{"id":1447056,"date":"2022-04-20T07:45:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T11:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1447056"},"modified":"2022-04-20T07:46:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T11:46:55","slug":"jon-stewarts-apple-tv-show-reportedly-struggling-drop-in-viewership-point-to-it-being-a-massive-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jon-stewarts-apple-tv-show-reportedly-struggling-drop-in-viewership-point-to-it-being-a-massive-flop\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart\u2019s Apple TV+ Show Reportedly Struggling, Drop In Viewership Point To It Being a Massive Flop"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjon-stewarts-apple-tv-show-reportedly-struggling-drop-in-viewership-point-to-it-being-a-massive-flop%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1447056&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>According to a recent report, comedian Jon Stewart\u2019s new Apple+-exclusive talk show has thus far failed to find an audience, with his disappointingly low viewership numbers failing to even graze those held by his contemporaries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158548\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Problem With Jon Stewart, YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/01\/05\/comedian-jon-stewart-accuses-j-k-rowling-of-promoting-anti-semitism-in-the-harry-potter-franchise\/\">Comedian Jon Stewart Accuses J.K. Rowling Of Promoting Anti-Semitism In The Harry Potter Franchise<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloombergquint.com\/onweb\/jon-stewart-s-the-problem-on-apple-tv-joins-streaming-talk-show-slump\">reported<\/a> by SambaTV via Bloomberg on April 18th, around 180,000 homes in the United States tuned in to watch The Problem with Jon Stewart when it made its debut on Apple TV+ back in September of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>However, as seen in Samba TV\u2019s metrics, audiences soon lost interest in Stewart\u2019s eponymously-named talk show, with only 40,000 U.S. homes \u2013 a 78% drop in viewership numbers since its premiere \u2013 tuning in to watch the show\u2019s fifth episode<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_145405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.01.19-04.16-themixnet-61e7909c225fe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-145405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Problem With Jon Stewart, YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Asked for comment on SambaTV\u2019s numbers, Apple TV+ head of documentaries and unscripted television Molly Thompson disagreed with their findings, telling Bloomberg, \u201c\u201dWe are thrilled that \u2018The Problem with Jon Stewart\u2019 has resonated with viewers all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe series has sparked complex conversations about critical issues, and we\u2019re proud to team with Jon for season two and beyond,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158547\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158547\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.20-12.46-themixnet-625f57d3d8cf0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Problem With Jon Stewart, YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While Apple TV+ has not shared official viewership numbers for The Problem with Jon Stewart, Bloomberg reports that numbers provided by Parrot Analytics show that the comedian\u2019s program \u201cis the eighth most in-demand talk show in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Subscribe and get our daily emails and follow us on social media.<\/h4>\n<div class=\"terms-privacy\">\n<p>By opting in, you agree to receive emails with the latest in Comic Culture from Bounding Into Comics. Your information will not be shared with or sold to 3rd parties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Further, the analytics site revealed that though audiences preferred Stewart\u2019s show to those hosted by James Corden and Ellen DeGeneres, they liked it less than those helmed by Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and Trevor Noah.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158551\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.20-12.46-themixnet-625f57d533fef.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Problem With Jon Stewart, YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Though unable to attract regular viewers, Stewart\u2019s show has gleamed some attention from the public thanks to controversy, particularly the on that arose from his accusation last December that renowned author J.K. Rowling of promoting anti-Semitism in the Harry Potter series with her depiction of the goblins running Gringotts Bank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s how you know Jews are still where they are,\u201d said Stewart at the time. \u201cTalking to people, what I say is, \u2018Have you ever seen a Harry Potter movie?\u2019 And people are all like, \u2018I love Harry Potter movies!\u2019 and I\u2019m like, \u2018You ever see the scenes in Gringotts Bank? Do you know what those folks that run the bank are? Jews.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_143797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-143797\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.20-12.46-themixnet-625f57d68d3a5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"864\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-143797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Harry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone (2001), Warner Bros. Pictures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Further, Stewart would even propose that Rowling was inspired by anti-Semitic text The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to conceive of her design for the mystical creatures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me show you this,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt\u2019s from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. I just want to show a caricature, and they\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, look at that. That\u2019s from Harry Potter, and you\u2019re like \u2018No. That\u2019s a caricature of a Jew from an anti-Semitic piece of literature.