TV Ratings: CBS’ ‘Late Show’ Pulls Even With NBC’s ‘Tonight’ in Demo

Author: Rick Porter / Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Stephen Colbert's CBS show has pulled even with Jimmy Fallon and NBC for the season. — CBS; NBC Stephen Colbert (left), Jimmy Fallon

The race for late-night supremacy has turned into a dead heat.

CBS’ Late Show With Stephen Colbert has moved into a tie with NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon among adults 18-49 for the season so far.

Through the first seven weeks of the season (Sept. 24-Nov. 9), the two shows are each averaging a 0.51 rating in the key ad-sales demographic.

Late Show has been tops in total viewers for some time — it currently has a 1.19 million-viewer lead over The Tonight Show — but this season is the first time the two have been tied in the demo since Colbert took over Late Show in September 2015.

Late Show currently has the very smallest of leads in the total number of 18- to 49-year-old viewers, averaging 658,000 for the season to Tonight‘s 656,000. That, too, is a first for Colbert’s show.