Last week, Disney released the first two episodes of “Percy Jackson And The Olympians” were released on Disney+ around the world. Also Disney tried to boost the viewing numbers for the show by doing an unannounced primetime viewing release a few hours earlier, and also releasing the first episode on Hulu.

The series is based on the best-selling book series by Rick Riordan and it tells the story of Percy Jackson, who is on a dangerous quest and has to outrun monsters and outwit gods, as he journeys across America to return Zeus’ master bolt and stop an all-out war. After losing his mother, Percy is sheltered at Camp Half-Blood, a sanctuary for demigod children. He must prove himself and confront his origins once he discovers he too is a demigod, and will take off into the perils of pursuing enemies in search of the Underworld. With the help of his quest mates Annabeth and Grover, Percy’s journey will lead him closer to the answers he seeks: how to fit into a world where he feels out of place, if he’ll ever see his mother again, and if he can ever find out who he’s destined to be.

It was revealed earlier this week that the first episode was viewed 13.3 million globally across Disney+ and Hulu in its first six days of streaming.

And today, Samba TV has revealed that 900k US households tuned in to the series premiere of “Percy Jackson And The Olympians” within its first six days.

The Disney+ show is already a hit with younger audiences, with Gen Z households over-indexing by double digits.

When compared to other recent releases, the first episode from the last batch of Netflix’s “The Crown” pulled in 691k US households and “855k US households watched Virgin River” latest season.

Also, when compared with other recent Disney+ releases, the season premiere of “Ashoka” was watched by 1.2 million US households, and 1.6 million US households watched the season 3 premiere of “The Mandalorian”.

Compared to other recent major reasons, “Percy Jackson And The Olympians” has had a very strong debut and hopefully, more people watch the show over the holidays, plus with new episodes of the series are being released each week.

“Percy Jackson and the Olympians” stars Walker Scobell (“Percy Jackson”), Leah Sava Jeffries (“Annabeth Chase”), and Aryan Simhadri (“Grover Underwood.)   The show is created by Rick Riordan and Jon Steinberg, “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” 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, Jet Wilkinson.

The first three episodes of “Percy Jackson And The Olympians” are now available to stream on Disney+ around the world.

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Roger Palmer

Roger has been a Disney fan since he was a kid and this interest has grown over the years. He has visited Disney Parks around the globe and has a vast collection of Disney movies and collectibles. He is the owner of What's On Disney Plus & DisKingdom. Email: Roger@WhatsOnDisneyPlus.com Twitter: Twitter.com/RogPalmerUK Facebook: Facebook.com/rogpalmeruk

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