{"id":2325359,"date":"2026-03-12T20:21:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2325359"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:21:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:21:51","slug":"rooster-recruits-2-4-million-viewers-hbos-most-watched-us-comedy-debut-in-over-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rooster-recruits-2-4-million-viewers-hbos-most-watched-us-comedy-debut-in-over-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rooster\u2019 Recruits 2.4 Million Viewers, HBO\u2019s Most-Watched US Comedy Debut in Over 10 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0492639\/\">Bill Lawrence<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32420734\/\">Rooster<\/a>\u201d debuted as HBO\u2019s most-watched comedy premiere in the U.S. in over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32420734\/\">Rooster<\/a>,\u201d which premiered March 8 on HBO, reached 2.4 million U.S. cross-platform viewers in its first three days of availability, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0889943\/\">Nielsen<\/a> live-plus-three-day viewing figures and internal data from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0863266\/\">Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a>. Since its premiere, the audience for \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32420734\/\">Rooster<\/a>\u201d has grown four times since premiere night.<\/p>\n<p>The debut of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32420734\/\">Rooster<\/a>\u201d is about on par with premiere viewership of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt34385331\/\">Dtf St. Louis<\/a>,\u201d which debuted to 2.5 million viewers in the U.S. across three days of viewing across HBO and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0754095\/\">HBO Max.<\/a> In its second week, however, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt34385331\/\">Dtf St. Louis<\/a>\u201d grew 12% from its first week with 2.8 million viewers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Lawrence\u2019s \u201cRooster\u201d debuted as HBO\u2019s most-watched comedy premiere in the U.S. in over 10 years. \u201cRooster,\u201d which premiered March 8 on HBO, reached 2.4 million U.S. cross-platform viewers in its first three days of availability, according to Nielsen live-plus-three-day viewing figures and internal data from Warner Bros. Discovery. 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