Kimmel Reigns on First Post-Colbert Night as Late-Night Shakeup Unfolds

On the first night without Stephen Colbert, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! dominated the 11:35 p.m. slot with 2.185 million viewers (295,000 in 18–49), while NBC’s Jimmy Fallon drew 1.301 million (194,000 18–49) and CBS’s Comics Unleashed fell to 628,000 (82,000 18–49) under Byron Allen’s time-buy arrangement; the shift highlights CBS’s pivot away from Colbert’s era and has Oliver mocking the replacement as the post-Colbert late-night landscape takes shape.