THE TALK, CBS's new daytime talk show, delivered its largest weekly audience for the second consecutive week and matched its best women 18-49 and women 25-54 ratings, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending Jan. 14.

THE TALK posted a 1.8/05 household rating with 2.40m viewers, 1.2/05 in women 25-54 and 0.9/05 in women 18-49. This was the series' largest weekly audience and best household ratings to date, and matchesits best weekly delivery in both women 25-54 (with the week ending Dec. 3, 2010) and women 18-49 (with the weeks ending Dec. 3, 2010, and Jan. 7, 2011).

THE TALK (weekdays 2:00-3:00 PM, ET/1:00-2:00 PM, PT) is co-hosted by Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete and Leah Remini. Brad Bessey, Gilbert and John Redmann are executive producers.