Percy Jackson and the Olympians has eclipsed the Goosebumps debut to become the top Disney Branded Television premiere of all time with the first episode amassing 13.3M views globally across both Disney+ and Hulu in its first six days streaming, the company said Tuesday.
The Disney+ original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television dropped early on Dec. 19 at 6PM PT, with Episodes 1 and 2 on Disney+, and Episode 1 on Hulu. Subsequent episodes of the eight-part series are set to debut weekly on Tuesdays at 6PM PT on Disney+. Episode 3 drops today.
Additionally, percyjackson on TikTok received 212M views within the last 7 days in the US, per TikTok for Business.
The Goosebumps reboot, which was available on both Disney+ and Hulu, drew 4.2M views in its first three days of release, Disney said in October.
Based on Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series by Rick Riordan, the well reviewed Percy Jackson and the Olympians stars Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson, Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase and Aryan Simhadri as Grover Underwood.
Created by Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, the series is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Monica Owusu-Breen, Anders Engström, and Jet Wilkinson.
