{"id":450527,"date":"2025-09-25T14:10:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/450527\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:10:17","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-returns-bigger-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/450527\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel returns bigger than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

In spite of Brendan Carr\u2019s efforts, the return of Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s talk show is breaking viewership records on YouTube, and ratings of the first return broadcast were the show\u2019s highest in a decade. Tuesday\u2019s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a> contained Kimmel\u2019s most-watched monologue ever on the video platform, a 28-minute segment addressing the censorship, which has reached more than 19 million views<\/a> at the time of writing.<\/p>\n

The increased online viewership could include people who are unable to watch the show on network television and are flocking to YouTube instead, as Nexstar and Sinclair continue to block it from being broadcast<\/a> on roughly one-quarter of ABC stations. Preliminary Nielsen figures cited by ABC and reported by The New York Times<\/a>, which don\u2019t include streaming viewership, show that Tuesday\u2019s episode averaged 6.2 million viewers \u2014 nearly four times higher than Kimmel\u2019s usual audience. These figures are preliminary and expected to grow in the coming days.<\/p>\n

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Among Adults 18-49, \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d earned a 0.87 rating, representing the show\u2019s highest regularly scheduled episode in over 10 years \u2014 since 3\/12\/15.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Poetically, the party<\/a> that made such a public push to get Kimmel kicked off the airwaves has unintentionally amplified his platform, even while 20 percent of ABC affiliates have bent the knee and boycotted the show.<\/p>\n

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