The 'Bridgerton' prequel has one of many greatest first weeks on the streamer this yr.
The Bridgerton franchise continues to be an enormous draw for Netflix.
The streamer’s debut of Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story was a runaway No. 1 amongst all titles on Netflix for the week of Could 1-7. The prequel, created by Shonda Rhimes, drew 148.28 million hours of viewing worldwide within the 4 days after its Could 4 premiere, in response to Netflix’s inner measurement. It reached the highest 10 in 91 international locations and ranked No. 1 in 76 of these.
That ranks because the fourth finest opening week for any sequence on the streamer to date this yr, behind season two of Ginny & Georgia (180.47 million hours), The Night time Agent (168.17 million) and season three of Outer Banks (154.97 million). Queen Charlotte has a smaller episode depend (six, vs. 10 for the opposite three reveals) and shorter operating time (six hours, 49 minutes) than the others, that are all no less than eight hours.
Queen Charlotte additionally holds up fairly nicely in opposition to the primary week of Bridgerton’s second season in March 2022. The 8-episode, 8 1/2-hour season racked up 193 million hours of viewing in its first week. (Season one predates Netflix’s weekly lists of its high 10 reveals.) Each seasons of the principle sequence rank amongst Netflix’s high 10 English-language reveals all time for viewing over their first 28 days of launch.
After 4 days, Queen Charlotte has an opportunity to interrupt into that all-time high 10. The present Tenth-place present is one other sequence from Rhimes’ Shondaland, Inventing Anna. It drew 511.92 million hours of viewing worldwide over its first 28 days; Queen Charlotte bought 29 p.c of the way in which to that complete over its first 4 days.