Jay Leno‘s Tonight Show swan song churned up the franchise’s biggest weekly crowd since the week of NBC’s Cheers finale in ’93. Meanwhile, his replacement, Jimmy Fallon wrapped his Late Night hosting gig with that show’s biggest weekly haul since it followed Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show farewell, in May of ’92. Leno’s actual Thursday night finale last week clocked the biggest crowd for an individual Tonight show broadcast since Jerry Seinfeld turned up after his primetime hit’s so-long episode, on May 14, 1998. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno averaged a 1.9 rating and 8.289 million viewers in its final week. That’s the top Tonight total-viewer average since the show snagged 9.08 million viewers the week of NBC’s Cheers finale – the week of May 17, 1993. In the demo, it was Tonight Show‘s best week since Conan O’Brien‘s dramatic final week hosting original episodes of the late-night franchise.
- 2/13/2014
- by LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist
- Deadline TV
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