FX‘s Shōgun came out of the gate strong with its streaming debut. According to Disney, the premiere episode of the limited series amassed 9M views globally across Hulu, Disney+ and Star+ in its first six days on these services.
Internationally, this makes Shōgun the No. 1 general entertainment series for the company, surpassing The Kardashians Season 1.
Domestically, Disney says that Shōgun inched ahead of The Bear Season 2 to become the No. 1 FX premiere on its streaming platforms, certainly aided by the fact that FX releases now go to both Disney+ and Hulu in the U.S.
The Bear Season 2 didn’t have that luxury. Disney defines “views” as total stream time divided by runtime, similar to Netflix.
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