Viewers appear to be flocking to . The series starring Colin Farrell as the notorious DC Comics villain has racked up 10.4 million cross-platform viewers for its series premiere, which debuted Sept.
19. That 11-day figure, according to HBO, is outpacing every other current HBO series over a similar time frame, other than its two biggest ones: and . Last week, HBO reported that s first episode stood at after four days of release, meaning about 5.
1 million more people watched in the subsequent week. Sunday’s second episode, meanwhile, gathered 1.6 million viewers across all platforms (including a couple of on-air replays), a 17 percent improvement on night one for the premiere.
The third-season finale of followed on Sunday with 260,000 first-night viewers. That falls short of the of 370,00 that the show set earlier this season, but as a whole season three has drawn a third more viewers than season two did (1.6 million per episode vs.
1.2 million). HBO has already picked up a .
was initially not slated to be an HBO series; instead, the offshoot of Matt Reeves’ 2022 feature film was intended to run exclusively on Max, HBO’s streaming sibling. As part of a shift in branding, however, — along with fellow DC-based drama and the forthcoming , and series — in June, meaning they will run both on Max and the HBO cable channels. It’s impossible to say whether would have pulled in the same number of viewers were it solely on Max.
The on-air premiere of the series on Sept. 19 d.