CBS daytime talk show THE TALK, now in its third season, is network television's fastest-growing daytime program, according to Nielsen most current ratings.

            This season THE TALK is averaging 2.29 million viewers, a gain of +330,000 viewers (+17%) from the comparable period last year, outpacing all other network daytime programs.

According to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending Oct. 19, THE TALK is up +11% in both viewers (2.18m from 1.96m) and women 25-54 (1.0/06 from 0.9/05) and even in women 18-49 (0.6/04) and women 18-34 (0.4/03) compared to the same week last year.

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