The following contains the tentative list of the most watched television interviews on American and British television, with the corresponding average viewership on the network it aired and the year of such broadcast. Almost all of the most watched TV interviews are from the United States, except one from BBC One.
Interviews
Rank | Interviewee | Interviewer | Avg. viewers (millions) |
Series | Air date | Network | Ref(s) |
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1 | Michael Jackson | Oprah Winfrey | 62.30 | "Michael Jackson Talks ... to Oprah" | February 10, 1993 | ABC | [1] |
2 | The Duke and Duchess of Sussex | Oprah Winfrey | 49.10 | "Oprah with Meghan and Harry" | March 8, 2021 | CBS | |
3 | Monica Lewinsky | Barbara Walters | 48.54 | 20/20 | March 3, 1999 | ABC | |
4 | Richard Nixon | David Frost | 45.00 | Nixon Talks | May 4, 1977 | CBS | |
5 | Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley | Diane Sawyer | 37.50 | Prime Time Live | June 14, 1995 | ABC | |
6 | Bill and Hillary Clinton | Steve Kroft | 34.00 | 60 Minutes | January 26, 1992 | CBS | |
7 | Diana, Princess of Wales | Martin Bashir | 22.78 | Panorama: "An Interview with HRH The Princess of Wales" | November 20, 1995 | BBC1 | |
8 | Stormy Daniels | Anderson Cooper | 22.11 | 60 Minutes | March 25, 2018 | CBS | |
9 | Barack Obama | Matt Lauer | 21.90 | Today | February 1, 2009 | NBC | |
10 | Whitney Houston | Diane Sawyer | 21.27 | Primetime | December 4, 2002 | ABC |