“Lanterns” ended its first season with record audiences.
The season finale, which aired Sunday on HBO and HBO Max, attracted 10.5 million viewers worldwide and 7.2 million viewers in the United States over three days of multiplatform viewing, according to Nielsen and Warner Bros. internal figures. Discovery.
The final audience marks an all-time high both globally and in the United States, with the global audience up 13% from its debut audience of 9.3 million, while the U.S. audience grew 9% from its debut audience of 6.6 million.
For comparison, the penultimate episode 7 garnered 7 million viewers in the United States during its first three days of availability on HBO and HBO Max.
In total, “Lanterns” attracts an average of 19.3 million viewers worldwide, cementing its place among the top five HBO series launches in the platform’s history.
Viewership for the series premiere doubled from the first week, as the series gained viewers throughout the series’ eight episodes, with the first episode now approaching 30 million viewers.
“Lanterns” was not renewed for Season 2, but the finale has Aaron Pierre’s John Stewart appearing in the “Superman” sequel “Man of Tomorrow,” which hits theaters in summer 2027.
Elsewhere on HBO, the HBO and Sky Original drama series “War” attracted more than 2 million viewers in the United States, with a three-day audience reaching 1.5 million. That’s comparable to the debut of “Love & Death,” which attracted 4.8 million U.S. viewers during its season.
New episodes of “War” air weekly on Thursdays on HBO and HBO Max.
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