Soaring to Series Highs, Disney Channel’s ‘Andi Mack’ Is the Week’s #1 TV Telecast in Target Youth Demographics

The week’s #1 TV telecast across major youth 2-11, 6-11 and 6-14 demographics, Disney Channel’s “Andi Mack” soared to series ratings highs and its 4th consecutive week of growth in Total Viewers (1.8 million) and 3rd straight week of solid gains in Kids 6-14 (1.1 million/2.9 rating) – dating back to 4/7/17 and 4/14/17, respectively, based on the most recent Live + 3 data. Friday’s (5/5/17) telecast also marked four consecutive weeks of ratings gains for series highs in Kids 2-11 (992,000/2.5 rating) and three straight weeks of growth in Kids 6-11 (826,000/3.4 rating) and Tweens 9-14 (773,000/3.1 rating).Competing against all television programming, Friday’s new episode also ranked as the #1 TV series telecast of 2017 to date among Girls 9-14 (577,000/4.9 rating). “Andi Mack” accounts for three of the year’s Top 4 series telecasts overall in that demographic.

“Andi Mack” has amassed over 11 million views to date across key digital and social platforms YouTube (4.1 million), Disney Channel VOD (3.5 million), the Disney Channel App (2.5 million) and Facebook/Instagram Stories (1.3 million), and reached 20.2 million Total Viewers to date on linear TV, including 7.2 million Kids 6-14 and 6.6 million Adults 18-49. The series has an engaged social audience across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram with 1.3 million Total Engagements and 2.3 million Total Impressions to date.

A compelling story of self-discovery created by Terri Minsky (“Lizzie McGuire”) that premiered April 7 on TV and March 10 on digital platforms, “Andi Mack” stars Peyton Elizabeth Lee as Andi Mack, Lilan Bowden as Bex Mack, Lauren Tom as Celia Mack, Joshua Rush as Cyrus Goodman, Sofia Wylie as Buffy Driscoll, Asher Angel as Jonah Beck, Stoney Westmoreland as Ham Mack and Emily Skinner as Amber. Trent Garrett recurs as Bowie. Actress and Hollywood Records recording artist Sabrina Carpenter performs the “Andi Mack” theme song, “Tomorrow Starts Today.”

In the most recent episode (5/5/17), a conflicted Andi finally tells Jonah Beck that she saw his girlfriend Amber with another boy, a disclosure that backfires when Amber humiliates Andi in front of Jonah. The next day, Bex allows Andi to stay home from school – and she’s there when her father, Bowie, arrives unannounced on their doorstep to meet his daughter for the first time.

The executive producers are Michelle Manning (“The Breakfast Club,” Disney Channel Original Movies “Adventures in Babysitting” and “Teen Beach 2”) and Terri Minsky. Phil Baker (Disney Channel’s “Good Luck Charlie”) is co-executive producer.

The series is from Horizon Productions and was filmed in Salt Lake City, Utah. It carries a TV-G parental guideline.