Winning Time Season 2 Premiere Sees 30% Audience Dip Vs. Season 1 – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty returned to HBO on Sunday with 629,000 whole viewers tuning in for the Season 2 premiere throughout Max and linear telecasts.

That’s a little bit of a fall from grace, contemplating the 901,000 individuals who tuned in for the Season 1 debut in March 2022. By May of that yr, Season 1 managed to amass 1.6M same-day viewers for the finale. (Although, it could be value nothing that Season 1 additionally most certainly benefitted from the excitement of March Madness, when basketball is already prime of thoughts for audiences.)

HBO usually banks on the expansion potential from delayed viewing, because the community beforehand reported that new episodes of a sequence are likely to solely draw 10%-20% of their whole viewership on Sunday nights.

Season 1 episodes of Winning Time went on to common about 1.2M viewers per episode on premiere nights, which grew to 6M viewers per episode over time.

Other current examples embrace The White Lotus, which premiered in 2021 to 944,000 whole viewers. The season averaged about 1.1M viewers on premiere evening, and episodes grew to about 9.3M common viewers when all was mentioned and executed.

Over time, will probably be come extra clear how Winning Time Season 2 will stack up.

The present’s sophomore run focuses on the interval simply after the 1980 NBA Finals by 1984, culminating within the first skilled rematch of the period’s biggest stars: Magic (Quincy Isaiah) and the Boston Celtics’ Larry Bird (Sean Patrick Small).

Adrien Brody, John C. Reilly, Michael Chiklis), and Jason Segel additionally star in Winning Time, alongside Jason Clarke, Gaby Hoffmann, Hadley Robinson, DeVaughn Nixon, Solomon Hughes, Tamera Tomakili, Brett Cullen, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Spencer Garrett, Molly Gordon, Joey Brooks, Delante Desouza, Jimel Atkins, Austin Aaron, McCabe Slye, Thomas Mann, Gillian Jacobs and Rob Morgan.

The government producers are author/co-creators Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht, Adam McKay, Kevin Messick, Scott Stephens, Rodney Barnes, director Salli Richardson-Whitfield and Jason Shuman.