Disney’s “High School Musical 2″ smashes cable viewing records

August 20, 2007 | Filed Under Television News

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Disney’s kid-friendly High School Musical 2 – you guessed it, a musical set in high school – made television history on Friday night by smashing a number of TV viewing records:

Disney Channel’s highly anticipated “High School Musical 2″ danced its way to history Friday night when 17.24 million viewers tuned in, making the original movie’s debut the most-watched basic cable telecast of all time.

It also shattered the previous basic cable record for an entertainment program, surpassing the 12.5 million viewers who saw the 2001 premiere of the TNT Western “Crossfire Trail.”

Additionally, “Musical 2″ ranked as the most-watched TV telecast ever in kids 6-11 (6.1 million) as well as the most-watched entertainment telecast ever (and the second-highest-rated overall, behind only the 2004 Super Bowl) among tweens 9-14 (5.9 million).

Congrats to Disney. We haven’t seen it, we won’t see it, and we have nothing else to tell you about it. That is unless Vanessa Hudgens decides to go all Paris, release a sex tape, and give us some dirt to talk about. Which is highly unlikely and years off in any event.

If only Nathan Fillion could get that many people to tune in to any show he ever has on Fox. Then we’d still be enjoying Firefly and not have to stoop to watching the blah Heartland on TNT to get our Morena Baccarin fix.

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Jessie August 20, 2007 7:12 pm

k I have a bit of a secret…I may have watched the first one….and I may know the words to some of the songs…or most of them. They are stupidly catchy. So what the heck I’ll try and and watch the second one…yeah….no. That lasted all of 10 minutes

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