"Jimmy Kimmel Live" passed a milestone last week, posting its best weekly ratings since shifting to the 11:35 p.m. timeslot in January.
During the week of June 10, the ABC late-night offering averaged 1.075 million viewers in the advertiser-sought 18-49 demographic — a 28 percent gain over the previous week, and a best-yet showing since the January shift, which put Kimmel's show in direct competition with NBC's "The Tonight Show" and CBS's "Late Show With David Letterman."
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The week's performance also marked Kimmel's best showing in the demo in nearly a decade, since the week of Nov.