{"id":81905,"date":"2025-10-16T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81905\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T09:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:52:10","slug":"james-gunns-peacemaker-season-2-ratings-flops-hard-loses-nearly-40-of-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81905\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn\u2019s Peacemaker Season 2 Ratings Flops Hard \u2014 Loses Nearly 40% of Viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Gunn\u2019s Peacemaker Season 2 is a confirmed flop.<\/p>\n

Samba TV reports that the Peacemaker Season 2 finale was watched by 435k households over its first four days \u2014 that\u2019s 150k fewer than the Season 1 finale, which reached 584k households.<\/p>\n

\"samba<\/p>\n

Ratings Fall Off Despite Strong Start<\/p>\n

Season 2 began with momentum, pulling 22% more viewers for its premiere than the Season 1 finale<\/a>. That shows fans were excited for the second season, but that early interest didn\u2019t hold. <\/p>\n

However, by the time the Season 2 finale hit, viewership had dropped roughly 39% from the premiere \u2014 a steep decline that erased the show\u2019s early boost.<\/p>\n

Adding to that, none of the Season 2 episodes appeared on the weekly Nielsen streaming charts<\/a>, suggesting overall engagement fell short of expectations for a show once seen as a breakout DCU hit.<\/p>\n

\"samba<\/p>\n

Gunn Confirms No Season 3<\/p>\n

The numbers come just as James Gunn confirmed Peacemaker won\u2019t be returning for a third season. <\/p>\n

While he didn\u2019t elaborate, it seems obvious that the decline in viewership is the reason (if it was a hit, you can bet there would be a Season 3). <\/p>\n

It should also be noted that Gunn billed Peacemaker Season 2 as a sequel to his Superman movie. However, fans bailing on the series suggests their disappointment with Gunn and the DCU.<\/p>\n

\"Fortnite<\/p>\n

DCU Momentum Questioned<\/p>\n

With Superman reportedly underperforming financially<\/a> (just as we first told you) and Peacemaker losing viewers by the end of Season 2, questions remain about Gunn\u2019s overall DCU direction. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve actually been told that once Warner Bros. Discovery is sold, Gunn is out as head of DC Studios<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Gunn\u2019s Peacemaker Season 2 is a confirmed flop. Samba TV reports that the Peacemaker Season 2 finale…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,3991,18621,111,139,69,5529,3997,437],"class_list":["post-81905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-james-gunn","tag-john-cena","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-peacemaker","tag-superman","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}