<\/p>\n
Despite not airing in about 23 percent of the country\u2019s TV homes \u2014 due to blackouts at 66 ABC affiliates owned by Nexstar<\/a> and Sinclair \u2014 Tuesday\u2019s episode drew 6.26 million viewers, based on preliminary Nielsen<\/a> figures. That\u2019s the largest tune-in (save for a couple of special episodes) in Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a>\u2019s 22-year history and more than three times higher than the show\u2019s average for the second quarter of 2025, before Kimmel\u2019s annual summer break when guest hosts fill in for him.<\/p>\n Tuesday\u2019s installment also drew a 0.87 rating among adults 18-49 (equivalent to about 1.18 million viewers in that age group), its best mark for a regularly scheduled episode in more than a decade (since March 2015). The Nielsen numbers do not include the \u201cbig data…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The return of Jimmy Kimmel Live! from an ABC-imposed suspension drew a big audience Tuesday night \u2014 the show\u2019s largest ever for a regular episode. Despite not airing in about 23 percent of the country\u2019s TV homes \u2014 due to blackouts at 66 ABC affiliates owned by Nexstar and Sinclair \u2014 Tuesday\u2019s episode drew 6.26 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2047709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2047708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Jimmy-Kimmel-Live-Draws-Record-Ratings-in-Return-from-Suspension.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2047709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}