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Article: Scot takes 'Late' rates to highland.('Late Late Show')(Brief Article)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- March 15, 2005
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Latenight's newest host is finding an audience.
Craig Ferguson, the bemused Scotsman who won the sweepstakes to host the "Late Late Show," is taking the show to new ratings heights.
Show rated an average of 1.91 million viewers during the February sweeps, putting distance between the "Late Late Show" and ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" and moving into a respectable second place behind NBC's "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" (2.53 million).
Ferguson, who beat out three other candidates for the job, turned in a better February sweeps perf than either of his predecessors, Craig Kilborn and Tom Snyder. Eye senior VP for programming Kelly Kahl estimates ...