Lifetime's ‘Liz & Dick' Draws 3.5 Million Viewers

Biopic starring Lindsay Lohan ranks fourth among cabler's 2012 movies

By Andrea Morabito -- Broadcasting & Cable, 11/26/2012 4:07:37 PM

The Lifetime movie Liz & Dick starring Lindsay Lohan averaged 3.5 million total viewers in its premiere Sunday night, according to Nielsen.

The biopic, which followed Elizabeth Taylor's (Lohan) love affair with Richard Burton, also drew 1.3 million viewers in both the adults 18-49 and 25-54 demos, 1.1 million viewers among women 18-49 and 1 million women 25-54.

Liz & Dick ranks as the year's fourth most-watched TV movie premiere on cable, behind three other Lifetime movies -- Steel Magnolias, Drew Peterson: Untouchable and Abducted: The Carlina White Story -- in all those key demographics.

Lifetime will air an encore of the movie Monday at 8 p.m.