Captain Phil Harris died on last night’s episode of “Deadliest Catch” and 8.5 million people tuned in to see how Discovery and the show’s producers handled this delicate matter.
That’s not just a record audience for the series, but it also made the episode the third-most-watched telecast in Discovery history — behind “Raising the Mammoth” and “Walking With Dinosaurs,” which both aired in 2000.
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