It’s no secret that The Pitt‘s second season was much bigger than its first — HBO Max‘s internal data shows the series averaging 15.4 million viewers over its first 90 days, more than 50 percent higher than the first season in 2025. The show recorded more than a billion viewing minutes in Nielsen’s streaming ratings 13 occasions in its 15 weeks this season.
The year-to-year progress is much more pronounced in some new knowledge from Nielsen — which reveals each week of The Pitt’s second season outpacing its first, and generally greater than doubling the identical week from season one.
The corporate’s common weekly streaming totals embrace all episodes of a sequence. For instance, the 1.13 billion minutes of viewing for The Pitt from April 6-12 contains time viewers spent watching episodes from season one and earlier episodes of season two, along with the one which premiered that week. The brand new knowledge isolates the totals for season two and reveals enormous enhancements yr to yr, significantly by way of the center of the season.
In weeks 4 by way of seven, season two of The Pitt greater than doubled its weekly viewing time from a yr earlier. Weeks three and eight got here near that, enhancing by about 98 % every. The one week the place season one is inside 10 % of season two is week 14 — however that’s largely as a result of The Pitt had a two-episode sequence premiere in 2025, which meant the season finale debuted in week 14.
By means of its full season two run, The Pitt racked up simply over 11 billion minutes of viewing time, in keeping with Nielsen. That’s 92 % greater than the 5.72 billion minutes for the primary season.
From Jan. 5-April 19, all episodes of The Pitt amassed 16.86 billion minutes of viewing. Season two accounts for 65 % of that complete, with the proportion climbing pretty steadily all through the season. The second season premiere made up solely about 35 % of the weekly complete for Jan. 5-11 — no shock because it was accessible for less than a part of that week (it debuted Jan. 8) and was lower than 10 % of the sequence’ complete operating time at that time.
By week 4 of this season, nevertheless, season two made up nearly all of watch time for The Pitt. Beginning in week 11, the present season accounted for greater than 75 % of all viewing for the sequence, in keeping with Nielsen. The proportion dipped some for the ultimate week of the season, probably as a result of viewers had been doing a little catch-up viewing on the primary installment.
Could 14, 1:55 p.m. Up to date with full season two streaming figures for The Pitt.
