Friday Cable Ratings: Killing Jesus #1 in Demo and Total on Fox

After premiering to record high ratings on NatGeo last Sunday night, the film version of Bill O’Reilly‘s Killing Jesus aired on Fox News Friday night and was the highest-rated show on cable news in both the 25-54 demo and total viewers.

Between the hours of 8 and 11 p.m. ET, Killing Jesus averaged 1.860M total viewers and 385K in the demo, far outpacing the competition on CNN and MSNBC. The demo rating represented a 16% increase over the network’s Friday primetime average during the first quarter of 2015.

Here are the rest of your Friday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  171	New Day  117	Morning Joe  73
5 pm	The Five  251	Blitzer  133	Schultz  67
6 pm	Baier  251	Blitzer  112	Sharpton  64
7 pm	Van Susteren  193	Burnett  125	Matthews  116
8 pm	Killing Jesus  388	Cooper  127	Hayes  56
9 pm	Killing Jesus  351	Special  85	Maddow  69
10 pm	Killing Jesus  416	Special/Spotlight  133/71	Investigates  124
11 pm	Killing Jesus  253	Finding Jesus  155	Investigates  125
PRIME TIME	385	105	83
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  852	New Day  338	Morning Joe  353
5 pm	The Five  1.799	Blitzer  478	Schultz  379
6 pm	Baier  1.848	Blitzer  403	Sharpton  392
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.506	Burnett  446	Matthews  590
8 pm	Killing Jesus  1.956	Cooper  569	Hayes  327
9 pm	Killing Jesus  1.789	Special  432	Maddow  513
10 pm	Killing Jesus  1.834	Special/Spotlight  398/249	Investigates  244
11 pm	Killing Jesus  833	Finding Jesus  393	Investigates  282
PRIME TIME	1.861	442	362
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data