Tony Dokoupil Returns to His Hosting Duties on Monday Night

During his first week, Gutman drew 4.1 million viewers, which was the program's best performance in 17 weeks and the first time it exceeded 4 million viewers since the end of March, according to media journalist Oliver Darcy of Status. Whether or not the audience is rejecting Dokoupil, embracing Gutman, or a little bit of both, remains to be seen. Dokoupil was one of Weiss's earliest staffing announcements after she took over the network in October.

He pulled 4 million viewers during the week of June 22, but he hadn't attracted more than that since late March, according to Status. CBS's evening news show has struggled to consistently hit the 4 million mark since Weiss took over.