Ype="node" title="1956 Movie Starring NRA-Hero Charlton Heston Wins Nielsen Ratings on Easter EveĬommenting on “The Ten Commandments” ratings, Catholic League President Bill Donohue said “what was most telling was how it creamed the religious fare shown on the Travel Channel and the Science Channel.” Browne (1.99 million watchers), and CBS’s Mike & Molly show (2.2 million).Īs the evening continued, “The Ten Commandments” still garnered the largest total audience, beating out CBS’s Criminal Minds (2.86 million viewers), CBS’s 48 Hours (5.49 million), and NBC’s Saturday Night Live (2.79 million). This year, with an audience of 5.87 million, the movie easily beat NBC’s Dateline Saturday Mystery (4.49 million viewers), FOX’s UFC: Werdum vs. In 2013, “The Ten Commandments” on ABC drew 5.9 million viewers, and in 2012 it garnered 6.9 million viewers. Bush, and serving as president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003. The 1956 movie, filmed in Technicolor and shown every year since 1973 as part of ABC’s Movie of the Week programming, tells the Biblical story of Moses and his deliverance of the Jewish people from Egyptian slavery – the Exodus.Ĭharlton Heston (1923-2008), who plays the lead character, was a liberal early in his career but became more conservative in the 1980s, campaigning for Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. “The Ten Commandments” was broadcast by ABC from 8-11PM ET on the night before Easter and during the Jewish observance of Passover (Apr. () – “The Ten Commandments,” a movie made 58 years ago starring the conservative Charlton Heston as “Moses,” and which is broadcast by ABC every year at Easter, won the Nielsen ratings for adult viewers ages 18-49 and for total viewers on Saturday, April 19, pulling in 5.87 million viewers and beating NBC, FOX and CBS. Actor Charlton Heston (1923-2008) as "Moses" in the 1956 film, "The Ten Commandments." (AP)
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