The Season 3 premiere of “ The Bear ” reached 5.4 million views in its first four days of streaming, according to Disney. That marks not only the best performance ever for an FX premiere on Hulu , but the most-watched season premiere for any scripted series on Hulu.
With unscripted series included, “The Bear Season 3 is Hulu’s third-biggest season premiere of all time. (Note: a view is calculated by dividing the total time a title was watched by its runtime.) Additionally, Disney says this puts Season 3 of “The Bear” at 24% more views than the Season 2 premiere achieved in the same amount of time.
That’s a second consecutive season of growth for “The Bear,” which reached surprise word-of-mouth success in Season 1 and grew in viewership by 70% with Season 2 . The 5.4 million total accounts for viewership on Hulu as well as Hulu on Disney+ in the U.
S., and on Disney+ in international territories where the episode was available, though the episode is not yet available in some territories. Disney says that Hulu on Disney+ gave the season a “significant boost,” and that it achieved the biggest Hulu on Disney+ premiere since the bundle launched on March 27.
Season 3 follows Carmy (Jeremy Allen White), Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) and the rest of The Bear staff as they wade through the early days after opening the restaurant. Abby Elliott, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, Matty Matheson, Oliver Platt and Molly Gordon also star. “The Bear.
