Conan Beats Leno, Letterman

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Conan on TBS, which featured night-one guests actor Seth Rogen, Glee’s Lea Michele and musician Jack White, launched on Monday with 4.16 million viewers—3.28 million adults 18-49 and 2.45 million adults 18-34 at 11 p.m. ET—according to Nielsen Media Research data. 

Comparably, this was both the most-watched late-night talker of the evening in the three surveyed categories, and the youngest skewing (with a medium age of just 30). Conan also more than doubled the debut of year-ago time period occupant Lopez Tonight (which has shifted to 12 a.m.

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