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In brightest day, in blackest night … a fairly large number of people watched the premiere of Lanterns.
The DC Studios series based on the Green Lantern comics amassed 9.3 million viewers worldwide in its first three days on HBO and HBO Max, according to figures from the sibling outlets. About 71 percent of that total (6.6 million) came from the United States.
The U.S. total outperformed the series premieres of several recent-ish HBO shows, including IT: Welcome to Derry (5.7 million in October 2025), The Penguin (5.3 million over four days in September 2024) and True Detective: Night Country (2 million for its first night in January 2024). Lanterns’ U.S. audience comes in just behind the 6.7 million viewers over three days for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms in January.
Worldwide, those four shows all averaged at least 17.5 million viewers over their first 90 days of release (HBO’s cutoff date for audience measurement). Lanterns also becomes the biggest premiere for a DC Studios show on HBO Max, topping The Penguin, Peacemaker and animated series Creature Commandos.
