Yahoo Lifestyle ‘The Penguin’ Inches To Another Viewership Milestone Ahead Of Finale
The Penguin audience is still growing ahead of the finale.
Episode 7 hit a series high of 1.9M cross-platform U.S. viewers across HBO and Max on Sunday night, according to Warner Bros. Discovery, showcasing a 6% same-day audience increase in the last two weeks.
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The company says that the week leading up to last night’s episode was The Penguin‘s strongest week domestically on Max, likely in anticipation of the upcoming finale on November 10.
Meanwhile, the first episode has now amassed over 16M viewers, WBD adds. That’s 2M more than last time the company reported the viewership for the premiere in October.
So far, The Penguin has not appeared on Nielsen’s streaming charts. In the latest report, which spanned September 30 to October 6, Nielsen pointed out that since the series airs on HBO, it is considered acquired programming, which means it has much steeper competition to make it on the list, including behemoths like Bob’s Burgers, Family Guy and Grey’s Anatomy.
However, Nielsen did say that The Penguin managed 364M viewing minutes that week, which means it would’ve earned a spot at No. 9 on the originals list, if it was categorized that way.
The Penguin, which hails from DC Studios, is executive produced by Matt Reeves, Dylan Clark, Colin Farrell, and Lauren LeFranc, who serves as writer and showrunner. Craig Zobel directed the first three episodes in addition to executive producing. Bill Carraro also executive produces.
Besides Farrell, the series stars Cristin Milioti, Rhenzy Feliz, Theo Rossi, Michael Kelly, Clancy Brown and Shohreh Aghdashloo.
The finale will debut next Sunday, November 10 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and will be available to stream on Max.
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