The Penguin’s first season continues, and the audience’s interest increases for each episode. A new update from Warner Bros. Discovery shows that the fourth episode had an exceptional spike in audience viewership, with a total of 1.7M all over the U.S., Deadline exclusively reports.
According to Deadline, the second episode of the series drew in a total of 1.6M people, which showed a 17% increase over the series premiere episode. As of today, the premiere episode now has more than 13M viewers.
The Penguin debuted last month, according to Deadline, and it quickly became Max’s biggest four-day audience for a new series in every U.S. region. According to WBD, it even peaked worldwide. It also had Max‘s biggest 4-day audience for a new series in every region globally since The Last of Us premiere in Jan 2023.
Furthermore, according to Deadline, The Penguin only averaged 5.3 million viewers in the U.S. during its debut weekend.
“According to Deadline, the series comes from the DC Studios comics and is executive produced by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Planet of the Apes), Dylan Clark (Home Movies, Transfigure), Colin Farrell (The Gentlemen, The Lobster) and Lauren LeFranc (Impulse, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.). LeFranc is also a showrunner and writer for the show. Furthermore, Craig Zobel (Compliance, The Hunter) was the director and executive producer for the first three episodes. Bill Carraro (Blade Runner 2049, Tower Heist) is another executive producer for the show.
The Penguin‘s cast includes Farrell as Oz Cobb, Michael Zegen (The Marvelous Mrs. Masel, The Stand-In) as Alberto Falcone, Cristin Milioti (Palm Springs, How I Met Your Mother) as Sofia Falcone, Clancy Brown (Dexter: New Blood, Gen V) as Salvatore Maroni, Michael Kelly (Chronicle, Dawn Of The Dead), Rhenzy Feliz (Encanto, The Tender Bar), Shohreh Aghdashloo (Damsel, The Expanse), Deirdre O’Connell (Lez Bomb, The Boy Downstairs), James Madio (The Last Push, The Featherweight), Scott Cohen (The Tenth Kingdom, Love & Other Drugs), Theo Rossi (Dear Zoe, Lowriders) and Carmen Ejogo (Sparkle, The Purge: Anarchy).