ABC says its late night lineup drew its biggest Adults 18-49 audience of this TV season for the week of June 9-15, with Jimmy Kimmel Live at a seven-month high in the demo and Nightline improving in 18-49 by double digits. For its part, NBC noted that The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon beat Kimmel in 18-49 on both nights that ABC had the NBA Finals as lead-in (Tuesday and Thursday) and that for the entire week, Fallon beat the combined rating of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live and CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman in adults 18-49……ABC’s new reality series The Quest premieres Thursday, July 31, at 8:00 pm (ET), taking 12 unsuspecting contestants to an imaginative realm, where ogres run free in the forest, dragons stir, agents of a dark lord infiltrate the keep, and the only thing standing between peace and chaos are one dozen very unlikely heroes. The genre-bending series is from the Executive Producer of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Executive Producers of The Amazing Race……NBC has ordered six episodes of the hour-long alternative series Running Wild with Bear Grylls, where the famed adventurer and survivalist will take celebrities into the most remote and wild locations in the U.S. and around the world for a 48-hour journey of a lifetime. The series will premiere Monday, July 28, at 8:00 pm (ET).

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