The Great Indian Kapil Show premiered its third season on Netflix on 21st June, 2025, with the first guest being Salman Khan who promoted his film Sikandar. This episode is also the most watched episode of the season so far, but the overall viewership is still in decline compared to the first season of the show.
This has been a recurring trend for The Great Indian Kapil Show, as the first two episodes of season 2 also had lower viewership numbers compared to season 1. When ranking the premiere episodes of seasons 1 and 3, the first season premiere featuring Ranbir Kapoor had the highest viewership with 2.4 million views. The third season premiere with Salman Khan at 1.6 million views is a far cry from those heights.
The Great Indian Kapil show season 3 viewership declined after the premiere
The viewership numbers for season 3 of The Great Indian Kapil Show have continued to decline since the premiere episode.
The second episode of season 3 featured the cast of the Hindi film Metro In Dino, and the third episode of season 3 featured appearances from cricketers Gautam Gambhir, Rishabh Pant, Yuzvendra Chahal, and others. Netflix has not released individual episode numbers for the show, instead giving out cumulative weekly numbers.
Going by the data, after the first week’s premiere’s 1.6 million views, the second week had 2 million cumulative views, and the third week had 1.2 million cumulative views. These numbers clearly indicated that neither the second nor third episodes could match the viewership of the third season premiere. And the third season premiere has already failed to capture the peak viewership numbers of the first season.