The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" delivered its biggest 18-49 demo audience in 10 weeks as it defeated "Late Show with David Letterman" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" in 18-49 viewers and total viewers for the week of April 8-12.
At 12:35 a.m. ET, NBC's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" delivered bigger audiences than CBS's "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" and ABC's "Nightline" during their head-to-head half-hour in every key ratings category. Note that CBS's Monday, Thursday and Friday results are excluded from the weekly averages due to delays for sports coverage, while Friday's "Kimmel" was an encore.Leno bested Kimmel in all key ratings categories - adults, men and women 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54, plus total viewers. And while "Tonight" and "Late Show" both rounded to a 0.8 rating in 18-49, Jay delivered the bigger audience in that key demo, 1.047 million to 974,000. That 1.047 million viewers was Jay's biggest 18-49 audience since the week of Jan. 28-Feb. 1.Photo by: Andrew Eccles/NBC
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