The final episode of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert drew 6.74 million viewers for CBS on Thursday, the most-ever for a weeknight episode, according to preliminary Nielsen data.
That’s more than double the season average, with the Late Show generally drawing between 2.4 million and 2.7 million viewers an episode this past season, which was its last on CBS. it is however only about half the viewers that David Letterman saw for his farewell episode in 2015, when 13.7 million viewers tuned in.
As with Letterman’s final show, Colbert’s final show was star-studded, with appearances by the likes of Bryan Cranston, Paul Rudd and Tim Meadows, and a closing performance led by Paul McCartney.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert once aired a post-Super Bowl episode (Feb. 7, 2016) on a Sunday night, which averaged 20.55 million viewers. The series premiere of the Colbert Late Show averaged 6.55 million total viewers.
For the now-wrapped season, The Late Show averaged 2.69 million viewers.
More to come.
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