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Jodie Foster and Kail Reis in ‘True Detective: Night Country’
HBO
The end of True Detective: Night Country It drew the largest first-night audience of the season and finished well above where the season began. On Sunday’s broadcast, Tracker fits perfectly into CBS’ programming in the first episode after its post-Super Bowl premiere.
Sunday’s final episode of night country It drew 3.2 million multiplatform viewers (for the first broadcast on HBO, two repeats later in the night, and streaming on Max), the largest overnight viewing of the six-episode season. Last week’s installment had 5 million viewers over three days after launching on Max two days before Super Bowl weekend.
night country It also ends up as the most viewed of True detectives four seasons so far — it has averaged 12.7 million viewers per episode since the season premiere on Jan. 14, surpassing the first season’s average of 11.9 million in 2014. HBO measures viewing over 90 days since the premiere of a season. (It’s also worth noting that previous seasons of real detective were not as available to stream, as they were all prior to the release of Max).
Sunday’s 3.2 million viewers capped a season in which viewership grew over six episodes; The finale attracted about 57 percent more viewers than the season premiere’s 2 million. It was also up 55 percent from the season three finale in February 2019.
Night country’The season’s average of 12.7 million viewers is ahead of the second season of The white lotus (10.1 million viewers just before its finale) and the last season of Succession (8.7 million). The highest score for any HBO series since game of Thrones finished belongs to The last of uswhose first season in 2023 attracted more than 30 million viewers per episode across all platforms in its first 90 days.
Elsewhere on Sunday, Tracker drew 6.64 million viewers for CBS, according to Nielsen’s fast national ratings, based on its Equalizer introduction (6.32 million). The season premiere of american idol on ABC (4.45 million viewers) was down about 16 percent from last year’s debut, while the People’s Choice Awards on NBC reached 2.91 million (not including a simulcast on E!), versus to 3.54 million on the network for the last ceremony. in December 2022. Complete Sunday broadcast ratings will be available later in the week.