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TV Ratings: Beyonce's HBO Doc Pulls 1.8 Million Viewers

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The Saturday night film is the cable network's most-watched documentary effort in nearly 10 years.


Beyonce proved a huge draw for HBO on Saturday night.


The intimate documentary about the singer, Beyonce: Life is But a Dream, pulled 1.8 million viewers during its inaugural outing at 9 p.m. ET. It's the largest audience for a HBO doc since Nielsen revised its method of measuring viewership in 2004.


The only other documentary to approach Beyonce's haul was previous record-setter When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. The Spike Lee miniseries about the devastation caused to New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina earned 1.7 million viewers in 2006.


Life is But a Dream's handsome haul pulled three times the ratings of recent first-runs for HBO's Sunday series Girls.

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aaameeting 20th-Feb-2013 02:23 pm (UTC)
On MTV...big difference. People don't pay for MTV.

I am a Beyonce hater, but c'mon!
mmbien 20th-Feb-2013 02:00 pm (UTC)
it was so boring
luvthatdrtywata 20th-Feb-2013 02:56 pm (UTC)
unlike finn, who is utterly fascinating. and by fascinating i mean hot. really, really hot.
saltonmycuts 20th-Feb-2013 07:38 pm (UTC)
ia it kept dragging.
habibty 20th-Feb-2013 02:01 pm (UTC)
good for her!

gaga's special! (not documentary oop @ me) got i think 1.2m or something.. never saw any ads for that tho.. best thing about beyonce's doc.. ?

blue <3



Edited at 2013-02-20 02:03 pm (UTC)
fabouluz 20th-Feb-2013 02:08 pm (UTC)
That was the highlight, Blue is so freaking gorgeous.
melns 20th-Feb-2013 02:21 pm (UTC)
she's very cute, although the way B showed her was annoying, with the person standing in front of the camera and then casually revealing the baby and Beyonce holding her as to show off. those parts were she was just cuddling her among the family were much more likeable
habibty 20th-Feb-2013 03:11 pm (UTC)
i loved the feeding/cuddling part! but i get that she wanted to show her off, she is so damn cute
luvthatdrtywata 20th-Feb-2013 02:57 pm (UTC)
yeah gaga's special didn't get much promo but if i had to sit through another beyonce commercial i was gonna go mad. it actually made me not even want to watch it tbh.
lulufairybubble 20th-Feb-2013 02:03 pm (UTC)
Beyonce' and Jay Z...that's real love y'all. That's the real damn deal
goldoyster 20th-Feb-2013 03:20 pm (UTC)
yeah, with that much money there is no reason for them to be together other than actual, true love.

I didn't watch the documentary cause I have no love for Beyonce, but I still respect them as exemplary people.
gaga 20th-Feb-2013 05:36 pm (UTC)
omg they're so in love it's sickening
rainbowren 20th-Feb-2013 02:04 pm (UTC)
And that's how you do it.


rainbowren 20th-Feb-2013 02:16 pm (UTC)
Um, did you not read? You can't really compare Beys ratings to a special that was aired in 2001, when HBO hadn't even implemented the new Nielsen ratings system.
lestat 20th-Feb-2013 02:17 pm (UTC)
you tried i guess
mammary_glands 20th-Feb-2013 02:27 pm (UTC)
i would hate to see you as an economist
rogue 20th-Feb-2013 05:20 pm (UTC)
damn she is so beautiful
like how do you just end up with the features she has
tina and matthew arent even as cute as she is
fabouluz 20th-Feb-2013 02:08 pm (UTC)
I watched it on youtube and was pretty un-impressed for the most part, some stuff was from her tour dvd BTS anyway, it wasn't totally new.
therearewords 20th-Feb-2013 02:33 pm (UTC)
Do you still have the link or is just legal/easy to find?
fabouluz 20th-Feb-2013 02:36 pm (UTC)
I just searched for it on youtube and it was the first link that came up.
shesasuperhero 20th-Feb-2013 02:12 pm (UTC)
Does anyone know where I can watch it online? My mom cancelled HBO.
anchellada 20th-Feb-2013 02:30 pm (UTC)
OMG TY
nastyposition 20th-Feb-2013 04:38 pm (UTC)
this disgusting quality rn
anchellada 20th-Feb-2013 02:15 pm (UTC)
still havent watched this. and i call myself a beyonce stan...
dirtysidedown 20th-Feb-2013 02:18 pm (UTC)
i can't find it tbh.
aaameeting 20th-Feb-2013 02:25 pm (UTC)
Google.
sojourn_storm 20th-Feb-2013 02:47 pm (UTC)
above your post are some links
tellthylove 20th-Feb-2013 04:00 pm (UTC)
same and I have hbogo lol
itsemm 20th-Feb-2013 02:15 pm (UTC)
FLOP.
fromyourashes 20th-Feb-2013 02:17 pm (UTC)
Supernatural gets more viewers on a shitty night. I'm pretty surprised, tbh.

