The Loudest Voice Ratings Pump Up The Volume; Premiere Tops 2M In Delayed Viewing & Streaming

The volume is certainly starting to rise for Showtimes The Loudest Voice.

Coming off a bit of a whisper of a debut on June 30, the Russell Crowe-led bioseries on Fox News Channel Svengali and alleged serial sexual predator Roger Ailes has now topped 2 million viewers, according to the CBS-owned premium cabler.

That 602% uptick, to put it mildly, from the fewer than 300,000 who tuned in for the first linear airing of the seven-episode series has exceeded Showtimes own multi-platform expectations, I hear. The strongest portion of the expanded viewership has come from streaming and on-demand, with word of mouth being given as the primary reason – a mix of old-school and new-school small-screen habits when you think about it.

Silencing pessimists even more, the series executive produced by Tom McCarthy had a pretty good second week too. Centered on those horrible days in September 2001 when America was under direct attack by the forces of terror, the Kari Skogland-directed eRead More – Source

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