‘Winning Time’: Lakers Drama Debut Falls Short Of 1M Viewers Across HBO Platforms
deadline.comHBO ushered viewers back to the starting days of the Los Angeles Lakers with new series Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty making its premiere on Sunday.
The series from co-creators Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht debuted to just shy of 1 million viewers.Per HBO, the series opened to approximately 900,000 viewers across linear viewing and HBO Max streaming.
Winning Time filled the 9 p.m. Sunday slot previously belonging to Euphoria. To compare the dramas, Euphoria made its series premiere in June 2019 to 577,00 linear viewers and boosted up to 1 million viewers with viewing on HBO GO/NOW, before HBO Max launched.
The Euphoria season 2 premiere broke records for HBO and HBO Max with 2.4 million total viewers.Winning Time is a ten-episode series about the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of sports’ most revered and dominant dynasties — a team that defined an era, both on and off the court.
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