{"id":875505,"date":"2026-10-08T20:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/875505\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T20:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:08:10","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-live-brooklyn-week-ratings-best-in-11-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/875505\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Jimmy Kimmel Live&#8217; Brooklyn Week Ratings: Best in 11 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWith 2.66 million total viewers, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/jimmy-kimmel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-kimmel\" data-tag=\"jimmy-kimmel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> Live\u201d topped late-night for the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/jimmy-kimmel-live-ratings-fall-premiere-week-no-1-late-night-1236877810\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second week in a row<\/a> this season. This time, it was for Kimmel\u2019s week of live Brooklyn-based shows from the Brooklyn Academy of Music\u2019s Howard Gilman Opera House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThis year\u2019s trip to the Big Apple turned out to be the show\u2019s most-watched Brooklyn Week in 11 years and top adults 18-49 performance in seven years. And in year-to-year comparisons, total viewers jumped from 2.20 million to 2.66 million and the show\u2019s adults 18-49 ratings increased from 0.22 to 0.27. This represents a 21% increase in viewers and 23% increase in adults 18-49 ratings from last year\u2019s New York City edition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tKicking off Sept. 28, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/jimmy-kimmel-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-kimmel-live\" data-tag=\"jimmy-kimmel-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a>\u201d earned 3.25 million total viewers and a 0.47 rating among adults 18-49, with the show\u2019s best telecasts in three months. These numbers are based on live+same day big data plus panel ratings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe week started off with guests Pete Davidson (\u201cThe Pete Davidson Show,\u201d \u201cHow To Rob a Bank\u201d) and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday before welcoming Howard Stern (\u201cThe Howard Stern Show\u201d), Amy Schumer and Tom Morello with a musical performance on Tuesday. Billy Crystal (\u201c860\u201d), Mahershala Ali (\u201cYour Mother Your Mother Your Mother\u201d) and musical guest De La Soul took the stage Wednesday night. On Thursday, fellow late night hosts John Oliver and Seth Meyers shared the stage with comedian Robby Hoffman (\u201cRobby Hoffman: Wake Up\u201d). Brooklyn week closed with Paul McCartney (\u201cThe Boys of Dungeon Lane\u201d), Sen. Bernie Sanders, Jon Stewart and musical guest Goose on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThis week\u2019s \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d is back in Los Angeles with a full slate of guests including Anna Kendrick, Marcus Mumford, Mumford &amp; Sons and Sophia James on Monday; Kerry Washington (\u201cAnimals\u201d), Kyle MacLachlan and Sophia James on Tuesday; Jessica Chastain (\u201cOther Mommy\u201d), Malcolm Gladwell and Sophia James on Wednesday; Michael Douglas, Daisy Edgar-Jones (\u201cSense and Sensibility\u201d), Remi Wolf and Sophia James on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With 2.66 million total viewers, \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d topped late-night for the second week in a row this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,17114,11575,92,9611],"class_list":["post-875505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","tag-tv","tag-tv-ratings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}