Post by Admin on Mar 31, 2015 17:24:17 GMT -4
The Walking Dead may have dominated the dial on Sunday night, but it did not stop HBO from setting a handsome record with its latest documentary premiere.
Scientology's Final Say On 'Going Clear'
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Alex Gibney's two-hour exposé on the Church of Scientology, nabbed nearly 1.7 million viewers during its premiere telecast. And while that number is sure to grow once HBO-Go plays, encores and DVR views are taken into account, it already represents the network's most watched doc premiere since Spike Lee's four-part When the Levees Broke aired in 2006. (The Hurricane Katrina feature nabbed 1.75 million viewers.)
For a more recent comparison, Going Clear's audience also bests any individual same-day performance earned by buzzy doc miniseries The Jinx. With the latest time-shifting stats, Andrew Jarecki's six-part television event about Robert Durst has thus far averaged 3.2 million weekly viewers.
HBO became the latest cable network to nix same-day ratings reports at the top of the year in response to more and more viewers opting for delayed viewing. The pay-cable network soon will see its audience shift (and likely grow) even more when it launches its over-the-top streaming service HBO Now in April. The service will open up the network's roster of original programming, as well as its film catalog, to non-cable-subscribers for the first time.
If anyone missed this like I did then it will rerun tomorrow at 12:PM ET on Wednesday Afternoon. Record it if your working....I heard it was very good.
C
