Wendy Williams Documentary Draws Strong Ratings For Lifetime, Beating ‘The Prison Confessions Of Gypsy Rose Blanchard’

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Lifetime‘s two-night documentary special Where is Wendy Williams? has set a new ratings record for the network. The documentary averaged 1.2 million total viewers over the two nights in Nielsen Live+3, and 6.2 million total viewers across linear and digital platforms to date.

The network says Where is Wendy Williams? is Lifetime’s best new non-fiction performance in two years since the Janet Jackson documentary, with total viewers, W25-64 and A25-64, beating out January’s The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard which is now ranked No.

2 in L+SD. On premiere night on February 24, Where is Wendy Williams? was the No. 1 program across all of TV in total social interactions (Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube), according to Lifetime.

The full documentary will repeat starting tonight at 7pm ET/PT and again on Saturday, March 2 at 1:30pm ET/PT. The documentary aired just days after Williams was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.