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Welcome alongside to a different prime 10 report the place we’re overlaying the highest 40 most-watched sequence and films for the week ending August thirty first. This week’s prime tales cowl the return of My Life with the Walter Boys, the debut of The Thursday Homicide Membership, and the muted return of With Love, Meghan, plus different tales.
These numbers are sourced from Netflix’s official top 10 site. You may also browse all of Netflix’s information simply utilizing our top 10 search tool.
As all the time, let’s see how this week’s prime 10s stack up towards prior weeks:
- English TV – 53,900,000 views (Rank 31 of 115 weeks)
- English Movie – 92,100,000 (Rank 23 of 115 weeks)
- Non-English TV – 32,000,000 (Rank 32 of 115 weeks)
- Non-English Movie – 46,200,000 (Rank 28 of 115 weeks)
1. My Life with the Walter Boys Season 2 vs Season 1
The massive new sequence of the week demonstrates why Netflix had sufficient religion to order a season 3 nicely forward of season 2 airing. My Life with the Walter Boys views grew 57% season over season, debuting with 88M hours watched, equating to 11.8M views.
How does My Life with the Walter Boys examine to different 2025 sequence premieres on Thursdays? Fairly nicely. It’s within the prime third however notably beloww XO, Kitty and Ginny and Georgia, however comfortably forward of among the large debuts for this yr and positively forward of returning reveals that acquired canceled. Put one other manner, Netflix was proper to resume this one for a season 3 forward of time.
2. KPop Demon Hunters Grows 18% With The Sing-Alongside Re-Launch
Final week, KPop Demon Hunters grew to become Netflix’s most-watched film in its historical past, lastly unseating Crimson Discover after a few years of it wanting like it might be untouchable. Together with that report being damaged, Netflix launched it in theaters for a restricted occasion with a Sing-along model, which then dropped on Netflix the next Monday.
That’s resulted in a 30% rise in viewing hours this week, a very unprecedented feat, however that’s as a result of Netflix is combining the first film viewership and the Sing-Alongside, which has been charting within the each day prime 10s seperately, and Sing-Alongside variations have beforehand been handled seperately within the Netflix Engagement Experiences (see My Little Pony).
Nonetheless, Netflix has opted to mix all of them for these numbers. We’ve acquired clarification that the 91-day quantity will begin from the discharge in June.
Right here’s the up to date chart for the film, evaluating it towards Netflix’s earlier large hitters, which now look comparatively small…
3. The Thursday Homicide Membership
For probably the most half, Netflix releases its English-language scripted films on Fridays, however an exception, in fact, needed to be made for The Thursday Homicide Membership, given its title, and it was launched on a Thursday. The Richard Osman adaptation did choose up a slew of excellent evaluations, however how did it do viewership-wise? It debuted with 49.3M hours watched, which equates to 24.7M views.
Given its uncommon launch date, doing actual comps isn’t the simplest, as there aren’t too many movies to match it to, as they’re largely rom-coms, however right here goes:
Fairly good! However what if we have been to interrupt the principles and examine it towards films launched on a Friday this yr? The place does it stack up? Someplace proper within the center, which, given it had an additional day (Netflix’s numbers run by way of Sunday), may very well be seen as somewhat disappointing.
4. With Love, Meghan Flops
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Season 2 of With Love, Meghan didn’t come out of the gate swinging this week. It didn’t crack the worldwide prime 10, that means it drew lower than 2.1M views for its opening week, and worse nonetheless, it solely broke into the each day prime 10s in Australia for 1 day on August twenty ninth at place 10. It’s additionally featured within the Shri Lankan prime 10 for five days. It’s not featured in every other nation’s each day prime 10s.
Distinction that with season 1, which featured within the each day prime 10s in 56 nations, with one week in the top 10 with 2.6M views.
Netflix acquired forward of this viewership information with a “tender” renewal of their total take care of Meghan and Harry’s manufacturing firm. A vacation particular for the present remains to be to return in 2025.
5. Unknown Quantity: The Excessive College Catfish
True-crime remains to be large. Who knew!? A stable debut for the brand new Skye Borgman doc (Kidnapped in Plain Sight, Lady within the Image) overlaying the story of a teen lady and her boyfriend who face persistent harassment from an unknown caller We’re seeing a number of TikToks and different social posts going viral for this documentary so we’re most likely going to see a formidable rise in viewership in week 1.
6. Katrina: Come Hell and Excessive Water
To mark the twentieth anniversary of the devastating Hurricane Katrina, Netflix launched a restricted sequence produced by Spike Lee. Naturally, the viewership is closely skewed to the US, the place it’s been #1 daily since its launch, though it has featured within the prime 10s across the globe.
7. Two Graves
Netflix Spain has a large hit on its fingers with Two Graves, which is simply bested lately by Berlin and Cash Heist. There’s a connection there which might clarify it, on condition that the Professor (Álvaro Morte) stars in each titles. Netflix lists the present as a restricted sequence, however given the numbers thus far, fingers crossed that would change.
8. Hostage
The Suranne Jones British scripted sequence Hostage grew its views by 7% in week 2. Which means it’s performing fairly nicely, however beneath among the different latest British heavy-hitters, albeit monitoring above Poisonous City.
9. Bon Appétit Your Majesty is quietly crushing it within the weekly prime 10s
Final week, Frederic pointed out in his newsletter how Bon Appétit, Your Majesty had an enormous begin on Netflix and that’s continued in week 2, placing a transparent distance between it and among the different weekly Ok-dramas which have dropped on Netflix lately. Views grew from 3.5M to eight.1M in week two and we anticipate an excellent long term within the weeks to return.
These are our greatest tales from the highest 10s this week – what are you most shocked about? What have you ever been watching? Tell us within the feedback.
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