The Night Agent struggled to copy its early scores success with Season 3 dropping 40% of its Season 2 opening viewers.
The Gabriel Basso-led drama sequence took the quantity two spot in Netflix’s weekly scores report with 8.4M views.
While this can be a strong quantity for the streamer in a premiere week, it is heavily down from the 13.9M that tuned in to the show during the first week of Season 2 with a similar release pattern.
All of this comes after Season 1 was a barnstorming hit for Netflix; the present launched in March 2023 when the streamer was nonetheless reporting viewership in “hours viewed”. It scored 168.7M hours in its opening week, which roughly interprets to round 21M views.
The first season is quantity ten on Netflix’s Most Popular English TV listing, behind Bridgerton, The Queen’s Gambit, Dahmer: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Stranger Things, Adolescence and Wednesday.
The third season of the sequence sees Basso’s Peter Sutherland having to stay with the implications of creating a take care of shadowy intelligence dealer Jacob Monroe (Louis Herthum), getting him intel that saved Rose and hundreds of others however possible swayed a Presidential election, handing the victory to Governor Richard Hagan (Ward Horton). Peter’s feeling of guilt solely grows deeper as he, together with intrepid reporter Isabel (Genesis Rodriguez), uncover the extent of Hagan and the First Lady’s (Jennifer Morrison) dealings with Monroe as a part of a darkish cash community.
Season 3 of the present introduces its highest-profile new cast so far, with three new sequence regulars who’ve led their very own exhibits, David Lyons, Jennifer Morrison and Stephen Moyer. Lyons will play a former spy lured out of retirement, Morrison will play the First Lady, and Moyer will play a high hitman.
The sequence is produced by Sony Pictures Television and comes from creator Shawn Ryan, who additionally serves as showrunner. He exec produces alongside Marney Hochman government produces by way of MiddKid Productions alongside Paul Bernard, Munis Rashid, Seth Fisher, Guy Ferland, Exhibit A Films’ Seth Gordon and Julia Gunn, Sunset Lane Media’s David Beaubaire in addition to Project X Entertainment’s Paul Neinstein, William Sherak, Nicole Tossou and James Vanderbilt.
Elsewhere, NBC drama The Hunting Party scored an honest opening.
The series is clearly on the bubble at NBC, the place it the second lowest rated drama sequence on NBC in linear. But Season 1 simply dropped on Netflix as a part of a rising licensing drive by the streamer and landed at quantity seven on the listing with 3.5M views. This was significantly spectacular provided that Netflix solely has the U.S. rights to the present.
The Hunting Party, which comes from creators JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn, stars Melissa Roxburgh and follows a small group of investigators who’re assembled to trace down and seize essentially the most harmful killers our nation has ever seen, all of whom have simply escaped from a top-secret jail that’s not speculated to exist. Nick Wechsler, Patrick Sabongui, Josh McKenzie and Sara Garcia additionally star.
