So yes, to the extent that my audience represented a polling sample of the 500 theaters showing this week's event, there were around two theaters worth of people willing to pay $15 a pop for tickets to see a projected version of a 90 minute television movie that had aired for free several nights earlier. But I can say that both of the evenings were so crowded that my local multiplex (the Muvico Thousand Oaks) opened a second auditorium to meet demand several days after I purchased my tickets.Īnd my tickets, by the way, were for not terribly great seats in a decent sized auditorium that had been very nearly sold out a week prior to showtime. Especially as said screenings took place after the televised showing and just days (or hours) before said program would be available on various Video On Demand services. Since the film had already debuted to huge numbers in the United Kingdom, around 8.4 million viewers, with presumably big numbers in the states as well (PBS hadn't released ratings as of this morning), one would presume that such a theatrical screening would be purely for hardcore fans. As noted in the above headline, the tickets were $15 a pop, with a $2 service charge for each that rendered the screening into a $17-a-ticket event. Since I had avoided the initial airing on PBS and had miraculously avoided any spoilers, this was a "new to me" screening.
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