NBC - FERGUSON BEATS O'BRIEN FOR FIRST TIME

In what must have come as a shock to NBC, which plans to replace Jay Leno with Conan O'Brien next year, the latest ratings for late-night shows revealed Thursday that CBS's Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson beat O'Brien's Late Night for the first time in which both shows aired original shows opposite one another. According to Nielsen figures, Ferguson averaged 1.88 million viewers last week to O'Brien's 1.77 million. Peter Lassally, the executive producer of Ferguson's show, which is produced by David Letterman's WorldWide Pants, told the Associated Press that Ferguson is "having such a good time that you can't resist it as a viewer."

11/04/2008