Oprah Winfrey's Lindsay Lohan Interview Disappoints
by EG
Lindsay Lohan might be the "Sharknado" of celebrities. She's showing up everywhere since she left rehab, but that doesn't necessarily mean that many people are watching her. The ratings for her recent interview on "Oprah's Next Chapter" is the latest disappointing sign for the resurgence of the actress's career.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Lohan's episode of "Oprah's Next Chapter," which aired last Sunday on Winfrey's OWN network, drew 892,000 viewers, which is slightly better than the average viewership for the series but far lower than the most-watched episodes.
Oprah's interviews with Rihanna, Lance Armstrong and Whitney Houston's family all drew audiences several times the size of Lohan's; the Houston interview pulled in 3.5 million viewers.
Lohan's most recent film project, the erotic thriller "The Canyons," has had only a limited theatrical release, but in its first three weeks on the big screen, it has grossed only about $43,000 at the box office. The film's distributor hoped to make the film a success by sending it straight to video-on-demand, but as of Aug. 20, "The Canyons" was the 92nd most rented movie on iTunes, just behind "Finding Nemo" and just ahead of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2."
The numbers for Lohan's recent guest-hosting gig on "Chelsea Lately" were better. The Aug. 5 episode of Chelsea Handler's talk show drew 890,000 viewers, a considerable improvement over the average viewership of the series.
That's the kind of bounce that the producers of HBO's "Eastbound and Down" are hoping for; that series recently announced that Lohan will make a guest appearance on the show later this year. Lohan will also have her own reality series on the OWN network, and Winfrey is no doubt counting on viewers being more interested in Lohan by the time the show airs than they seem to be lately.