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_145408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.01.19-04.16-themixnet-61e7909ab9460.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-145408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Problem With Jon Stewart, YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cJ.K. Rowling was like, \u2018Can we get these guys to run our bank?\u2019\u201d said Stewart. \u201cAnd you\u2019re like, \u2018This is\u2026it\u2019s a wizarding world. It\u2019s a world where it\u2019s like. The train station has a half thing and no one can see it. And we can ride dragons and you\u2019ve got a pet owl. Who should run the bank? Jews.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though the controversial accusation was made in December 2021, it was not until January 2022 that users on social media took notice of this particular clip and began to counter-criticize Stewart for his unfounded comments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_143761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-143761\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.01.04-09.57-boundingintocomics-61d4c2c790b48.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-143761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Problem with Jon Stewart, YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Near immediately after facing this backlash, Stewart issued an apology and attempted to explain what he really meant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you remember, like, a month ago I recorded one of the podcasts with Henrik and Jay, and we were bulls\u2014tting all kinds of stuff,\u201d recalled the comedian in the following episode of his show. \u201cWe started talking about Bar Mitzvah, and then Jay said something like, \u2018What chapter of Harry Potter is that?\u2019 and we went off on a Harry Potter thing,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stewart explained, \u201cThere is no reasonable person that could\u2019ve watched it and not seen it as a light-hearted conversation amongst colleagues and chums having a laugh, enjoying ourselves about Harry Potter and my experience watching it for the first time in a theatre, as a Jewish guy, and how some tropes are so embedded in society that they\u2019re basically invisible\u2026 even in a considered process like movie-making.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/01\/05\/damage-control-jon-stewart-now-claims-he-never-accused-j-k-rowling-of-promoting-anti-semitism-in-harry-potter\/\">Damage Control: Jon Stewart Now Claims He Never Accused J.K. Rowling Of Promoting Anti-Semitism In Harry Potter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Newsweek et al, may eat my ass. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eRoYYeNRi1\">pic.twitter.com\/eRoYYeNRi1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Stewart (@jonstewart) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonstewart\/status\/1478791577573199875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo let me just say this,\u201d Stewart then reassured. \u201cSuper clearly, as clearly as I can. Hello, my name is Jon Stewart. I do not think J.K. Rowling is anti-Semitic. I did not accuse her of being anti-Semitic. I do not think that the Harry Potter movies are anti-Semitic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI really love the Harry Potter movies. Probably too much for a gentleman of my considerable age. So, I would just like to say that none of that is true, and not a reasonable person could not have looked at that conversation and not found it light-hearted.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_145406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145406\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.01.19-04.16-themixnet-61e79088153ed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-145406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Problem With Jon Stewart, YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As it was Newsweek that first brought to light the comments made by the comedian during his show\u2019s podcast, Stewart then proceeded to single out the news outlet and went rant against its business model.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo let me say this, instead, to Newsweek,\u201d he defiantly stated. \u201cYour business model is f\u2014king arson, and not the good kind of arson where they light stuff and control it to prevent forest fires in the future, the kind of arson where you\u2019re on the mountain and you\u2019ve got f\u2014king five minutes and you don\u2019t know where the dogs are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further declared, \u201cThat\u2019s your business model, and now all the s\u2014theads pile into this ridiculously out of context nonsense that you put out there, and let me tell you, Newsweek, you used to mean something. You were my go-to at the airport when the kiosk was out of Time Magazine. BOOM! Roasted.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158549\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.20-12.46-themixnet-625f57d86a0a9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Problem With Jon Stewart, YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What do you make of Stewart\u2019s new talk show on Apple TV+ being a massive flop? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section down below or on social media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/01\/18\/jon-stewart-says-he-finds-playing-the-national-anthem-before-sports-events-to-be-such-a-weird-ritual\/\">Jon Stewart Says He Finds Playing The National Anthem Before Sports Events To Be \u201cSuch A Weird Ritual\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent report, comedian Jon Stewart\u2019s new Apple+-exclusive talk show has thus far failed to find an audience, with his disappointingly low viewership numbers failing to even graze<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":1447175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}