NBC Gives an Early Hook to Megyn Kelly's Sunday Night Show
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Eight episodes into the newsmagazine’s maiden run, NBC has pulled “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly” off the air, replacing it with original episodes of “Dateline.”
The decision to end Kelly’s summer run, previously reported by The New York Post’s Page Six but little-noted beyond that, eliminates episodes that the network had put on its schedule for Aug. 6 and Aug. 13. People familiar with the situation said the first season of Kelly’s primetime show had been slated to end on Sept. 3 at the latest, in order to make way for the return of “Sunday Night Football,” but a fixed number of episodes was never set in stone.
After debuting on June 4 to 6.2 million viewers and a 1.2 rating in the news demo, the equivalent of around 1.44 million adults 25 to 54, Kelly’s Sunday night show struggled to retain an audience. A controversial broadcast featuring an interview with conservative conspiracy theorist Alex Jones delivered just 961,000 demographically-relevant live-same-day viewers, and subsequent ratings fell even further from there.
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