4.8 million viewers, another record

After reaching a series of 4.2 million viewers last week, “The White Lotus” raised its side ceiling again.

Mike White’s HBO series has reached 4.8 million viewers with the seventh episode of its third season on Sunday, an increase of 14% compared to last week’s record. This total comes from a combination of Nielsen’s measurement of linear viewers on the HBO cable channel and Warner Bros.’s own data. Discovery concerning flows on max.

The new series was expected on the basis of audience trends in the previous season. The instantaneous buzz around the release of episode 6 of last week came in part because of a shocking sex scene; Likewise, a jaw in the fifth episode of season 2 caused a summit of 2.3 million viewers of the time, and was followed by increases to 2.8 million viewers and 4.1 million viewers with the last two outings of the season. The final of season 2 retained its record until the big episode of last week.

According to HBO, season 3 is currently an average of 15 million viewers when taking into account the delayed views of streaming after the beginnings of each episode. It is not until half a million delays of the average for season 2 after 90 days of streaming, despite the fact that the first in season 3 has only been available for 43 days so far. HBO also notes that “The White Lotus” saw a global audience high throughout the week between episodes 6 and 7, as the series did in each of the previous five weeks since the start of the new season.