Fox News anchor Sean Hannity’s primetime show is feeling the heat since popular host Tucker Carlson was ousted from the network last week.

A new report reveals that Hannity’s 9 PM ET show had 2.7 million viewers on April 13th. In the last week, Hannity’s show has averaged around 1.7 million total viewers. Since Carlson’s absence in the 8 PM ET timeslot, Hannity’s show is taking a big hit.

“But now that he’s gone, so are most of Fox’s viewers. And now poor Sean, whose show followed Tucker’s, only has half his former viewers,” according to Showbiz411.

Roger Friedman of Showbiz411 pointed out: “It’s not helping that Hannity’s lead in now is not the fired Tucker Carlson but a miscellaneous show that has also dropped. The 8 PM slot is getting no numbers. But if Hannity was so dependent on Carlson’s numbers, what does that say for him anyway?”

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Earlier this week, Hannity said he was “stunned” after learning that the network had parted ways with Carlson.

Speaking on his radio show “The Sean Hannity Show,” Hannity — whose 9 PM ET program on Fox News begins immediately after Carlson’s now-former time slot — admitted that he had no idea that Carlson would be leaving.

“It’s very hard,” Hannity said. “My phone has been blowing up. The hard part for me is I don’t have a clue … I have no idea. Was it Tucker’s decision? Was it Fox’s? Was it a mutual agreement that they had? I don’t know. I guess people think that because I’ve been there the longest I’d have some knowledge or understanding of what’s going on, but… I just don’t.”

Carlson’s abrupt departure from Fox News appears to be impacting other hosts, including Hannity.

The Epoch Times published a report detailing how several primetime hosts suffered massive drops in cable news ratings last week.

Carlson’s finale a week ago drew 2.65 million viewers, according to Nielsen. The data shows that Brian Kilmeade’s substitute hosting gig for “Fox News Tonight” saw ratings of 2.59 million on Monday, 1.7 million on Tuesday, and 1.33 million on Wednesday, respectively. Last Wednesday, Carlson drew about 3 million viewers, Nielsen figures show.

But the 9 p.m. Fox News program hosted by Sean Hannity drew about 2.5 million on Monday, 2 million on Tuesday, and 1.7 million on Wednesday night, according to Nielsen. In comparison, Hannity drew about 2.6 million viewers the Wednesday a week before, the ratings show.

Laura Ingraham’s “The Ingraham Angle” drew 2.156 million on Wednesday, April 19. But this past Wednesday, two days after Carlson was confirmed gone, her show drew 1.55 million viewers.

Jesse Watters’ show also saw a decline. For Wednesday, it saw an audience of 1.558 million, but a week prior, it generated 2.1 million.

Over the weekend, neighbors and residents of a small Maine town where Carlson spends his summers have revealed his state of mind immediately after he was taken off the air.

Following his firing from Fox News, Carlson received messages of support from locals in Woodstock, Maine, where he spends most of his summers.

Despite being a polarizing figure in the national political scene, residents in Woodstock describe Carlson as a good neighbor, and they say they have never experienced any antagonism from him in person.

“More time for fishing?” friend and carpenter Patrick Fenney asked Carlson in a text message at around lunchtime on Monday, the day CEO Suzanne Scott reportedly told the now-former host his show was being taken off the air.

“He called me back at 1 and said he found out about it a half hour before I did,” Fenney told the news outlet on Tuesday as he stood inside Carlson’s satellite TV studio that he helped Carlson build in an old barn downtown.

“He told me it started out as a normal day. He got up, wrote the show, and then he got the phone call saying it was all over and that they were going to announce it,” Fenney said. “He was pretty shocked. He asked them why and they wouldn’t give him a reason.”