Last night #TheBible drew 14.8 million total viewers to become the #1 cable entertainment telecast of the year!
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HISTORY (@History) March 04, 2013The Seth MacFarlane-hosted Academy Awards might have won more than 40 million viewers for ABC, but The History Channel is showing it can be a contender as well. Today the cable network is celebrating tremendous viewership for the first installment of its five-part miniseries, “The Bible,” which premiered last night. Roma Downey, who created the series with her husband, Mark Burnett, tweeted the good news as well.
Thank you for tuning in & making #TheBible the MOST-WATCHED TV show of the night & the #1 TV telecast of THE YEAR!—
Roma Downey (@RealRomaDowney) March 04, 2013
Thanks so much for watching tonight, #thebible was trending on @twitter. #amazing. Sundays in March 8p @History @RealRomaDowney—
Mark Burnett (@MarkBurnettTV) March 04, 2013
@History that was great last last night—
Antonio sabato jr (@antoniosabatojr) March 04, 2013
Congrats to @RealRomaDowney &
@MarkBurnettTV on the stunning success of #TheBible – ratings of appropriately biblical proportions!—
Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) March 04, 2013
Viewers also managed to drive #TheBible to the top of Twitter’s trending list.
THANKS for helping make #TheBible the #1 Most Watched Show on TV last night.#13Million saw episode 1. Also #1 on Twitterl—
Rick Warren (@RickWarren) March 04, 2013
@bibleseries Number 1 in television. Number 1 on Twitter. Number 1 on the web. #thebible—
Mark Burnett (@MarkBurnettTV) March 04, 2013
19th century = Nietzsche says God is dead. 20th = More people slaughtered than previous 19 centuries combined. 21st = #TheBible is trending—
The Young Cons (@YoungCons) March 04, 2013
