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Two years after NBC stunned the industry with boffo ratings for its live presentation of “The Sound of Music,” the network was back at it Thursday night with “The Wiz Live!,” which drew impressive numbers of its own. The event also set a Nielsen Twitter record as most social live special program in the more than four years of tracking such numbers.
Despite facing a highly rated NFL game on CBS, last night’s live musical, whose all-star cast included Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige and David Alan Grier, averaged roughly a 3.3 rating/11 share in adults 18-49 and about 11.1 million viewers overall from 8 to 11 p.m., according to preliminary Nielsen estimates. These early numbers should rise in the finals since the event wrapped about 10:45, and the viewership numbers for the 10:30 p.m. half-hour were noticeably lower than earlier in the night. The only NBC entertainment series to fare »
- Rick Kissell
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