Chalk up one other robust collection debut for Taylor Sheridan: The showrunner’s drama Landman introduced in a large viewers for its Nov. 17 premiere.
The collection opener accrued 5.2 million viewers on Paramount+ and Paramount Community, the place it aired following episode two of Yellowstone’s present run. The streaming portion of that complete makes it the highest Paramount+ collection debut in two years — since one other Sheridan collection, Yellowstone prequel 1923, opened to 7.4 million cross-platform viewers (together with a number of encores) in December 2022.
Paramount+ says Landman, which stars Billy Bob Thornton as a Texas oilman, joins 1923 and Tulsa King because the streamer’s high collection premieres, and that its streaming-only viewers in america is the largest for any authentic on the service after three days.
The 5.2 million viewer complete for Landman comes from VideoAmp linear measurement of the Paramount Community airing and inner streaming knowledge for Paramount+. Like most streaming shops, Paramount+ didn’t supply detailed viewing knowledge, however one other supply of linear scores provides some indication of the break up: In keeping with Nielsen, just below 3 million viewers watched the premiere on Paramount Community, with 400,000 watching a simulcast on CMT. That might would imply about 1.8 million noticed the episode on Paramount+. (Paramount International will not be presently utilizing Nielsen scores as a consequence of a contract dispute, and Nielsen and VideoAmp linear numbers might differ to a point.)
Yellowstone, in the meantime, drew 6.89 million viewers throughout Paramount Community and CMT for its preliminary airing on Nov. 17, in line with Nielsen. The record-breaking premiere per week earlier grew to 21.1 million viewers with three days of extra viewing, per VideoAmp, a progress of 29 % over its night time one viewers.
Sheridan and Christian Wallace co-created Landman, which is predicated on the Texas Month-to-month podcast Boomtown that Wallace hosted. The collection comes from MTV Leisure Studios and 101 Studios; Sheridan and Wallace government produce with 101 Studios’ David C. Glasser, David Hutkin, Ron Burkle and Bob Yari; Geyer Kosinski; Michael Friedman; Stephen Kay; Dan Friedkin and Jason Hoch of Boomtown producer Crucial Leisure; and J.Okay. Nickell and Megan Creydt for Texas Month-to-month. Peter Feldman is co-EP.
