ABC is expanded the first season of the hit drama series Big Sky, issuing a full-season order that amounts to 16 episodes.
The show was initially given a 10-episode order, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing most shows likely won’t get to the typical 22 or 24-episode order that they would in a typical season, due to COVID-19 restrictions.
While the show’s debut was decent, it has more than doubled its premiere total in multi-platform viewing, leading to the additional six-episode order.
Full season: ABC is expanded the first season of the hit drama series Big Sky, issuing a full-season order that amounts to 16 episodes
More episodes: While the show’s debut was decent, it has more than doubled its premiere total in multi-platform viewing, leading to the additional six-episode order
Big Sky, based on the C.J. Box novel series, has pulled in an average of 4.25 million viewers per episode, over the three that have aired so far.
While those numbers aren’t massive by any means, it has more than doubled its audience in multi-platform viewing.
The show’s premiere episode, which aired on November 17 with 4.15 million viewers watching live, pulled in a massive 10.8 million viewers in all platforms after seven days.
Doubled: While those numbers aren’t massive by any means, it has more than doubled its audience in multi-platform viewing
Ratings: Big Sky, based on the C.J. Box novel series, has pulled in an average of 4.25 million viewers per episode, over the three that have aired so far
Big Sky follows private detectives Cody Hoyt (Ryan Philippe) and Cassie Dewell (Kylie Bunburry) who team up with Cody’s estranged wife and ex-cop Jenny Hoyt (Kathryn Winnick) to try and find two missing teenage girls in Montana.
They discover that these girls were not the only girls to go missing in Big Sky country, as they try to find who’s responsible before it’s too late.
The show also stars Brian Geraghty, Deedee Phieffer, Natalie Alyn Lind, Jesse James Keitel, Jade Pettyjohn, Valerie Mahaffey and John Carroll Lynch.
Private eye: Big Sky follows private detectives Cody Hoyt (Ryan Philippe) and Cassie Dewell (Kylie Bunburry) who team up with Cody’s estranged wife and ex-cop Jenny Hoyt (Kathryn Winnick) to try and find two missing teenage girls in Montana
Cast: The show also stars Brian Geraghty, Deedee Phieffer, Natalie Alyn Lind, Jesse James Keitel, Jade Pettyjohn, Valerie Mahaffey and John Carroll Lynch
While the show has been doing well in the ratings, it has been controversial as well, with the show facing criticism from Native American groups.
Several groups, including the Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council, Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana and Global Indigenous Council, sent a letter to ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke, executive director of corporate social responsibility David Ambroz, series executive producer Matthew Gross and series creator David E. Kelley.
The letter expressed their, ‘serious concerns of at best, cultural insensitivity, and at worst, appropriation, in respect to the soon-to-be premiered series’ in November.
Criticism: While the show has been doing well in the ratings, it has been controversial as well, with the show facing criticism from Native American groups
Groups: Several groups, including the Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council, Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana and Global Indigenous Council, sent a letter to ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke, executive director of corporate social responsibility David Ambroz, series executive producer Matthew Gross and series creator David E. Kelley
Kelley responded in a statement last week, that, ‘our eyes have been opened to the outsized number of Native American and Indigenous women who go missing and are murdered each year, a sad and shocking fact.’
He added that they would work to ‘bring attention’ to the issue through the show, and now that they have six more episodes, they have more opportunity to do so.
Big Sky airs its fourth episode, entitled Unfinished Business, on Tuesday, December 8 at 10 PM ET on ABC.
Missing: Kelley responded in a statement last week, that, ‘our eyes have been opened to the outsized number of Native American and Indigenous women who go missing and are murdered each year, a sad and shocking fact’
Attention: He added that they would work to ‘bring attention’ to the issue through the show, and now that they have six more episodes, they have more opportunity to do so