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“The White Lotus” and “Succession” have a lot in common.

The two HBOs show Skewer the rich and the first with low expectations before taking fire, to delight viewers, criticisms, EMMY voters and anyone capable of creating and wrapping a meme. The creators of the two shows – Mike White with “The White Lotus” and Jesse Armstrong with “succession” – are praised as authors of good faith due to success.

But there is a significant difference between them: “The White Lotus” has developed a much wider audience.

The third season, which ends on Sunday evening, is the most popular in the series, according to internal statistics from HBO and Nielsen, the research firm. The last total audience totals seem ready to catapult “The White Lotus” in the highest level of HBO’s most popular programs.

Here is a context. The first season of “The White Lotus”, which was created in July 2021, had an audience of around nine million in the United States, according to HBO statistics, which include the audience on cable television and the company streaming service, now called Max. It was roughly the same size as the public for the fourth and last season of “succession”, which ended in May 2023.

The second season of “The White Lotus”, which made its debut in October 2022, reached more than 15 million viewers, and this season is on the right track to have at least 18 million, said a spokesperson for HBO. Depending on the number of additional viewers who catch up with the last episodes, this figure could get closer to 20 million.

This would be in accordance with the second season of Euphoria, the HBO struck which won more than 19 million viewers in its first in January 2022. (The third season of Euphoria, now in production, is probably its last.)