The channel's highest-rated movie had been on Sunday night.
It was the highest-rated made-for-television movie on any network since 1991.
The two-hour pilot was the highest-rated movie for the 1989-1990 season with a 21.7 rating and was viewed by 34.6 million people.
The two-hour pilot was the highest-rated movie for the 1989-1990 season with a 22 rating and was viewed by 33% of the audience.
The film was the highest-rated made-for-television movie on any network since 1991 with approximately 36 million viewers.
And "Kaleidoscope" did even better, becoming one of the highest-rated movies of the current season.
It was one of the highest-rated movies of the year.
The movie also ranked as the fourth highest-rated movie of the week on ad-supported cable.
In its first showing, on Friday night at 7, it became the channel's highest-rated original movie, watched by 5.2 million.
After creating the highest-rated movie ever made for Showtime, Warren Weideman is about to make four sequels, but the project was a tough sale.