addicteddisplay 20th-Feb-2013 02:26 pm (UTC)
lmfao, yes.
gnarlsbarkley 20th-Feb-2013 02:46 pm (UTC)
ppl have to pay for hbo, don't be dense ty
rainbowren 20th-Feb-2013 02:58 pm (UTC)
Do you not know the difference between network and premium cable television?
fionaapple 20th-Feb-2013 03:05 pm (UTC)
lol seriously. 1.8 mil premiere for a HBO doc is great numbers for them.
fromyourashes 20th-Feb-2013 03:09 pm (UTC)
Lord. I should have included "rme" in the original comment. I figured comparing a basic show on the CW to something as big as an HBO special about Bey would be recognized as sarcasm without my having to spell it out. My fault.
lestat 20th-Feb-2013 02:19 pm (UTC)
i find it so adorable that haters keep track of beyonce's tag. <333

i watched it last night and i really enjoyed it. ppl are just mad that beyonce refuses to give people all the gory, gritty details of her life and it's sad how thirsty people are for her private life. i was !! at her telling she was pregnant at billboard, esp because that was one of my favorite performances ever. and blue ivy shits on all these other celeb babies.
ediesedgwick 20th-Feb-2013 02:27 pm (UTC)
u realize ppl can see posts without subscribing to a tag right?
lestat 20th-Feb-2013 02:29 pm (UTC)
it's usually the same handful in her posts tho, particularly at the beginning. it's not that hard to figure who keep tabs on her tag for hate.
cluelessraf 20th-Feb-2013 03:29 pm (UTC)
pretty sure it's the same users coming in to hate: gorlplz, itsemm, retromaury and gaybash will make an appearance eventually.
rainbowren 20th-Feb-2013 02:30 pm (UTC)
ia!

<>i find it so adorable that haters keep track of beyonce's tag</i>

Lol they're always the first to comment, it's so obvious at this point.
habibty 20th-Feb-2013 03:14 pm (UTC)
lol @ them deleting their flop comments as well
troy_macclure 20th-Feb-2013 04:52 pm (UTC)
Where is the lie? I usually scroll past shit I can't stand especially when there's several posts about that same subject, but whatever floats their boat, I guess.
poopanna 20th-Feb-2013 02:20 pm (UTC)
It was interesting, and I like her music, but I agree with the critics: there was no substance. It was basically a piece that wanted to get people who wouldn't buy her concert tickets to buy her concert tickets.

And every time she calls herself a songwriter I'm like
lenra 20th-Feb-2013 03:55 pm (UTC)
lol i love this gif
poopanna 20th-Feb-2013 04:05 pm (UTC)
I use it frequently because it's lovely :)
preciate_ya 20th-Feb-2013 04:17 pm (UTC)
That gif kills me everytime. It's glorious.
mrcelebrity 20th-Feb-2013 02:21 pm (UTC)
I feel like Blue Ivy is going to be one of those kids that throws these tantrums in public when they're not given what they want.
dirtysidedown 20th-Feb-2013 02:26 pm (UTC)
why would she be deprived of what she wants? she can and will be spoiled rotten.
nachomuchacho 20th-Feb-2013 02:46 pm (UTC)
Spoiling your kids "rotten" isn't a good thing. It's good to teach limits.
blazinguns 20th-Feb-2013 02:57 pm (UTC)
People with that upbringing usually end up awful, narcissistic assholes. Hope they are more kind to her than to allow that to happen.
kwikimart 20th-Feb-2013 03:28 pm (UTC)
She is actually still a baby and you idiots are already predicting her downfall
cluelessraf 20th-Feb-2013 03:31 pm (UTC)
Wow.. really? Beyonce said she was documenting everything for Blue so she could see that everything she has is because of hard work they went through to get to this level.
wits 20th-Feb-2013 02:25 pm (UTC)
Life is But a Dream's handsome haul pulled three times the ratings of recent first-runs for HBO's Sunday series Girls.

gnarlsbarkley 20th-Feb-2013 02:48 pm (UTC)
mte, that's what i enjoyed the most out of this post
addicteddisplay 20th-Feb-2013 02:27 pm (UTC)
it was really boring imo
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