Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are no Stormy Daniels and certainly no Michael Jackson, but their sit-down with Oprah Winfrey last night was a royal payoff for CBS.The two-hour Oprah with Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special pulled in 2.6 among adults 18-49 and 17.1 million viewers for the network in early numbers.Or put another way, right now, that’s more eyeballs than last September’s Emmys and last week’s Golden Globes put together!
Coming in low, the awards ceremonies had 6.4 million and 6.9 million viewers respectively and ratings of 1.3 and 1.5 when the dust settled and the final numbers were in.
That’s 22% less than the early numbers for Meghan and Harry in total audience and basically even with the Emmys and the Globes’ demo
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