Mark Harmon is America's Favorite TV Personality, Followed by Ellen DeGeneres and Jimmy Fallon
Steve and Stephen (Harvey and Colbert, respectively) also make the top five
Steve and Stephen (Harvey and Colbert, respectively) also make the top five
NEW YORK, Jan. 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- NCIS ruled the roost when The Harris Poll most recently asked Americans to name their favorite current TV show, and now Mark Harmon, who leads the show's cast as Leroy Jethro Gibbs, takes back the role of America's favorite TV personality – a title he last held in 2011. He swaps places daytime TV host extraordinaire Ellen DeGeneres, ending her three-year reign atop the list.
These are some of the results of The Harris Poll® of 2,252 U.S. adults surveyed online between December 9 and 14, 2015; participants were asked – in an open-ended manner, with no prompting – to name their favorite TV personality. Full results of this study, including data tables, can be found here.
Party of Five
Talk show hosts are a running theme throughout the rest of the top five:
Just the Ten Eleven of Us
Hosting and acting gigs are more evenly represented among the remainder of the top 10 (which swells to the "top 11" this year thanks to a tie in the No. 10 spot):
Without a Trace
With some names returning to the list after their respective hiatuses, a couple of names from last year's top 10 didn't quite make the cut this time around:
Diff'rent Strokes
Though Mark Harmon tops the list overall, he certainly doesn't have a lock on every subset:
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Methodology
This Harris Poll was conducted online within the United States between December 9 and 14, 2015 among 2,252 adults (aged 18 and over). Figures for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, region and household income were weighted where necessary to bring them into line with their actual proportions in the population. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents' propensity to be online.
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The Harris Poll® #5, January 21, 2016
By Larry Shannon-Missal, Managing Editor, The Harris Poll
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