Updated on Wednesday, Jan. 13 at 11:35 a.m. PT with final Nielsen data: Monday’s “Tonight Show” drew the fourth-smallest audience ever for an original episode of the show, according to Nielsen’s final ratings. Jimmy Fallon averaged 1.063 million total viewers from 11:35 p.m. to 12:35 a.m. PT.
All three of the late-night franchise’s smaller TV audiences came last year. On Aug. 18, 2020, Fallon had 1.004 million total viewers. On Aug. 20, he got 1.061 million. The all-time low came on Sept. 25, when “The Tonight Show” fell below 1 million viewers for the first and only time ever in Nielsen’s final ratings, posting just 992,000 total viewers.