Updated: Leno Lands More Than 17 Million Viewers on Night One

After a summer of massive promotion and hype, NBC’s The Jay Leno Show was widely sampled, with 17.66 million viewers and a 5.1 rating/13 share among adults 18-49 in the Monday 10 p.m. hour, based on the fast affiliate results. 

Leno beat the competition combined—repeats of Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory and CSI: Miami on CBS and the last hour of theatrical Dreamgirls on ABC—by a considerable 7.32 million viewers and 65 percent in the demo.

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