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Date	Process	Result
August 14, 2023	Peer review	Reviewed
September 18, 2023	Featured list candidate	Promoted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 3, 2023.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the debut season of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver beat seasoned HBO counterpart Real Time with Bill Maher in the ratings?

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:38, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the first season of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver received more average weekly viewers than its HBO talk show counterpart Real Time with Bill Maher? Source: O'Connell, Mikey (September 25, 2014). "John Oliver's Talk Show Ratings Edging Out HBO Colleague Bill Maher". The Hollywood Reporter.
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Moved to mainspace by MyCatIsAChonk (talk). Self-nominated at 02:11, 21 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (season 1); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Article long enough, created recently enough to nominate and with no detected copyvios. QPQ met, interesting hook, and the article complies with Wikipedia's policies. --NoonIcarus (talk) 12:39, 22 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]