{"id":88512,"date":"2025-08-22T22:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/88512\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T22:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:16:06","slug":"the-rainmaker-performs-well-in-ratings-for-usa-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/88512\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Rainmaker&#8217; Performs Well In Ratings For USA Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-rainmaker\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-rainmaker\" data-tag=\"the-rainmaker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Rainmaker<\/a>, the first original scripted series under the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/versant\/\" id=\"auto-tag_versant\" data-tag=\"versant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Versant<\/a> moniker, has gotten off to a solid start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe legal drama, which airs on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/usa-network\/\" id=\"auto-tag_usa-network\" data-tag=\"usa-network\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USA Network<\/a>, part of the soon-to-be spun-off cable portfolio, drew 2.2M in its first three days. It was helped by the fact that it debuted as a simulcast across five networks and Peacock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThis made it the most-viewed original series premiere in the Versant portfolio since the launch of Syfy\u2019s Resident Alien in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPer Versant, it also became the number one scripted cable original series premiere on linear TV in 2025 with 39% more viewers than TNT\u2019s Librarians: Next Chapter, which was the second-ranked series premiere. However, there haven\u2019t been as many scripted premieres on cable this year as there has been over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe company said that The Rainmaker has reached 6.3 million viewers on linear TV to date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe John Grisham adaptation, which airs tonight at 10pm on USA Network,<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFrom showrunner and executive producer Michael Seitzman, the Lionsgate and Blumhouse-produced series follows Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan) who, fresh out of law school, goes head-to-head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond (John Slattery) and his law school girlfriend Sarah Plankmore (Madison Iseman). Rudy, along with his boss (Lana Parrilla) and her disheveled paralegal, uncover two connected conspiracies surrounding the mysterious death of their client\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe cast also includes Madison Iseman, P.J. Byrne, Dan Fogler, Wade Briggs and Robyn Cara.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Rainmaker\u00a0received a series order from the NBCUniversal cable network in June 2024, capping a six-year journey by Seitzman to bring the book to TV. Seitzman and Jason Richman wrote the pilot script, with Seitzman to serve as showrunner. The two are executive producing with Grisham, Jason Blum and David Gernert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tVersant also operates CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rainmaker, the first original scripted series under the Versant moniker, has gotten off to a solid start.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,55500,427,50879,66012],"class_list":{"0":"post-88512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-the-rainmaker","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-usa-network","14":"tag-versant"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}