Already having been renewed for a third season by the FOX Television Stations and Hearst Television, “The Jennifer Hudson Show” recently hit a new season high among Total Viewers and Households.
According to TheWrap, the talk show, produced by Warner Bros. Unscripted Television in association with Telepictures, averaged 918,000 viewers during the week of January 22-26, 2024, the most recent week in which syndicated ratings are available. Among Households, the Jennifer Hudson-hosted series had a 0.62 rating.
The most watched episode for the week – and the season – was the Monday, January 22 episode featuring singer and author Common (real name Lonnie Rashid Lynn), who revealed that he and Hudson are dating in real-life after rumors had been circulating for some time. That episode averaged 1.03 million viewers and a 0.70 rating among Households.
Answering “yes” when asked by Hudson if he was dating somebody, Common noted, “I’m in a relationship that is [with] one of the most beautiful people I ever met in life. She’s smart, loves God, and has something real down to earth about her.” He added more specific details, including “She’s talented… I set my standard kind of high because she’s got to have an EGOT [Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony]; she had to win an Oscar for her first movie. I set my standard high, she got to have her own talk show.”
The week also featured actor Anthony Anderson and his mother, Doris Bowman, Paris Hilton and her mother, Kathy Hilton, Joel Kim Booster, Mel B and Snoop Dogg.
Now in its second season, “The Jennifer Hudson Show” is said to have amassed 17.2 million unique viewers to date, with its current season marking a +14% increase over the year ago period among Adults 18-34, making it the only nationally syndicated talk show to see an uptick in the key sales demographic while also maintaining its previous season average among the key Women 18-34 demographic, according to figures released by Nielsen.
Additional guests sitting down for a chat with Hudson (aka JHud) include Oprah Winfrey, Mariah Carey, Adam Sander and Matthew McConaughey, among others.