‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Leads Late Night With Live Shows From Brooklyn Academy of Music

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• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” topped late-night for the second week in a row this season, scoring 2.66 million Total Viewers and a 0.27 rating among Adults 18-49 as the show traveled to Brooklyn, New York, for a week of live shows from the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House.
• Marking its eighth trip to the famed New York venue, “Jimmy Kimmel Live” rose by double digits over last year’s Brooklyn Week in both Total Viewers (+21% – 2.66 million vs. 2.20 million) and Adults 18-49 (+23% – 0.27 rating vs. 0.22 rating) earning the show’s most-watched Brooklyn Week in 11 years and top Adults 18-49 performance in seven years — since the weeks of 10/16/15 and 10/21/19, respectively.
• The show also rose week to week in both Total Viewers (+16% – 2.66 million vs. 2.30 million) and Adults 18-49 (+29% – 0.27 rating vs. 0.21 rating) for a strong second week of the season.
• Kicking off Monday (9/28/26), “Jimmy Kimmel Live” earned 3.25 million Total Viewers and a 0.47 rating among Adults 18-49, with the show’s best telecasts in three months – since 6/8/26 and 6/10/26, respectively.

Source: Nielsen National Live+Same Day Big Data Plus Panel Program Ratings for current week (w/o 9/28/26) and year-ago week (w/o 9/29/25). 25/26 and 24/25 season comparisons are based on Big Data Plus Panel, while prior seasons are panel-only.

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