‘Janet Jackson’ Is Lifetime’s Most-Watched Doc Since ‘Surviving R. Kelly’

Lifetime’s Janet Jackson four-hour docuseries averaged 3.1 million viewers across Lifetime and A&e. The delivery on Lifetime was the cable channel’s best for a nonfiction program since “Surviving R. Kelly” in early 2019.“Janet Jackson.” — the documentary series’ official, stylized title — got off to the best start for any nonfiction program on all of cable since “The Last Dance” about Michael Jordan and the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls, aired on ESPN and ESPN2 in Spring 2020.Here’s how “Janet” broke down, per episode, according to Nielsen:Hour 1: 2.8 million viewersHour 2: 3.2 million viewersHour 3: 3.0 million viewersHour 4: 3.2 million viewersThe Janet doc also accrued 3.7 million video views across Lifetime’s and A&e’s TV Everywhere platforms. Tallying up all of the airings on linear and all of the video views on digital, “Janet Jackson.” reached more than 15.7 million (unduplicated) total viewers.That all-in sum includes numbers from Adobe Analytics,...