Oprah Winfrey's much publicized and talked about two-part interview with disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong was the all time ratings hit that OWN expected it to be. Or maybe it wasn't... The first part of the interview, on Thursday, pulled in 3.2 million viewers, with the second part on Friday night pulling in 1.1 viewers, for a total of 4.3 viewers for the entire interview. However, media sources are saying that the champ still is Winfrey's interview with Whitney Houston's family, a month after her death in March, in which the single show (not a two-parter like Armstrong's) pulled in 3.5 million viewers. But since the Armstrong interview...
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