Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's documentary The Vietnam War averaged 6.7 million viewers across its 10 nights in Live + 7 Day stats, PBS announced Thursday morning. The epic doc enjoyed a reach of just under 34 million.
These ratings results mean The Vietnam War is the second-highest-rated Burns/Novick film of the past two decades, following The War in 2007, PBS boasted.
Burns' best-known documentary for PBS, The Civil War, aired nearly three decades ago. Looking back across two decades also excludes some other well-known Burns/Novick docs for public broadcasting, from the conversation.
The premiere episode, which was unveiled September 17, was PBS' best-performing telecast since the series finale of Downton Abbey on Masterpiece, and is the highest-streamed series opener in PBS history.
