‘Doctor Odyssey’ Off To Strong Start For ABC As Premiere Reels In Nearly 14M Viewers
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Doctor Odyssey‘s maiden voyage seems to be going swimmingly. Ryan Murphy‘s latest procedural set sail on ABC last week and, so far, the premiere episode has tallied 13.6M cross-platform viewers in its first week, Disney says.
That’s an impressive 230% increase over the episode’s live + same-day audience of 4.13M. This is a monster start for Doctor Odyssey.
While most broadcast series grow their audiences quite significantly in the week after they air, once episodes become available on streaming, it is fairly rare for an episode to average 10M viewers in that time frame — let alone blow right past it.
Within three days of viewing, the cruise ship drama had already delivered 7.59M viewers, making it ABC’s best drama premiere in four years, according to Disney.
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