The White Lotus Season 3 premiere welcomed 2.4M cross-platform U.S. viewers on Sunday night, according to HBO.
That’s a 57% increase over Season 2’s premiere night, which saw 1.5M tune in, and it’s an impressive 155% higher than the 944,000 who watched the Season 1 premiere when it debuted.
In the 36 hours post-premiere the Season 3 debut has already grown its audience 90% to 4.6M viewers HBO says.
It’s expected that the audience for the premiere episode will continue tally an even larger audience over the next few weeks. Per HBO, the previous seasons saw the premieres grow seven to eight times beyond the night they aired on the network. Season 1’s premiere went on to average 9.3M viewers, while Season 2’s amassed 15.5M.
HBO also says that, in the week leading up to the Season 3 premiere, there was an 84% increase in volume of viewers catching up on the previous seasons compared to the same time in advance of the Season 2 premiere.
The eight-episode third seasons is set in an an exclusive Thai resort and follows the exploits of various guests and employees over the span of a week.
The third season stars Leslie Bibb, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, Carrie Coon, Parker Posey, Dom Hetrakul, Tayme Thapthimthong, Christian Friedel, Morgana O’Reilly, Lek Patravadi, Shalini Peiris, Walton Goggins, Aimee Lou Wood, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sarah Catherine Hook, Sam Nivola, Nicholas Duvernay, Arnas Fedaravičius, Scott Glenn and Blackpink’s Lisa Manobal. Natasha Rothwell, who starred in Season 1, also returns in Season 3.
