The numbers are in and Beckham and Squid Sport: The Problem have topped the charts when it comes to Netflix viewership in the case of non-scripted titles.
The 2 sequence, a docuseries and actuality competitors, had been the seventh and fifteenth most-watched non-scripted exhibits to debut within the second half of 2023, respectively.
However as Netflix continues to delve into the docuseries style and ramp up its actuality choices, how do these exhibits examine to prime exhibits from its earlier knowledge dump, particularly Love Is Blind.
Firstly, it’s sophisticated.
Beckham, which advised the story of the previous Manchester United legend’s profession, debuted in October and scored 43.9M views. This was because of solely being 4 elements.
Squid Sport: The Problem, the fact sequence primarily based on the dystopian scripted sequence, secured 271M views throughout the interval after its launch on the finish of November. However that sequence, which was produced by Studio Lambert and The Backyard, was ten elements.
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Squid Sport: The Problem (Netflix)
Netflix counts views as hours seen divided by runtime.
One of many challenges of evaluating it to Netflix’s earlier viewership launch is that final time across the streamer solely revealed the variety of hours watched.
Utilizing this metric, Beckham totaled 209M hours and Squid Sport: The Problem totaled 271M hours.
This places each exhibits behind the fourth season of Love Is Blind, which totaled 230M hours watched after its launch in March 2023.
The Kinetic Content material-produced courting present’s fifth season, which launched in September 2023, drew 156M hours seen, down from its fourth season, with 14M views. Season 5, nevertheless, was solely 11 episodes, together with its reunion particular, whereas season 4 was 16 episodes together with its reunion particular and “After the Alter” episodes.
Different unscripted highlights for the six months between July and December 2023, embrace Depp V Heard, which scored 77M hours seen and 31.7M views, whereas Life on Our Planet obtained 131M hours seen and 18.9M views.
Season two of true-crime sequence Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal was watched for 31M hours after its September launch, in comparison with season one’s 105M after its February 2023 launch. Each seasons had been three episodes lengthy.