UPDATED WITH FINAL NUMBERS: Prince Harry courted about 11.2M U.S. viewers for his sit down with Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes on Sunday, in keeping with closing dwell + same-day Nielsen information.
The quantity can definitely be seen as a win for CBS and for 60 Minutes, which had its largest viewers this season by a margin of about half one million individuals.
But it surely nonetheless falls wanting the 17.1M individuals who watched the dwell broadcast of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s tell-all with Oprah Winfrey, which additionally aired on CBS, in 2021.
It’s honest to notice that the couple’s sit down with Oprah was the primary time they’d spoken publicly concerning the experiences that led them to step away from the Royal Household, which they’ve now carried out a number of occasions over. It additionally raked in a number of million extra viewers within the three days following the interview, so delayed viewing could possibly be substantial on this case as nicely.
The episode of 60 Minutes was additionally dwell streamed on Paramount+ and CBS TVE, the place the viewers was additionally up from the season-to-date common — although CBS didn’t present any particular numbers.
On social media, the interview drove the season’s largest variety of impressions since its September premiere with 923M (in comparison with 1.6B social impressions for the season’s debut).
The interview on CBS adopted an analogous tell-all that aired within the UK on ITV with Tom Bradby. That broadcast was watched by a lackluster 4.1M individuals.
In each sit-downs, Harry was pretty forthcoming with particulars about his relationship together with his household, together with a 2019 bodily altercation together with his brother Prince William as a consequence of “a buildup of frustration” concerning the British tabloids. He instructed Cooper that he had not spoken to his brother or his father, King Charles, “for some time.” Requested if he may see ever returning to be a full-time member of the royal household, he mentioned, “I can’t see that occuring.”
He additionally touched on his father King Charles III’s marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles and the impression of the dying of his mom Princess Diana.
Harry’s media tour is timed to the publication of his memoir Spare, which hits cabinets tomorrow. He will even seem two extra occasions on U.S. TV right this moment – on The Late Present and Good Morning America.
The press additionally follows the debut of his and Markle’s Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan, which debuted in December and rapidly grew to become the streamer’s largest documentary premiere ever with the primary three episodes managing 81.55M hours considered in its debut week.
