"Natalee Holloway" Movie Sets Ratings Record For Lifetime Movie Network

Variety:

Lifetime Movie Network bagged record ratings Sunday for its original telepic "Natalee Holloway."

An average aud of 3.2 million tuned in to see the movie -- the best showing in the network's 11-year history, according to preliminary Nielsen nationals. It also drew an impressive 1.04 million women 18-49, making it the top-rated movie on basic cable in this category in the last 12 months.

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[arubaBOYCOTT]

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GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: A member of the Dutch parliament slams
officials on the island of Aruba, allegations of a cover-up and corruption
related to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.

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[MikeyMike]

"....among adults 18-49...."

I suppose I won't watch television anymore, because television and its rating system no longer care about me......I feel more free already.

[Budokan]

Says a lot about our culture. And none of it positive.

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[harriettubman]

People must've watched this movie due it continually being in the news. I saw a clip with Tracy Pollan and she was not a great actor for that role. Her crying was not even believable. I was laughing instead of feeling her emotions.

[westphilly726]

So true.She wasn't believable as Beth Holloway.

[harriettubman]

I have the LT channel but don't know where this new LT movie network is so I missed the movie. If it's something they want to charge for they can forget it. Why not show it on the TV station?

Missing women of color wish they had it so good with the likes of Nancy Grace and her terminal show on the Anthony family every single night now for over a year!

[MotownMusicLvr]

I agree 100% about missing women and children of color rarely being discussed on the news shows and shows like Nancy Grave, Jane Velez Mitchell, etc. Maybe we aren't being kidnapped or killed so that is a good thing for us........­.....but we all know that just as many women and children of color are missing or killed just like white women and white kids. "We" just don't draw the ratings since most people think it is normal for "us" to be killed or do the killings. And don't get mad with me for speaking truth to power.

[Sparty1]

I think it's terrible what happened to this young lady. I talked with my teenage daughter about this after it happened. I tell her that I know she's young and thinks that nothing will happen to her, but drinking and doing drugs leads to bad judgment. I don't care if they try to say that Ms. Holloway wasn't drinking and that she was a good church girl, she was and it probably made her more trusting of these little hoodlums. I hope that one day the Holloways will get justice. At the very least, find their daughter's remains so that she can come home.

[Darthwave]

Missing White Women melodramas always makes for good ratings. To think about all the men and women who barely gets any media attention when they go missing. Imagine how their families feel when their love ones are totally forgotten about? Its a shame what happened to Ms. Holloway but it happens everyday and her life shouldn't be worth no more than anyone else.

[LittlePurpleUSA]

x2

[SpoxLogic]

x a frikkin' hundred.

[PalmG]

x3. What kind of people are interested in this story still? Wow.

[westphilly726]

Exactly!! As a woman of color I know I would never get the coverage like Natalie Holloway,Laci Peterson or Nicole Simpson.Th­e tragedy is somehow worse when its a murdered or missing white woman.And people wonder why we have attitudes.

[rhonu]

I didn't watch so I can't comment on the movie; but I always wondered where the chaperones were and the other girls that Natalee was hanging out with. I may have missed that in all the conversations surrounding this story but I just wonder how she got separated from them.

[harriettubman]

Yeah, 7-8 chaperones for 125 students!!! Natalie was with some girls and they just let her go. I would have had a knock down, drag out with somebody because tourists who saw Natalie in the bathroom said her friends were holding her up. This was before she even met those boys.

[progressivelady]

I hope graduating classes stoped traveling to Aruba.

[harriettubman]

Not just Aruba, any place that can't afford to take more chaperones. If a school can't afford to take a ratio of 1:5 chaperones per student, don't go. There's no way senior high school students should've been trowling bars at all, let alone without a chaperone!

Geraldo's investigation into this story showed where the bar tender in the club Natalie and her friends were, had participated in the mixing of the roofies in their drinks at the bar. So much for telling kids not to accept open drinks. Aruba has nothing to do for teens so why even go there? If they can't be content enjoying shopping and beaches for a few days they should've chosen somewhere else. Where were the adults in any of this?

[westphilly726]

You can't blame a whole island for someone acting irresponsi­ble.Yes I blame some of Natalie's friends but when are we going to place blame where it belongs.Na­talie didn't deserve to be murdered but she should not have trusted these complete strangers especially in a foreign country.Al­so how many millions of tourist have gone to Aruba and come home safely.Per­sonal responsibility folks.

[Mariluz De L'isle]

uhm sorry but I don't agree, Aruba is the safest place you can ever imagine, even more safe then the US where thousands of people are killed, or assaulted and or kidnapped. It was this just one time ocassion and Aruba had nothing to do with it. I live here, and I just know how Aruba is. so graduates should come cuz it's the best place

[Janet Carter]

I didn't care for it. They attempted to cover 4 years worth of material in 75 minutes. The other 45 minutes were commercials. Poorly done.

[GhostNyc]

I hope the Holloway family eventually get justice for Natalie and eventually find some level of closure/peace.

I also sincerly wish the MSM would pay this much attention to all missing women/people- not just the "pretty" ones with blond hair and blue eyes. Unfortunate but accurate.

[rektruax]

My 2nd wife used to joke...

Lifetime, the network for victims.

[littlepuffycloud]

...or people in the mood for an over the top melodrama.
However, I watched this movie and it was pretty good. A lot of details about Aruba's attempt to cover up the fact a rich Dutch lawyer's son was involved. Natalee's mother fought so long and hard for the truth about what happened to her daughter and she remains a heroine to many other moms. She did find some peace by the end of the movie and she speaks to HS kids going to Mexico or another country for spring break or graduation. We all would be lucky to have a mother as tenacious as Beth Holloway.

[harriettubman]

Unfortunately many of the movies they show actually happened so if they're victims its because someone made them one.