To expand on my last blog about Jimmy Fallon, here are some items to consider:
NEW YORK — Aug. 21, 2014 — “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” has reported its top ratings results in nine weeks. Averaging a 1.14 rating in adults 18-49 and 4.002 million viewers overall for the week of Aug. 11-15, “Tonight” earned its top marks in both categories since the week of June 9-13.
Every week, Fallon challenges his eight Twitter million followers to come up with ideas based on games he creates (e.g., #howigotfired, #awkwarddate). These bits become global trending topics, some in as quickly as twelve minutes.
Ed Bark of CNN has this to say about Fallon“…if this indeed is Fallon’s time, it may be in large part because we live in very different times. The Internet-driven “social media” didn’t exist during Carson’s storied 30-year reign. He simply had to deliver a conventional TV audience. He did so year after year against a variety of competitors in a much less crowded late-night field.”
This graph represents Google search hits.
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