Netflix’s Prince Harry and Meghan series has turn into the streaming giant’s biggest documentary debut up to now.
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The Netflix documentary series about Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has turn into the streaming platform’s biggest documentary debut up to now.
Harry and Meghan amassed 81.55 million hours watched worldwide in its first 4 days of release Netflix he said on Tuesday.
This marks “the best viewing hours of any docuseries in its week of premiere,” the streaming giant said in a press release highlighting its top shows for the week ending December 11.
The primary three episodes of the long-awaited six-part show aired on December 8, and the ultimate three episodes will probably be made available on Thursday.
A tale of two halves
The series, which Netflix described as an “unprecedented and in-depth” documentary, entered the highest 10 streamers list in 85 countries and was ranked primary within the UK
Netflix didn’t immediately reply to CNBC’s request for comparable viewing figures for other documentary debuts.
Nonetheless, Netflix global viewership showed the documentary which ranked because the second most-watched English-language series on the platform throughout the week, behind Tim Burton’s The Addams Family drama “Wednesday”, which recorded 269.67 million views.
Compared, the fifth season of “The Crown”, now in its fifth week of release, recorded 18.9 million views throughout the week.
Harry and Meghan is certainly one of a series of shows the couple are producing as a part of their industrial cope with Netflix.
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The primary three parts of ‘Harry and Meghan’ act as a love letter to the couple’s high-profile relationship, revealing recent details about their first meeting in 2016 in 2020.
Nonetheless, they were notable for each what they excluded and what they included, with some tough questions and no critical voices in any respect times.
Viewers can hope for juicier revelations within the second set of episodes.
Still, the viewership record will probably be seen as a boon for Harry and Meghan as they fight to forge a recent profile outside the royal family.
Directed by Oscar nominee Liz Garbus, Harry and Meghan is certainly one of a series of shows the Sussexes are producing under a industrial cope with Netflix.
Their production house, Archewell Productions, is set to release one other Netflix series, “Heart of Invictus,” in 2023.