Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show Pulls In Big Ratings

Jimmy Fallon’s first episode on The Tonight Show won the highest TV ratings of late-night, with a 7.1 viewership on the Nielsen scale. That means about 9 or 10 million people tuned in to watch Fallon take Leno’s desk, Variety reports. The premiere ratings are much higher than Fallon’s Late Night ratings, and more than double Leno’s ratings in his penultimate week on the air, which only reached a 3.5. But they don’t reach the sky-high ratings of Leno’s last night as host, which rea...

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