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Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" Achieves a Ratings First

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (7)

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A couple of quick television notes of interest to pass on. First off, for those of you interested in late-night television ratings, for the first time since Leno took back “The Tonight Show” (boo!), “The Late Show with David Letterman” bested its NBC rival in the ratings for the month of October in overall viewers and the key demographic.

However, what’s really interesting here is that both “The Late Show” and “The Tonight Show” were topped in the ratings under the key 18-49 demographic for the first time by Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” if you count only fresh October episodes. Even conceding that “The Daily Show” had a better month than usual thanks to the mid-term elections, a visit from Barack Obama, and the build up to the “Rally to Restore Sanity,” it’s still a remarkable achievement for a Comedy Central show to top both network late-night mainstays.

Meanwhile, some of the reason that “The Tonight Show” is suffering — besides having Jay Leno as its host, of course — are the prime time lead-ins that NBC provides. It’s the fourth place network, and there’s very little reason to believe it will vacate that position anytime soon. Its new fall slate has been a disaster, and today, NBC finally pulled the plug on the heavily promoted J.J. Abrams’ produced “Undercovers.” The ratings have been dismal all season long, and in this case, at least, those ratings were warranted. It was a tepid show.









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Comments

Well clearly the man restored sanity, so thank you for that Mr. Stewart.

Posted by: becks at November 4, 2010 6:06 PM

I watched about 1.5 episodes of Undercovers, not including the pilot.

The leads are both pretty, pretty, SO MUCH PRETTY, but it was a lamer-than-average spy-procedural-y show. Not totally abysmal, but below average. If it had been just a little itty bitty bit better, it might have been worth it for the pretty. But, no.

Posted by: MM at November 4, 2010 6:10 PM

It’s new fall slate has been a disaster, and today, NBC finally pulled the plug on the heavily promoted J.J. Abrams’ produced “Undercovers.”

The leads are so pretty and I wanted it to be so much better than it was. But yeah, I barely made it through the pilot.

Posted by: jM at November 4, 2010 6:11 PM

NBC sucks, aside from 3/4 of the Thursday comedies (I needn't name the sucky show, but I am sure I could outsource my comment.)
Leno has ruined what used to be a witty, fun show. I'm with Coco!!!

Posted by: nat at November 4, 2010 6:29 PM

Thanks for the heads up, just deleted the "Undercovers" folder on my hard drive (had all the episodes downloaded but hand't watched them).

I also deleted Hawaii Five-O, pilot was not bad, but episode 2 was unwatchabled so delete.

Gave Terriers and Raising Hope a try due to this site, and both are pretty good. (Not Dexter good, but pretty good).

Posted by: TrickyHD at November 4, 2010 9:29 PM

Spoiler alert: In the season finale of Undercovers, she gets pregnant and he leaves her.

Posted by: Allen at November 5, 2010 12:00 AM

I'm so, so glad Undercovers got cancelled; I love Fringe and didn't want it to start sucking because Abbrams was working on yet another show. Stay focused, man!

Posted by: DeadBessie at November 5, 2010 12:07 PM