazyness and I find myself always laughing. I support everything that Mr. Lopez has done in his career. I really do think that whatever Mr. Lopez decides to do in his life that poeple will benefit from him no matter what he does. If by chance when I’m channel surfing and I run across one of his shows. I stop and watch it no matter what. And as far as the last comment left here I dido that comment(viva la raza cabrones y no me lo abandonen haganse presente Latinos Y recuerden este es solo el comienzo). Comment by rossellini11 above November 13 2009 At 7:07 pm
Thanks Thaddeus
ps Conan you’re weeeeeeeeeeeak.
We enjoyed watchng your George Lopez show. We were very proud to hear about you hosting a talk show and were anticipating watching it as a family because you are the first Latino to host a late night talk show. However, we were disgusted by the vulgar words in Spanish and the content of your conversations with your guests and the dancers in the background. We could not continue and will not watch it as a family.
We feel that your show could be very successful without the filthy language and Rated X conversations beccause you are extremely humourous and we can relate to your comedy.
You bring shame to our Latino culture.
PS: Consider yourself on the leva!
Uh, Sylvia, it’s not the ’70s anymore; late night shows, especially cable late night shows, are not family friendly. And if you knew anything about George Lopez you would know his stand up was not family friendly.
Samantha: Late nite shows are at 11:00 pm. The one that I was commenting on came on at 8:00 pm. He was talking about masturbating and using foul language. Therefore, it should be aired after 11:00 pm. I still believe he could be classier because he’s competing with Jay Leno, Conan and other guys but even they would not be allowed to use such language.
I know we’re not in the 70’s but I think he still brings shame to our Latino culture.
It does air at 11:00PM Eastern time. I take it you live in the Pacific time zone and were watching the east coast feed.
Unfortunately out here on the West Coast if you have a satellite package like Dish Network a lot of the networks like TBS and USA are shown two or three hours earlier than Eastern time. Therefore 11PM on the East Coast will be 8 or 9 out West.
So if you have a hard R or M rated programs they will be dropping right in the middle of prime time family viewing.
Lizard
And while I didn’t watch the show nor do I care to, I imagine it had a box in the top lefthand corner of the screen at the beginning of the show, and after each commercial break with the show’s rating, TV-14 DL according to my Tivo. That should’ve been a clue right there that it wasn’t going to have “classy language”.
No children left at home for me so I am not really bothered by that. But I do understand sylvia’s consternation.
Lizard
So I have a question, as it seems as if Lopez will draw a huge latino audience. Which shows did he draw you away from? Was it english shows, telenovelas, or something else?
Lopez Tonight is way better than the broadcaster’s late night shows. I just can’t watch it everyday but its a good start so far and once Lopez gets a regular following it should be getting 2 million viewers every night.
I really like what TBS has been doing aggressively with Late Night lately they just need Match Game like somebody said before somewhere else.
I haven’t seen Chelsea Lately in a while but she has a very good late night show and I wonder if her ratings are closer to George’s now?
Geroge Lopez is Man…he’s might have his own show and his Own Fame but He Can’t Outwitted Us?, No.
I guess you didn’t see the graphic on tbs.com declaring him King George.
>”However, we were disgusted by the vulgar words in Spanish and the content of your conversations with your guests and the dancers in the background.”
Isn’t that what all Mexican TV is like? They put dancers in the background of everything.
George Lopez wouldn’t know funny if it was choking him. His comedy is the worst kind of lowest common denominator crap.
Just give the gay a chance Man.
if you are looking for a better languaje show there is sesame street, tha’s why the put the show at 11:00 pm
I fully expect numbers to drop to a borderline million. Not that he isn’t putting on a good show or anything, but this was a HEAVILY hyped premiere. Ads were run seemingly nonstop, and during playoff baseball games even. Plus, I can’t imagine any cable late night talk show dethroning the The Daily Show/Colbert Report combo that has ruled over the late night cable talk show domain for so long.
He brings progress into our country. A Start that can Help the hispanic coulter. He talks about issues that are in every latino’s life. I’m not saying he has a clean mouth but he’s a mexican male that has a Voice in the U.S. and put the kids to bed by 9 and watch it at 10. It’s not a Family Show. Late Night Shows are never meant for Kids to be up watching it with us. He has a long way to go and I know he’ll bring more of a Positive side about immigration and the way Society looks at us now as Hispanic-Americans just give it time. We are Funny People and We all make funny jokes about sex,male talk,female talk,etc. I mean the man talked to Larry David and had him take a DNA Test and that was hilarious. More Guests he’ll get funnier. It’s only the First Week. Keep Watching Lopez Tonight. Can’t get any worse…
I always find it funny that some people will come on to a board and moan and complain about someone’s language on a late-night TV show for hours on end, but they won’t take the two minutes to reprogram their TV or cable/satellite box to block a show with at TV-14 rating.
The best type of censorship is the remote control or v-chip in each person’s TV. I don’t want the government or ultra-conservative groups doing it for me. I can do it myself.
In my most humble opinion, George Lopez is about as funny as Jeff Foxworthy… in other words he isn’t funny. The George Lopez show (abc) was a cheap rip-off of home improvement a decade late. AFV home videos of guys getting smashed in the groin with various items is classier and smarter.
Lopez is such a bore, and he isn’t funny at all. I mean if you can watch Conan or Stewart the step down to Lopez is HUGE. Big opening weeks when people check it out and the few ‘big time’ guests are spent, I suspect he’ll drop a huge amount. Leno, and Conan even dropped quite a bit from their first weeks on the new slot, and you KNOW the pool of guests they can pool blows this amateur Lopez out of the water.
Another reason I think he is going to drop is reading the comments here much of the people that like the show seem to be doing it out of some kind of racial pride, which doesn’t speak well of how entertaining it is. How many people do you think tune into Conan because he is Irish? How many make sure to ‘be there’ to watch Daily show because he is Jewish? Get over yourselves.
I’d rather watch Seinfeld reruns.
thats right my fellow americanos…read em and weep. No anden chingando…just congradulate k.
It seems that whenever change happens, such as in late night talk shows (a format that has been on the air since before Johnny Carson), Anglo-Americans are scared. They fear Latinos because they do not understand their culture, their traditions, their language and most of all their sense of humor. Talk shows like “The Tonight Show” and “Late Night” are boring and stale with low ratings. These guys have had free reign of the airwaves for years and now a Latino comes along with “some spice & flare” and they fear him. Afraid that he will steal all the ratings (which he is) and their sponsors (which he will). Latinos are the largest movie-going audience in the country and soon will be the majority of the population. So look out: “It’s time for a change, Cabrones!” “Pinche Gringos!” “Get a taste of the future in this country!!”