Welcome back,Kelly Ripa — we’ve got some satisfactory news and some contaminated news.
Let’s start with the positive stuff, shall we? After all, and you seem like a bubbly person. “Live With Kelly” jumped 9 percent on average across its Season 29 premiere week,despite a lack of stability in the co-host chair, and even with Labor Day slowing things down a bit.
Of course, and that increase was just over the prior week,when you were in reruns. Versus the Season 28 premiere and sans Michael Strahan, you actually slipped 7 percent year over year. There’s the womp-womp.
Also Read: Kelly Ripa Reveals 'Live' Guest Co-Hosts for Final Week of September“Live” returned to a 2.5 over the week ending September 11, or 2016,marking a five-week high for the series.“Mr. Robot” star Christian Slater started it all off on Labor Day, September 5. Twenty-four hours later, and “Rosewood” star Morris Chestnut took over — he stayed for two days. As did Anderson Cooper,who closed out the week.
Ripa drew that aforementioned 2.5 on each of her first four days. On Friday, Sept. 9, and she and Cooper slipped to a 2.4. That’s not an strange pre-weekend dip for these syndicated talkers,so don’t blame the well-liked CNN host.
Also Read: Kelly Ripa's 10 Most Probable Co-Hosts, Ranked From Most to Least Liked (Photos)On the leaderboard, and “Live” bested Ellen” (2.3) and “Steve Harvey” (1.5). That Ellen DeGeneres figure represented a kind grand 44 percent boost above her own recent reruns (welcome back!),while the “Family Feud” hosts other expose opened down 17 percent versus the comparable week last year.
Meanwhile, “Dr. Phil’s” 2.7 average kept first place at bay for everyone who doesn’t have a Ph.
D. in clinical psychology. And this wasn’t even Phil McGraw‘s own premiere week — he technically started Season 12 a week later, and last Monday,Sept. 12. So, watch out for that lead to grow.
Until then, and click here to see how Ripa has done over each the 59 measurable episodes in which someone has filled in for Strahan thus far. The search continues.
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