Halo Premiere Sets Paramount+ Viewership Record
Paramount+ has shared some exciting news regarding the recently released Halo series. According to the streaming service, the show has set a record for the platform’s most-watched series premiere in its first 24 hours. While the exact viewership numbers were not released, nor were the parameters for how Paramount+ measures this rate, this is a promising start for the highly anticipated show.
While we don't have the numbers just yet, Deadline offers some perspective on how large Halo’s premiere was. The previous record-holder for the service was the Yellowstone prequel, 1883. The series premiere for the frontier-focused show drew in 4.9 million viewers back in December. An impressive number that has now been toppled by Halo.
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Tanya Giles, the Chief Programming Officer at Paramount+, shared her joy at the success the series has seen. "Bringing Halo to life as a streaming series has been one of the most rewarding efforts for Paramount+ to date", she said. While she didn’t offer any logistics for how well the series has done, she did say that the team "could not be more thrilled at the massive fan response to the series’ debut…we cannot wait for fans to experience more of this incredible universe."
It's been quite a long road for the Halo series to make it to viewer’s screens. Several years ago, a feature film adaptation of the first-person shooter was in the works. Legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg was attached to the project for a while, though it never came to fruition. However, Spielberg never truly gave up on the project as it bounced around studios and formats throughout the years. A television adaptation eventually landed at Showtime, though it stayed in limbo
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