Thanks to copious amounts of struggle and slander, the Lifetime Aaliyah movie was a success.
Yes, you read that right.
The memes created as a result of the biopic’s questionable casting catapulted the Saturday night premiere into the talk of the Twitter town.
Via Deadline:
Lifetime’s much-criticized biopic of the late R&B singer Aaliyah shot to the top of the week’s Twitter TV charts, beating out The Walking Dead even as critics, led by superstar hip-hop producer Timbaland, beat up the production online and beyond.
It didn’t hurt the show in either its broadcast ratings, which were very solid for a Lifetime movie of the week, or with the Twitter TV ratings that Nielsen also puts out. There, the show set off nearly 1 million tweets seen by 3.4 million people during the broadcast or in the three hours before and after.
Given the lingering stink raised by Timbaland and other music notables over the film’s shortcomings in portraying the late R&B princess, it’s a good guess that Nielsen’s numbers don’t come close to capturing all the conversation that went on long after that three-hour window elapsed.
A tearful Wendy Williams fired back at the critics of her executive producing skills, but she was immediately trounced on once again.
Deadline also created a ratings chart to put everything in perspective, although we’re definitely certain this isn’t the kind of win Lifetime had in mind.
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Photos: Lifetime, Deadline
