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‘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 HBO 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. ....
Tiger Tackles The Rise, Fall And Resurgence Of A Controversial Golf Icon Directors Matthew Heineman and Matthew Hamacheck describe tracking Tiger Woods complicated legacy, and how privilege awarded them that opportunity. By Leigh Blickley Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost; Photos: Getty/AP In a lot of ways, the first part of our film is about all of these identities being thrust onto Tiger and the second part is about Tiger trying to find a life that was his, Matthew Hamacheck, one of the directors of Tiger, told HuffPost. On Thanksgiving night 2009, the legend of Tiger Woods imploded. He wasn’t just the Nike-sponsored pro golfer who broke racial barriers and major records in the game; he was also now a tabloid fixture. ....
“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. ....