THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT Viewership Up 16% in Late Night

CBS, the ratings leader for decades in daytime television, has opened the 2024-25 broadcast season with audience growth across its daytime dramas and game shows in L+7 viewing, according to VideoAmp data.

CBS will further expand the daytime audience with BEYOND THE GATES, the new daytime drama series and debut project from the CBS Studios/NAACP Venture, which premieres Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, and will air weekdays (2:00-3:00 PM, ET; 1:00-2:00 PM, PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+. This marks the first-ever one-hour Black daytime soap and the first daytime drama to premiere since “Passions” in 1999.

THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT has also retained its #1 status with a 16% increase in total viewers vs. last year.

#1 Daytime Network Line Up with the Top Three Shows

• CBS Daytime is delivering 3.83 million total viewers

• #1 THE PRICE IS RIGHT

• #2 THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS (also the #1 daytime drama)

• #3 THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (also the #2 daytime drama)

CBS Daytime Broadcast Audience Growth

• THE PRICE IS RIGHT up +4% delivering 5.38 million total viewers

• THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS up +5% delivering 5.09 million total viewers

• THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL up +5% delivering 4.13 million total viewers

• LET’S MAKE A DEAL up +4% delivering 3.34 million total viewers

#1 Late Night Show

• #1 THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT is up +16% delivering 3.61 million total viewers

Source: VideoAmp Live+7 Data, 09/23/24 – 11/5/24.

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Julie Holland: Julie.Holland@cbs.com