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‘Lioness’ Season 3 Closes With 9.7 Million Viewers in Seven Days, a Series High and the No. 5 Paramount+ Finale Ever

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‘Lioness’ Season 3 Closes With 9.7 Million Viewers in Seven Days, a Series High and the No. 5 Paramount+ Finale Ever
Oct 20, 2026 12:00pm PT ‘Lioness’ Season 3 Closes With 9.7 Million Viewers in Seven Days, a Series High and the No. 5 Paramount+ Finale Ever

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See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source L-R: Nicole Kidman as Kaitlyn and Zoe Saldaña as Joe in Lioness, episode 8 Season 3, streaming on Paramount+, 2025. Photo Credit: Lauren”Lo” Smith/Paramount+ Lauren "Lo" Smith/Paramount+

“Lioness” showed strong audience growth throughout its third season and ended on a high note: The finale reached 9.7 million viewers in its first seven days of availability.

That total marks not only the most-watched episode in the series’ history, but the No. 5 most-watched finale of all time compared to other Paramount+ originals. Additionally, the series saw an average of 8.5 million viewers per week throughout Season 3, which ran from Aug. 2 to Sept. 20, showing a 62% increase from Season 2’s weekly average in 2024. Each week of Season 3 brought in more viewers than the week before it.

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