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Jason Kelce has reason to be a bit glum. His first episode of "They Call It Late Night With Jason Kelce" averaged a mere 290,000 viewers on ESPN, per Puck’s John Ourand. That's not good.

Luckily for ESPN, all of the chaos at Fox Sports 1 due to a lawsuit that makes bombshell allegations against Skip Bayless and Joy Taylor has dominated

The ratings for the debut episode of the former Eagles center’s Friday night/Saturday morning talk show, “They Call It Late Night with Jason Kelce,” were “not particularly good,” in the words of Puck sports business expert John Ourand.

In addition to joining "Monday Night Countdown" as an analyst, the future Hall of Famer and his brother, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, signed a deal with Amazon's Wondery worth over $100 million for their podcast, "New Heights."

Barkley was happy to talk about Saquon Barkley and the Eagles, but his best remarks were about the Sixers and Joel Embiid.

The debut of Jason Kelce's new ESPN late-night talk show highlighted the host's affability and the challenge of making late-night TV.

Jason Kelce has tried his hand at late-night television, He hosted the debut episode of “They Call It Late Night with Jason Kelce,” Friday on ESPN.

Jason Kelce’s highly anticipated late-night TV debut was met with mixed reviews, as calls to rethink the show grow louder following a lackluster premiere.