Nolte: Late Night Ratings-Crash Excuses Debunked with One Word – ‘Gutfeld!’John Nolte 12 Sep 2024
The far-left Hollywood Reporter sure is a good dog. As left-wing Late Night TV continues to wither on the vine, the propaganda outlet fabricated all kinds of excuses and managed to do it without mentioning the word Gutfeld!
You gotta be a real good dog to do that.
Late-night TV is dying. What had been a cheap-to-produce cash cow less than ten years ago, is no more. Ratings are in the toilet. Shows are being canceled. Fridays are all reruns. Cost-cutting is happening everywhere.
Earlier this year, NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers had to drop its house band as part of budget cuts. And last year CBS opted to end its Late Late Show after James Corden left, opting to replace it with the less expensive After Midnight comedy game show.
And here’s the dismal ratings news:
Five years ago, The Late Show finished first in total viewers among late-night talk shows with 3.81 million, to 2.44 million for The Tonight Show and 2.04 million for Jimmy Kimmel Live. In 2023-24, The Late Show remained No. 1, but with only about 2.6 million viewers — a decline of about 32 percent from 2018-19. Kimmel moved into second with 1.82 million viewers, down about 11 percent from five years earlier (having Monday Night Football as a lead-in once a week last fall helped some; the show averaged 1.77 million viewers from January to May). The Tonight Show slipped to third in viewers with 1.43 million, losing 41 percent of its 2018-19 total.
So what does the Hollywood Reporter blame for this demise? Could it be that Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and even Jimmy Fallon turning their backs on entertaining America and sixty years of tradition to instead lecture, shame, virtue signal, and divide might have something to do with it? Not according to the Hollywood Reporter.
more
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/09/12/nolte-late-night-ratings-crash-excuses-debunked-with-one-word-gutfeld/
