{"id":2274773,"date":"2026-02-09T21:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2274773"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:33:20","slug":"heated-rivalry-more-than-doubles-ratings-after-finale-reaching-10-6-million-us-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/heated-rivalry-more-than-doubles-ratings-after-finale-reaching-10-6-million-us-viewers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Heated Rivalry\u2019 More than Doubles Ratings After Finale, Reaching 10.6 Million US Viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The \u201cHeated Rivalry<\/a>\u201d phenomenon is paying off tenfold for HBO Max<\/a>, with the gay hockey series surpassing 10.6 million viewers in the U.S. to date, per the streamer.<\/p>\n

In a rare streaming viewership update for HBO Max, the streamer shared that \u201cHeated Rivalry<\/a>\u201d has maintained its spot as the most-watched scripted acquired series in HBO Max history, thanks to continued buzz generating residual viewers two months after its rollout.<\/p>\n

HBO Max touted that viewership for the series saw consistent week-over-week growth throughout its debut run, with the finale delivering more than four time the audience of the premiere week, but even more impressive is that viewership has more than doubled since the finale,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d phenomenon is paying off tenfold for HBO Max, with the gay hockey series surpassing 10.6 million viewers in the U.S. to date, per the streamer. In a rare streaming viewership update for HBO Max, the streamer shared that \u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d has maintained its spot as the most-watched scripted acquired series in HBO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2274774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2274773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018Heated-Rivalry-More-than-Doubles-Ratings-After-Finale-Reaching-106.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274775,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274773\/revisions\/2274775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}