With 6.5 million average viewers, “Rooster” achieved HBO‘s most-watched debut season for a comedy series in more than 15 years, according to Warner Bros. Discovery. That stat puts the show in good company: “Hung” (2009) and “Sex and the City” (1998) are the only HBO comedies that have ever achieved a higher 90-day viewership average.
That feat is doubly impressive when considering that “Rooster” premiered on March 8 and concluded on May 10, meaning it still has two weeks to continue building its 90-day average. Its current 6.5 million average already surpasses any comedy HBO has produced in the last decade and a half, including banner series like “Enlightened,” “Girls,” “Veep,” “Silicon Valley” and “Insecure.”
“Rooster” is set on a college campus as stars Carell as an author who has a complicated relationship with his daughter (Charly Clive). Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses serve as showrunners. Executive producers include Lawrence, Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer for Doozer as well as Tarses, Jonathan Krisel, Barbie Adler, Annie Mebane, David Stassen, Anthony King and Carell. Warner Bros. Television, where both Doozer and Tarses are under overall deals, is the studio.
From Variety US