Bruce Jenner Interview Nabs Nearly 17 Million Viewers
Bruce Jenner’s two-hour special interview raked in 16.9 million viewers Friday night, pulling in big numbers for ABC.
Diane Sawyer conducted Bruce Jenner’s first interview about his gender transition as a 20/20 exclusive, where the reality TV star announced “I am a woman.”
The interview will rank as the week’s top-rated program and marks a nearly four-point increase from last week’s ratings for “Shark Tank” and “20/20” in the 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. hours, respectively.
Jenner’s interview was a big hit online as well, drawing 972,000 tweets from 403,000 people, making it the most social Friday telecast of all time not including sport events.
Jenner will also star in an eight-part docu-series on E!, documenting his life as a transgender woman. The show will premiere in July.
