TV Series · 2005 · TV Series · 2000s
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Scored from 28 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
Craig Ferguson hosted CBS's post-Letterman hour from January 2005 to December 2014, taping in Los Angeles. The Scottish-born comedian opened each night with a largely improvised monologue delivered without cue cards, often talking straight to camera about his own life — emigrating to the United States, getting sober, his father's death — before turning to viewer emails, sketches and one or two guests. He refused pre-interview questions and tore up his notes on air, and closed with 'What did we learn on the show tonight, Craig?' The regular cast grew to include a robot skeleton sidekick, Geoff Peterson, and a two-man pantomime horse named Secretariat, on a set that made a running joke of its own small budget.
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005) is a television series IMDb files under the comedy, music and talk-show genres. Episodes run about 45m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is TV-14.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s television series — 1,360 of them. Only 28 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 29 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2000s (1,360 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 28.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
