SUCCESSION Premiere Draws 2.3 Million Viewers, A New Series High For Its Fourth And Final Season

The season four debut of SUCCESSION garnered 2.3 million viewers across HBO Max and linear telecasts, marking a series high.

The total viewing for Sunday night was up 62% compared to last season’s premiere (1.4M) and 33% compared to the third season’s finale (1.7M), with season 3 episodes going on to average 7.2 million viewers per episode across platforms. Viewership figures got based on Nielsen and first-party data.

Compared to other Sunday night HBO Original premieres, Sunday’s total viewing number was 51% ahead of the season two premiere of “The White Lotus” and trailed only “House of the Dragon,” “The Last of Us,” and “Euphoria” among recent HBO series.

In addition, viewing SUCCESSION on HBO Max has been accelerating in anticipation of the new season, with last week up more than 4x versus the previous week.
 
Created by Jesse Armstrong, the ten-episode fourth and final season of the Emmy®-winning HBO Original drama series debuted March 26, with new episodes debuting Sundays at 9:00 p.m. ET.

The series explores themes of power and family dynamics through the eyes of patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and his four grown children, Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Siobhan (Sarah Snook), Roman (Kieran Culkin), and Connor (Alan Ruck).
 
Season four debuted to critical praise, with Vulture calling it “a shining example of the best qualities of TV,” Variety claiming it “tops itself again,” and IndieWire hailing it “the end all, be all of TV.” 

The first three seasons of SUCCESSION have garnered 48 Emmy® nominations and 13 wins, including Outstanding Drama Series, for the second and third seasons. Season three, which premiered in October 2021, earned the SAG Award for drama ensemble and swept at WGA, DGA, and PGA.