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‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Ends Its Run With Most-Watched Weeknight Episode Ever

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The finale of 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' on Thursday Scott Kowalchyk/CBS

Stephen Colbert closed out The Late Show on Thursday night to the tune of 6.74M live + same-day viewers, per preliminary panel only data from Nielsen.

That makes it the series most-watched weeknight episode ever, CBS says, even higher than Colbert’s very first episode as host. He signed on for duty on September 8, 2015 to around 6.55M viewers.

The episode soared well ahead of the Q1 2026 audience average, which landed around 2.69M viewers in L+7.

There have been various other special episodes of the late-night show that have garnered more viewers than this. For example, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert aired a post-Super Bowl episode in 2016 to 20.55M viewers.

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