We went to some friends to watch High School Musical 2 and after a while, I was the only one really watching it. Of course, their daughter was only 6 too and, like Sydney, probably not really in the target audience. Other friends, whose children range from 5 to 15, have been waiting for months to watch HSM2! And now, the numbers are out and it was a huge hit. The biggest cable show in quite some time it seems. If you've seen HSM2 or HSM, you'd know that it's a pretty hokey, a throw back almost to the Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) movies from my youth. So, maybe you don't need violence, bad language, blood & gore and sex to make something a hit!
Disney Channel's High School Musical 2 rocked the ratings Friday night, drawing an enormous 17.2 million viewers -- the most for any basic-cable telecast ever and nearly 10 million more than the original movie in January, according to preliminary ratings from Nielsen Media Research.
The sequel also drew the most kids of any telecast ever on broadcast or cable, with 6.1 million, and stands as TV's second-most-watched entertainment telecast with tweens 9-14, behind the 2004 Super Bowl.
The musical comedy, which ran from 8 p.m.-10 p.m. on the non-ad-supported network, beat out by 8% cable's previous record-holder with total viewers, a Sept. 23 Monday Night Football game on ESPN, which drew 16 million.
HSM2 was also TV's most-viewed Friday-night telecast in more than five years and ranks as cable's most-viewed original film ever, beating TNT's 2001 flick, Crossfire Trail, by about 2 million viewers, or 38%.
Link: High School Musical 2 Most-Viewed Cable Telecast Ever - 8/18/2007 4:51:00 PM - Broadcasting & Cable.
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