Ellen DeGeneres’ Ratings Woes Extend Beyond Daytime

Ellen’s ratings are in trouble, and we’re not just talking about her daytime talk show, “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” Tuesday’s fourth season premiere of the comic’s primetime NBC series, “Ellen’s Game of Games,” got a 0.7 rating among adults 18-49, according to preliminary Nielsen numbers, a 30% drop from from the Season 3 premiere back on Jan. 7, 2020. The show also slipped 16% in total audience, to an average 3.6 million viewers. (“Ellen’s Game of Games” did not air episodes in fall 2019, so this is the only comparison we have. It’s also important to note that last night’s episode of Ellen’s primetime show went up against Game 4 of the NBA Finals on ABC.) Worse, DeGeneres’ long-running daytime talk show is also off to a weak start. Despite a decent start from her season-debut apology episode on Sept. 21, the first full week of the new “Ellen” season sunk 29% in national syndication TV ratings from the comparable five days last September, with a 1.2 household average vs. a 1.7. She shed more than 650,000 viewers in her first week of the new season compared to the same week last year — with an average audience of 1.7...

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