Most watched USA cable TV movie ever
- Who
- High School Musical 2
- What
- 18,639,000 total number
- Where
- United States
- When
- 25 August 2007
As of 25 April 2016, no other direct-to-TV movie in the USA had been watched by more people than Disney's High School Musical 2 (USA, 2007). On its first day of broadcast (17 August 2007), the telecast achieved an unprecedented audience of 17.2 million, according to Nielsen; this rose to 18.22 million taking live+3 into account and 18.639 million based on live+7 figures.
Disney boasts numerous other high-audience telecasts, including Descendants (USA, 2015) with 12.2 million viewers – making it the most watched cable TV movie of 2015 – and Teen Beach Movie (USA, 2013) with 13.5 million, based on live+7 data.
HSM2 surpassed the TNT western Crossfire Trail, which was seen by 15.5 million viewers when it aired on 21 January 2001.