By Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Move over “Tiger King,” the world of Netflix’s drama “Ozark” opened to even bigger audiences on its premiere day last month.
According to Nielsen, Season 3 of “Ozark,” the crime drama thriller starring Jason Bateman and Laura Linney, scored an average minute audience of 975,000 U.S.
viewers on its release day (March 27). That’s more than triple the premiere-day U.S. average minute audience for “Tiger King” (280,000 on March 20).
Of course, that makes a bit of sense: “Ozark” is a returning series with a built-in fan base, while “Tiger King” opened as a mostly unknown docuseries that then exploded into a pop cultural phenomenon.
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