‘Girl Like Me,’ Lifetime’s biggest original movie, delivers nearly two million

The Week of June 19 – 25
'Girl Like Me,' Lifetime’s biggest original movie, gets nearly two million black homes

(June 28, 2006) The Lifetime network scored a huge success with “A Girl Like Me,” the most watched original movie ever shown on the cable channel. Of the 5.1 million viewers who tuned in, 1.8 million were black, making the movie the most watched cable program in black households during the fourth week of June. The based on real life drama of a Latino teenaged boy who decides to live out his life as a female, “A Girl Like Me” was the only cable show to attract more than one million home for the week.

BET was the clear overall winner on the list, with seven shows on the top 25. Disney fared well with summertime viewers who gave the channel five shows on the list. The total number of black households watching the top 25 was 14.8 million, a drop of four percent over the previous week’s 15.5 million.

Top 25 Cable Shows in Black Households

Rank | Title of Program | Network | % of AA HHs | No. of HHs

Source: Nielsen Npower. Rank based on Household Projection
African American Ratings and Projections are based on 13.3 million TV homes.
For inclusion in the Rankings, Telecast must be Promoted as Distinct Programs and be of 5 minutes minimum duration. All Telecasts indicated as Breakouts are excluded from this Report.
This report includes only those cable networks who supply program names to the industry.
Any Network that does not supply program names is not included in the report.
Program Estimates for HBO, CINEMAX, SHOWTIME and THE MOVIE CHANNEL reflect only tuning to the Primary Plex or channel of these Networks

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