‘The Curious Case of Natalia Grace’ Cracks Top 25 Programs for TV Watch-Time
Meanwhile, sports continue to dominate much of last week’s live TV viewership, per Inscape.
Amidst a sports-heavy week of TV viewership, one new program managed to break through the noise: The Curious Case of Natalia Grace, which aired over the course of three nights on Investigation Discovery and captured 0.41% of all live, linear minutes watched May 29 through June 4, according to data from Inscape.
The docuseries dives deep into the mystery behind a supposedly 6-year-old Ukrainian orphan adopted in 2010 by an Indiana couple who quickly started to believe she was actually an adult woman with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, a rare form of dwarfism.
Some additional highlights about the top TV programs and networks for the week:
- The first two games of the NBA finals between the Heat and Nuggets take first place for watch-time with 1.62%.
- Additionally, there are several new sporting events that make the ranking: NASCAR Cup Series captured 0.68% of watch-time, putting it at No. 10, while 2023 Roland-Garros Tennis takes No. 11 (0.67%) and the 2023 women’s college softball world series lands at No. 12 (0.67%).
- On the network side of things, ABC takes first place with a 7.22% viewership share, fueled in part by the NBA finals. CBS holds steady week-over-week at No. 2 with 6.26% of watch-time.
- ESPN2 is the sole week-over-week ranking newcomer, landing at No. 24 with 1.00% of watch-time, fueled in part by college baseball.