WESTWORLD 3 Premiere Losses More Than 50% of Season 2 Audience
The eight-episode third season of HBO’s Emmy-winning series Westworld debuted on Sunday. And today we hear that the ratings … weren’t great.
Variety reports the season 3 premiere snagged 901,000 total viewers. That’s a 57% dip from last season’s premiere (2.1 million) and the show’s lowest viewership to date. Overall, the episode scored 1.7 million viewers across HBO’s platforms. And that number is still HBO’s best this season, beating out The Outsider by 24% and Watchmen by 13%.
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Evan Rachel Wood returns as Dolores along with Thandie Newton as Maeve, Ed Harris as the Man in Black, Jeffrey Wright as Bernard, Tessa Thompson as Charlotte, Luke Hemsworth as Stubbs, Simon Quarterman as Lee Sizemore and Rodrigo Santoro as Hector Escaton.
New cast members this season include Aaron Paul, Vincent Cassel, Lena Waithe, Scott Mescudi, Marshawn Lynch, John Gallagher Jr., and Michael and Tommy Flanagan.
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Based on Michael Crichton’s film, Westworld is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the birth of a new form of life on Earth. This season’s theme is “New World.”
The show was created for television by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy who executive produce with J.J. Abrams, Athena Wickham, Richard J. Lewis, Ben Stephenson, and Denise Thé. Kilter Films and Bad Robot Productions produce with Warner Bros Television.
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