‘Bridgerton’ Season 3 Burns Up Netflix Global Top 10 TV Shows Chart In Debut
Luke Newton and Nicola Coughlan in “Bridgerton” Season 3.
Netflix’s Bridgerton is back for Season 3 and viewers are streaming the sexually explicit romantic drama in big numbers.
Bridgerton made its two-part Season 3 debut with four episodes on May 16. Season 3 Part 2 will begin streaming on June 13.
Starring Nicola Coughlan, Luke Newton and Claudia Jessie as Penelope Featherington, Colin Bridgerton and Eloise Bridgerton, respectively, Bridgerton debuted at No. 1 on the Netflix Global Top 10 TV Shows chart for the week of May 13-19.
In its debut, Bridgerton Season 3 attracted 45 million views, which equates to 165.2 million viewing hours.
Bridgerton Season 3 has been embraced by Rotten Tomatoes critics, who have collectively given it an 85% “fresh” rating based on 52 reviews. The Season 3 Audience Score on RT is currently at 88% positive based on 500-plus verified user ratings.
Coming in at No. 2 in its first week of release is the three-part docuseries Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal, which attracted 9.5 million views, which translates to 24.6 million viewing hours.
The docuseries chronicles the rise and fall of the controversial dating site Ashley Madison, which was established in the early 2000s for married people who wanted to cheat on their spouses.
In 2015, however, the Ashley Madison site was hacked and since executives refused to shut the platform down, the hacking group The Impact Team released personal data and photos on the site’s 37 million users. According to the docuseries, the site remains in operation to this day.
‘Baby Reindeer’ Continues To Attract Big Viewership
Netflix’s smash hit limited series Baby Reindeer continued to bring in viewers in its sixth week of release with 7.4 million views, which translates to 29.5 million viewing hours.
The series—which is based on comedian Richard Gadd’s alleged real-life encounter with a stalker—has also become a compelling, worldwide news story in addition to becoming a streaming sensation.
Outed by internet sleuths, Fiona Harvey—the alleged stalker whom Gadd named “Martha” for the series—recently identified herself publicly in an interview with the eponymous host of Piers Morgan Uncensored on the journalist’s YouTube channel.
Morgan recently announced that he’s been pursuing Gadd as well for an interview.
Gadd has previously indicated in interviews how Baby Reindeer has been fictionalized for the Netflix version of the tale—which is based on his hit 2019 UK one-man stage show. Gadd has noted, however, that “emotionally, it’s all 100% true.”
After the opening scene in the first episode of Baby Reindeer, the line “This is a true story” appears on the screen.
Coming in at No. 4 on Netflix’s Global Top 10 TV Shows chart for the week of May 13-19 is Bridgerton Season 1, which was viewed 4.5 million times, equating to 37.3 million viewing hours.
The comedy special Kevin Hart: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor debuted at No. 5 in its first week on the streaming service. The special had 4.1 million views, which translates to 5.4 million viewing hours.
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