{"id":228847,"date":"2025-12-12T07:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/228847\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:48:09","slug":"welcome-to-derry-and-i-love-la-score-series-high-viewership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/228847\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Derry and I Love LA Score Series High Viewership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HBO has seen ratings success with its current Sunday night lineup, with both \u201cIt: Welcome to Derry\u201d and \u201cI Love LA\u201d scoring series high viewership this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt: Welcome to Derry\u201d drew in its biggest audience thus far with 5.8 million cross-platform viewers tuning in for Episode 7 in the U.S., according to live-plus-three-day viewership information from Warner Bros. Discovery, while \u201cI Love LA\u201d saw its highest viewership to date as Episode 5 scored 1 million viewers in its first three days across HBO and HBO Max.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt: Welcome to Derry,\u201d which is gearing up to debut its finale this Sunday, is now averaging 10.7 million viewers in the U.S. and 18.3 million viewers globally. After the show, which sees Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd return as Pennywise, scored 5.7 million viewers for its premiere episode, it\u00a0ranks among the top three original series debuts on HBO Max since its launch, behind \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d and \u201cHouse of the Dragon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/join-pro\/?utm_source=sitereadmore&amp;utm_medium=ai&amp;utm_campaign=2025r&amp;utm_id=12032025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765525689_68_WrapPRO-970x250-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7903226\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Episode 7 also saw an increased amount of chatter on social media, soaring nearly 300% since the premiere. Social conversation surrounding the show has increased nearly 60% every week since a month before the premiere of \u201cIt: Welcome to Derry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI Love LA,\u201d which has two episodes left in its first season, has been averaging 1.8 million viewers in the U.S., and remains one of the fastest growing original comedies in platform history.<\/p>\n<p>The series, which is created by and stars Rachel Sennott, was already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/the-chair-company-i-love-la-season-2-renewed-hbo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">renewed<\/a> for a second season in November alongside\u00a0Tim Robinson\u2019s \u201cThe Chair Company\u201d\u00a0after both first-year comedies scored solid viewership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled by the incredible response to \u2018The Chair Company\u2019 and \u2018I Love LA\u2019 debuts,\u201d EVP of HBO programming and head of HBO and HBO Max comedy<br \/>series Amy Gravitt said in a statement. \u201cBoth shows confidently carry on the HBO<br \/>comedy tradition, in their own singular way.\u00a0We couldn\u2019t be happier<br \/>to continue collaborating with Tim, Zach, Rachel and their exceptional teams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"the-wrap-read-more__image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/the-chair-company-i-love-la-season-2-renewed-hbo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chair-Company-I-Love-LA.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Chair-Company-I-Love-LA\"   data-portal-copyright=\"TheWrap\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HBO has seen ratings success with its current Sunday night lineup, with both \u201cIt: Welcome to Derry\u201d and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,61728,104681,19,17,30627,128,13522,34703],"class_list":{"0":"post-228847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-freemium","11":"tag-i-love-la","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-it-welcome-to-derry","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-tv-ratings","17":"tag-wrappro"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}