LOS ANGELES 9 August 2019<\/p>\n
SERENGETI SOARS TO BECOME HIGHEST-RATED AMERICAN NATURE DOC SINCE 2013<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Discovery Channel\u2019s landmark series, SERENGETI by\u00a0American Idol<\/em>\u00a0creator\u00a0Simon Fuller and multi-award-winning\u00a0wildlife filmmaker\u00a0John Downer debuted as the highest-rated nature documentary on all of television since Discovery\u2019s\u00a0North America<\/em>\u00a0in May 2013 among P25-54, earning a 1.20 L+3 rating\u00a0on Discovery. The premiere was also Sunday night\u2019s most-watched cable telecast, averaging 3 million total\u00a0viewers on the network and ranking as Sunday\u2019s #1 cable telecast across all key men: M25-54, M18-49, and M18-34.<\/p>\n In addition, the premiere of SERENGETI reached 6.3 million total viewers across all of Sunday\u2019s airings on all Discovery networks including Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Science Channel and Discovery en Espa\u00f1ol. The series\u2019 home network, Discovery Channel ranked as the #1 non-sports cable network across M25-54, M18-49, M18-34, and Total Viewers in prime and SERENGETI became the network\u2019s most-watched series debut since\u00a0Naked and Afraid XL<\/em>\u00a0in summer 2015. The series also proved to be a tremendous co-viewing opportunity for Discovery Channel, as 18% of P25-54 watched with a K2-11, double the network\u2019s regular programming this year.<\/p>\n This landmark series is created and produced by Fuller and directed and produced by Downer. Nancy Daniels and Howard Swartz serve as executive producers for Discovery Channel.<\/p>\n SERENGETI<\/strong>\u00a0is made by XIX Entertainment and John Downer Productions and was commissioned for BBC TV by Tom McDonald, Head of Commissioning, Natural History and Specialist Factual.<\/p>\n Source: The Nielsen Company, L3 coverage area data; all ranks based on 000s; telecast ranks are 6a-6a, no exclusions, net ranks are 8-11p program-based strict daypart excl. breakouts. DGO from Google Analytics, Social from Nielsen Social. Reach=6a-6a, 6-min qualifier.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LOS ANGELES 9 August 2019 SERENGETI SOARS TO BECOME HIGHEST-RATED AMERICAN NATURE DOC SINCE 2013\u00a0 Discovery Channel\u2019s landmark series, SERENGETI by\u00a0American Idol\u00a0creator\u00a0Simon Fuller and multi-award-winning\u00a0wildlife filmmaker\u00a0John Downer debuted as the highest-rated nature documentary on all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[63,71,70],"class_list":["post-4035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xix","tag-documentary","tag-naturalhistory","tag-serengeti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4095,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions\/4095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}