‘Tiger’ Tees Off as HBO’s Most-Watched Sports Doc in 2 Years
Part 1 of two-part documentary draws most viewers in the genre since Bill Simmons’ “Andre the Giant”Tony Maglio | January 12, 2021 @ 1:26 PM Last Updated: January 12, 2021 @ 2:05 PM
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Part 1 of HBO’s Tiger Woods documentary, “Tiger,” hooked 639,000 total viewers across all platforms on Sunday.
That’s not amazing, but it is better than par for the course. The 639,000 total viewers mark the best performance for an HBO Sports doc since Bill Simmons’ “Andre the Giant” walked through the curtain back in April 2018.
The “Tiger” tally includes all platforms so yes, streaming is counted here and a TV encore. A spokesperson for HBO estimated there have been “about 15” HBO Sports titles in the genre between the two docs.
“Both of us had read that and sort of thought that, well this would be a fascinating way to start the film because I think introducing our film through Earl’s words was always going to be fascinating,” Hamachek said. “The problem was that, while Gary had written about it and several people had sort of taken what Gary said and wrote it and used it and regurgitated it, nobody had ever seen the actual footage or heard Earl’s words before. This was really just sort of cocktail napkin scribblings of a journalist who was there.”
A month into making their movie, the Matts reached out to the Haskins organization.