Stephen Colbert’s Final ‘Late Show’ Draws Most Weeknight Viewers of His Tenure
The final episode of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert drew 6.74 million viewers for CBS on Thursday, the most-ever for a weeknight episode, according to preliminary Nielsen data.
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert once aired a post-Super Bowl episode (Feb. 7, 2016) on a Sunday night, which averaged 20.55 million viewers. The series premiere of the Colbert Late Show averaged 6.55 million total viewers.
For the now-wrapped season, The Late Show averaged 2.69 million viewers.
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