Tiger TV is coming to prime time.
A one-hour NBC special, “The Secret Life of Tiger Woods” — featuring an interview with Girlfriend No. 2, Las Vegas waitress Jamie Jungers, and a report on how the scandal got started — aired Friday and was a blockbuster.
Now other networks, eager to cash in, are apparently preparing to follow suit.
The “Dateline” episode — the first prime-time special by a major network — was seen by 9.3 million people, according to Nielsen, making it the highest-rated TV show of the night and the best ratings the TV newsmagazine has had in nearly two years.
Until now, the Tiger story has been fodder mostly for TV newscasts and tabloid shows such as “Extra.”
Officials from rival networks CBS and ABC declined yesterday to say whether they would air prime-time Tiger reports, too — though for competitive reasons they rarely publicize what they are planning.
But sources at CBS say “60 Minutes” is hotly pursuing a Tiger story — with or without the personal confession that is TV’s holy grail right now.