{"id":484707,"date":"2026-05-14T18:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/484707\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T18:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:15:12","slug":"rooster-season-1-ratings-hbos-biggest-comedy-since-hung-sex-and-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/484707\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooster Season 1 Ratings: HBO&#8217;s Biggest Comedy Since Hung, Sex and the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWith 6.5 million average viewers, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/rooster\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rooster\" data-tag=\"rooster\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rooster<\/a>\u201d achieved <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/hbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo\" data-tag=\"hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a>\u2018s most-watched debut season for a comedy series in more than 15 years, according to Warner Bros. Discovery. That stat puts the show in good company: \u201cHung\u201d (2009) and \u201cSex and the City\u201d (1998) are the only HBO comedies that have ever achieved a higher 90-day viewership average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThat feat is doubly impressive when considering that \u201cRooster\u201d premiered on March 8 and concluded on May 10, meaning it still has two weeks to continue building its 90-day average. Its current 6.5 million average already surpasses any comedy HBO has produced in the last decade and a half, including banner series like  \u201cEnlightened,\u201d \u201cGirls,\u201d \u201cVeep,\u201d \u201cSilicon Valley\u201d and \u201cInsecure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cRooster\u201d is set on a college campus as stars Carell as an author who has a complicated relationship with his daughter (Charly Clive). Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses serve as showrunners. Executive producers include Lawrence, Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer for Doozer as well as Tarses, Jonathan Krisel, Barbie Adler, Annie Mebane, David Stassen, Anthony King and Carell. Warner Bros. Television, where both Doozer and Tarses are under overall deals, is the studio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMore to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With 6.5 million average viewers, \u201cRooster\u201d achieved HBO\u2018s most-watched debut season for a comedy series in more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,9540,19,17,168059,128],"class_list":["post-484707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rooster","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116574298728838610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484707","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=484707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}