The ‘Welcome to Derry’ Premiere Was HBO’s Third-Biggest Hit

HBO’s genre dramas are often a big deal, and so far, Welcome to Derry No exception

per The Hollywood ReporterFirst episode it is prequel Collected 5.7 million cross-platform visitors in three days. It’s the third-biggest series debut in HBO history, coming in behind pilots for 2022 House of the Dragon And our end In 2023. In their early days alone, the dragon When there were about 10 million viewers the end There were 4.7 million viewers and grossed much more over the three-day period. (The end of the last First season alone reached almost the same number of the dragon Premier.)

most of Welcome to Derry Viewers tuned in to the premiere after it aired on Sunday night. Despite the show’s harsh reviews, the episode itself has garnered attention online bloody endAnd it helped that it premiered shortly before Halloween. The twist surprised a lot of people — including HBO, as it turns out — and will likely have seats in the butts for the rest of the season.

Since Halloween fell on a Friday this year, the second Derry The episode premiered earlier than its normal Sunday timeslot on HBO Max. HBO also revealed the cast of the show, which was produced by production studio Filmograph. in a separate THR In interviews, executive producer/director Andy Muschietti called the title sequence “panic-filled” because it involves Pennywise seducing children or observing chaotic events throughout the town’s history. The series “reflects the desire to show major cataclysmic events” noted in Stephen King’s novels, Muschietti continues, and leans more toward Derry as “a place that is seemingly healthy, but there’s something sinister under the surface.”

You can read more about the creation of the sequence hereAnd it will play before its new episode Welcome to Derry every sunday

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