{"id":538665,"date":"2025-10-30T23:58:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/538665\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T23:58:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:58:19","slug":"5-7-million-viewers-in-three-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/538665\/","title":{"rendered":"5.7 Million Viewers in Three Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/it-welcome-to-derry\/\" id=\"auto-tag_it-welcome-to-derry\" data-tag=\"it-welcome-to-derry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It: Welcome to Derry<\/a>\u201d hit 5.7 million viewers through in its first three days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThat total, a combination of Nielsen measurement of viewers on HBO\u2019s linear channel and Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s own data regarding streams on HBO Max, puts the horror series in third place when compared to all other series premieres since HBO Max was launched. Only \u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d and \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d outrank it, according to WBD. (The company did not provide three-day totals to make comparisons with, though \u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d premiered with just under 10 million viewers and \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d premiered with 4.7 million viewers, both measured in just one day.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSet in the world established by the 1986 novel \u201cIt\u201d by Stephen King, and expanding the cinematic universe from Andy Muschietti\u2019s feature films \u201cIt\u201d (2017) and \u201cIt Chapter Two\u201d (2019), \u201cIt: Welcome to Derry\u201d is the origin story of child-hunting clown monster Pennywise. As in the films, Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd plays Pennywise. The cast also includes Jovan Adepo, Taylour Paige, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Blake Cameron James, Arian S. Cartaya, Amanda Christine, Matilda Lawler, Clara Stack, Madeleine Stowe and Rudy Mancuso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMuschietti developed \u201cIt: Welcome to Derry\u201d for television along with his sister Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs. Executive producers include the Muschiettis through their Double Dream production company, Fuchs, Skarsg\u00e5rd, Brad Caleb Kane, David Coatsworth, Shelley Meals, Roy Lee and Dan Lin. Fuchs wrote the first episode and serves as co-showrunner with Kane, while Muschietti directs multiple episodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt: Welcome to Derry\u201d hit 5.7 million viewers through in its first three days. That total, a combination&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,109988,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-538665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-it-welcome-to-derry","10":"tag-tv","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115465834383655482","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}