‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Ends ‘The Tonight Show’s Demo-Win Run As ABC Series Scores Best Ratings In 7 Months

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Jimmy Kimmel Live! had its best ratings run since October as the ABC series topped the late-night demo last week.The talkshow won the late-night ratings among adults 18-49 during the week of May 17, beating NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.It ends Fallon’s twelve week run topping the demo.Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which had guests on including Chris Rock and Samira Wiley, averaged 359,000 viewers in the demo, live+same day, compared to The Tonight Show’s 338,000 and The Late Show’s 278,000.It should be noted that The Late Show continues to comfortably dominate in total viewers.But Kimmel has cemented its number two position in total viewers this season, ahead of The Tonight Show for the