‘Animal Control’ Premiere Wrangles Record Streaming Audience For Fox In Delayed Viewing
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The premiere of Animal Control has laughed up a streaming record for Fox. After three days of delayed viewing, the episode delivered 4.5M multi-platform viewers, which is a 114% increase from its live + same-day audience (2.1M).
About 1.3M of those viewers came from Hulu and Fox Now, making the episode Fox’s most-streamed scripted debut ever. The premiere of Animal Control, which stars Joel McHale, surpassed both 9-1-1: Lone Star and The Last Man on Earth for the streaming title.
In delayed viewing, the episode has also become Fox’s most-watched comedy telecast since the 2021 series finale of Last Man Standing (excluding NFL lead-ins).
Animal Control follows a group of local Animal Control workers whose lives are complicated by the fact that animals are simple, but humans are not.
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