Mark Harmon, who is the lead cast of NCIS as Leroy Jethro Gibbs, names as America’s favorite TV personality in the The Harris Poll – a title he last held in 2011. NCIS was also voted as Americans’ favorite current TV shows in 2015. Mark Darmon swaps places daytime TV host extraordinaire Ellen DeGeneres, ending her three-year reign atop the list.
Ellen DeGeneres falls one spot to No. 2 this year. She was at the No.1 spot the last three years.
The Harris Poll® was conducted on 2,252 U.S. adults via online between December 9 and 14, 2015. The third to fifth places were all taken by the talk show hosts, namely Jimmy Fallon, Steve Harvey and Stephen Colbert.
The Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon, a newcomer to the list last year, repeats in the No. 3 spot.Steve Harvey – host of both his eponymous talk show and the game show Family Feud – holds onto the No. 4 spot. It’s worth noting that polling occurred prior to Harvey’s much-discussed hosting gig at the 2015 Miss Universe Pageant.Stephen Colbert, who filed his last Report (rhymes with “out the door”) in 2014 before taking over The Late Show from David Letterman this year, rises two spots to No. 5.
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):
The Big Bang Theory’sJim Parsons falls one spot to No. 6 this year.
Blue Bloods’Tom Selleck rises one spot to No. 7.
Jon Stewart, who left his long and beloved run on The Daily Show this year, ties for the No. 8 spot with Last Man Standing‘sTim Allen, who returns to the list for the first time since 2005.
Jerry Seinfeld, whose streaming series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee recently featured President Obama, is the first part of the aforementioned 10th place tie.
The other end of that tie is held by Oprah Winfrey, who returns to the list after last year’s absence – her first since the list’s inception.
Oprah Winfrey returns to the list this year after last year’s absence. Though she may not be leading the list presently, it’s worth noting that she’s held the top spot more times than anyone else.
