{"id":149843,"date":"2025-09-11T21:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/149843\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T21:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:04:08","slug":"task-shows-signs-of-early-success-on-hbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/149843\/","title":{"rendered":"Task Shows Signs Of Early Success On HBO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo\" data-tag=\"hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a> is seeing early signs of success with its latest drama series, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/task\/\" id=\"auto-tag_task\" data-tag=\"task\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Task<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe premiere episode drew 3.1M U.S. viewers in its first three days of availability across HBO and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo-max\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo-max\" data-tag=\"hbo-max\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO Max<\/a>, putting it among the top five HBO series debuts in the streamer\u2019s history, according to Warner Bros. Discovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPer WBD, the Task premiere audience is up 26% versus creator <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/brad-ingelsby\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brad-ingelsby\" data-tag=\"brad-ingelsby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Ingelsby<\/a>\u2018s previous HBO outing, Mare of Easttown, which bodes quite well for the new <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mark-ruffalo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mark-ruffalo\" data-tag=\"mark-ruffalo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Ruffalo<\/a>-led series. Mare of Easttown went on to average 12.9M viewers per episode for the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhile the company didn\u2019t share global viewership, it did say that Task has been the top title globally on HBO Max since its arrival on the platform Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSet in the Philadelphia area, Task follows an FBI agent (Mark Ruffalo) as he heads a task force to put an end to a string of violent robberies led by an unsuspecting family man (Tom Pelphrey). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCast also includes Emilia Jones, Jamie McShane, Sam Keeley, Thuso Mbedu, Fabien Frankel, Alison Oliver, Ra\u00fal Castillo, Silvia Dionicio and Phoebe Fox.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIngelsby created the series and serves as writer, showrunner, and executive producer. Jeremiah Zagar and Salli Richardson-Whitfield direct and executive produce. Additionally, Mark Roybal and Paul Lee executive produce for wiip, along with Ruffalo; David Crockett and Ron Schmidt. Nicole Jordan-Webber and Jeremy Yaches serve as co-executive producers for Public Record.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HBO is seeing early signs of success with its latest drama series, Task. The premiere episode drew 3.1M&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[87457,88,1035,1010,41215,54848,9611],"class_list":{"0":"post-149843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-brad-ingelsby","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hbo","11":"tag-hbo-max","12":"tag-mark-ruffalo","13":"tag-task","14":"tag-tv-ratings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}