'The Fantasia Barrino Story’ rated as second largest ever for Lifetime channel

The Week of August 14 – 20
'The Fantasia Barrino Story' audience second largest ever for Lifetime channel

(August 23, 2006) Lifetime’s original movie, “The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life Is Not A Fairy Tale,” attracted the second largest audience in the cable channel’s 22-year history. Twelve million viewers watched the biopic on the American Idol winner, which had two airings during the past weekend. Four and a half million black households tuned in (about 30 percent of all viewers), making the feature first and second on the week’s top 25 most popular cable shows.

The only other cable offerings to attract at least a million households for the week were VH1’s “Flavor of Love 2” and BET’s reality series with Keyshia Coles. The shows finished third and fourth respectively. The overall network winner was BET with eight entries on the chart.

The total number of black households watching the top 25 cable shows during the third week of August was 19.3 million, an increase of 21 percent over the previous week.

Top 25 Cable Shows in Black Households

Rank | Program | Network | Rating | # of Homes

Source: Nielsen Media Research

Number of homes shown in millions. Ranking based
on percentage of black households.

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