HBO’s Made-for-TV Palin Biopic Draws Biggest Audience in 8 Years

“Game Change,” the HBO film about former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s vice-presidential candidacy in 2008, was the cable channel’s most-watched original-film premiere in almost eight years.

The debut at 9 p.m. on March 10 drew an average of 2.1 million viewers, HBO, owned by Time Warner Inc., said Tuesday. Across four weekend showings, the program attracted a total of 3.6 million viewers.

The audience was the biggest for an original HBO film since “Something the Lord Made” on May 30, 2004, the network said.