The Last of US HBO TV Series Episode 3 Grows to 6.4 Million Viewers on Premiere Night - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 February 2023 / 2,296 Views
The Last of Us HBO TV series has been a huge hit for HBO and Naughty Dog with each episode having seen a growth in the number of viewers on premiere night.
The first episode had 4.7 million viewers across HBO and HBO Max, while the second episode saw an increase of 22 percent to 5.7 million viewers.
The third episode in its premiere night saw 6.4 million viewers, announced HBO. This is up 12 percent from the second episode and up 37 percent from the first episode.
The first two episodes are averaging 21.3 million viewers, which is currently the second most popular series on HBO. Only House of Dragon has had more viewers per episode with an average of 29 million.
Following the early success the HBO TV series has been renewed for a second season.
New episodes of The Last of Us TV series debut on Sundays at 9:00 pm ET/PT on HBO and HBO Max. The finale will premiere on March 12.
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This begs the question, in 2023, how many people still do this appointment viewing? I think a more interesting statistic will be how many people watched every episode over the next few months.
I don't have an HBO subscription right now, so I'm not watching. But once all the episodes are out I will definitely subscribe and watch them all over a couple of weeks. And I believe there are a whole lot of people that behave in this same way. I can't even remember the last time that I tried to watch a non-sports television program at it's initial air time. It was probably the finale of Game of Thrones several years ago.
The further details on the report holds well for the number of people watching the episode after premiere, so by season end we may have good average for all of them.
Gettin bigger and bigger! Just saw House of the Dragon’s second episode viewership only increased by 2% to 10.2mil, so TLoU has a chance of reaching it by its final episode. Everyone seems to be saying ep 3 is the best yet, so I expect ep 4 premiere viewership to have another decent bump.
Healthy increases, will it hold until season end?
They certainly not going to keep increasing every week for the whole season. And it may fall off a little bit. It's gotten a lot of hype, so some people will tune in because they've heard about it from other people. And some portion of those people will not care for the show and will stop watching. Regardless of any of that though, it looks like this thing is a big hit for HBO.
If it holds on a similar level to what it have now it would already be a major success.
Great episode!
The Last of Us' third episode is the best so far. Very touching and well written .
