Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer “Paradise” had a heavenly opening week, per Disney, which says Hulu’s Sterling K. Brown-led drama from “This Is Us” creator Dan Fogelman drew 7 million views across its first nine days of streaming, Variety has learned.
Those stats (a rarity from a streamer that does not regularly release its viewership data) are based on streaming for the “Paradise” series premiere episode only, which debuted as a surprise release on Hulu and Disney+ at 9 p.m.
ET on Jan. 26 ahead of the scheduled drop of the show’s first three episodes on Jan. 28. The episode streamed across Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ in the U.S.
and Disney+ internationally. Disney defines a “view” as total stream time for an episode divided by its runtime. Episode 1 of “Paradise,” titled “Wildcat Is Down,” clocks in at just-over-48-minutes long.
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