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EXCLUSIVE: Diane Sawyer‘s heavy dive into nan life and activity of fittingness guru Richard Simmons has piqued assemblage interest.
The ABC News special, which aired connected May 12, has tallied 10.2M viewers to-date crossed ABC, Disney+ and Hulu, per a operation of Nielsen Big Data + Panel and Disney’s soul metrics. That includes 7 days of linear viewing for nan original, arsenic good arsenic conscionable nether a period of streaming viewership (through June 2), arsenic good arsenic unrecorded + same-day numbers for nan June 1 encore telecast.
Monday’s encore airing scored astir 2.7M viewers alone, ranking arsenic nan apical broadcast show of nan night, according to Nielsen.
The Mystery of Richard Simmons – A Diane Sawyer Special managed to summation its assemblage by 57% complete nan 4.73M who initially tuned successful unrecorded + same-day past month.
The L+SD assemblage already stood arsenic nan most-watched ABC News Primetime Special in nearly 6 years, since August 2020’s Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute to a King.
That first linear airing besides led nan 9 p.m. clip play against each non-sports programming, Nielsen information shows.
The Mystery of Richard Simmons – A Diane Sawyer Special explores nan beloved fittingness guru’s emergence to fame, his taste impact, and nan last decade of his life aft stepping distant from nan nationalist eye.
The special was produced by ABC News Studios. Mark Robertson and David Sloan are senior executive producers, and Tess Scott Davidson is executive producer.
