Will Ferrell’s ‘America’ spikes HBO’s ratings

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by James Hibberd | March 17, 2009 at 11:59 am | View Comments

Willferrell6_th"Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America — A Final Night with George W. Bush" drew HBO's largest audience for a comedy special in five years.

"America" drew 2.3 million viewers, the most since “Chris Rock: Never Scared” in 2004.

Saturday night's spoof of the Bush years was followed by a strong Sunday evening, with "Big Love" having its second-largest audience of the season (2.3 million viewers) and "Eastbound & Down" garnering its biggest viewership yet (950,000 viewers). "Eastbound" is also up 41% at this point compared with its lackluster season premiere.

HBO also put pressure on competitors, with Showtime's "United States of Tara" hitting a season low. (550,000 viewers)

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  • Jimmy // Mar 17, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    This show looks fantastic. Another production that just got announced today is Mark Cuban playing Raymond Babbit in Rain Man 2. So says Cuban’s twitter page

    Read more at
    http://www.thomaspeep.com/?p=472

  • Arlo // Mar 17, 2009 at 5:27 pm

    Will Farwell is an idiot. I would love to see him do a spoof on B.O. Things like B.O.’s reliance on the teleprompter, his pointing finger, his stuttering, etc. would be much more interesting and amusing on the stupid lines Farwell had on G.W.
    It was the worst presentation I ever saw. It wasn’t funny, amusing or worth watching. Tell Mr. Farwell that he is not worth watching.

  • Kiala // Mar 17, 2009 at 6:27 pm

    Farwell. Now that’s funny. Actually, I’d like to watch a sitcom about B.O. and Farwell. They could be, like, roommates and one is messy and the other one is the President.

  • whales vagina // Mar 22, 2009 at 11:19 pm

    Screw you jimmy that shit was great.

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