The nineties ushered in the grunge era, “Pulp Fiction” and “Friends” — but, as it turns out, viewers are more interested in the decade that introduced Pac-Man and “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.”
Cable news viewers among the key demo of adults age 25-54 prefer the ’80s over the ’90s, at least according to the ratings of CNN’s latest original series ‘The Nineties.”
The debut of “The Nineties” averaged 506,000 demo viewers on Sunday night, finishing as the most-watched show among cable news. During the 9-11 p.m. ET timeslot, CNN’s look at television in the ’90s beat Fox News by 82 percent and MSNBC by 315 percent.