Hot Stuff: George Lopez & Conan Deliver Big Late Night Ratings!

By Michael Lopez

After months of hype, the back-to-back team of George Lopez and Conan O’Brien made their big debut Monday night (November 8). And as promised, they delivered funny jokes, hot guests, and most importantly BIG ratings for the TBS Network!

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Kicking off at 11pm, Conan brought everyone’s favorite late night redhead back to the talk show stage after 10 months off the air. Since getting The Tonight Show from Jay Leno and losing The Tonight Show (back to Jay Leno), O’Brien’s grown a beard, become a Twitter god, and toured the country with a live stand up act.

And it looks like the break from the daily TV grind has served him well. Critics around the web agreed that the comedy on his debut show was fresh and much looser than what he had done on NBC (which aired The Tonight Show). Fans agreed too, as he was able to pull 3.3 million viewers from the targeted 18-49 year-old demographic.

George Lopez’ Lopez Tonight seemed to benefit as well. Even though his year-old show was bumped to midnight to make room for Conan, it pulled a record 1.4 million viewers in the 18-49 demo (we’re sure having Janet Jackson as a guest helped).

And how did good old Jay fare against the new late night cable titans? In the same demographic of 18-49, he only got 952,000 viewers. Sound like good news for all of you Team Coco fans out there. The O’Brien/Lopez combo is here to stay!

Source: [Forbes]

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