‘Task’ Finale Audience Up Nearly 30% From Premiere As Drama Lands Among HBO’s Fastest-Growing Freshman Seasons Ever
HBO‘s Task ended on a high note with 4 million cross-platform U.S. viewers within three days.
That’s up nearly 30% from the premiere‘s three-day performance. The first episode has now tallied 11.2M U.S. viewers, and the series is now one of HBO’s three fastest-growing freshman seasons ever, per Warner Bros. Discovery.
While WBD didn’t provide global viewership figures, the company did say Task was the top title globally on HBO Max last week.
The series, created by Mare of Easttown‘s Brad Ingelsby, follows an FBI agent (Mark Ruffalo) as he heads a task force to put an end to a string of violent robberies led by an unsuspecting family man (Tom Pelphrey) in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Read Deadline’s finale chat with Ruffalo and Ingelsby here.
HBO recently also launched Tim Robinson’s comedy The Chair Company. The premiere has now delivered 2.7M viewers and, after two episodes, the series is averaging about 2.1M. The second episode brought in 1.5M viewers after three days, up just slightly from the premiere’s 1.4M in that time frame.
WBD also notes that the season average is still about double that of other recent comedies like Somebody Somewhere and The Rehearsal.
The Chair Company stars Robinson as William Ronald Trosper, a man who finds himself investigating a far-reaching conspiracy after an embarrassing incident at work.
