Beyoncé's HBO documentary breaks HBO ratings records

the GRIO REPORT - Beyoncé's HBO documentary 'Life Is But A Dream' may have garnered mixed reviews, but it pulled in record ratings for HBO.

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BeyoncĂ©’s HBO documentary Life Is But A Dream may have garnered mixed reviews, but it pulled in record ratings for HBO.

The superstar’s documentary had the “largest audience for a HBO doc since Nielsen revised its method of measuring viewership in 2004,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

BeyoncĂ©’s documentary premiere drew 1.8 million viewers, breaking the previous record of 1.7 million set by Spike Lee’s Hurricane Katrina opus When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts in 2006.

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