{"id":15461,"date":"2026-07-16T23:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15461"},"modified":"2026-07-16T23:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:25:58","slug":"netflix-stats-and-chill-jan-june-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15461","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Stats and Chill Jan-June 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well it was probably too good to be true, Netflix will be releasing annual reports from Q1 2027 (i.e. they’ve had a slump) so let’s appreciate these numbers whilst we can. You can download the latest set here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top performer of the 2026 intake is Bridgerton<\/em> S4, a total of 889.8m hrs and an effective viewership (i.e. hours watched divded by runtime) of 100.2m people, although the show with the highest effective viewership was His & Hers<\/em> with 104m viewers. As ussual we’ll delve into the competitive unscripted and of interest pile – these are raw numbers, shows released towards the end of the period will have a shorter sampling time than those that have had the full six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlocked: A Jail Experiment S2<\/strong> 7\/1\/26 32.7m hrs, 5.5m viewers
Love Is Blind Germany S2<\/strong> 8\/1\/26 32m, 3.4m
Kill Tony: Once Upon A Time In Texas<\/strong> 12\/1\/26 6.4m, 2.8m
Single’s Inferno S5<\/strong> 20\/1\/26 167.3m, 10m
Star Search<\/strong>: Episodes start at 3.8m, 2.6m viewers and then falls off to well under a million viewers quickly – The Final did 600k.
Skyscraper Live<\/strong> 24\/1\/26 24.4m 12.6m
Is It Cake? Valentines S1<\/strong> 4\/2\/26 6.2m, 8.3m
Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model<\/strong> 16\/2\/26 62.4m, 22.4m
Agents of Mystery S2<\/strong> 27\/2\/26 11.0m, 1.5m
Love Is Blind Sweden S3<\/strong> 12\/3\/26 28.7m, 2.3m
Temptation Island S2<\/strong> 10\/4\/26 58.3m, 6.7m
Million Dollar Secret S2<\/strong> 15\/4\/26 58.2m, 7.5m
Funny AF With Kevin Hart<\/strong> – starts 8m+ viewers, live Finale 3.7m viewers
Love is Blind Poland S1<\/strong> 6\/5\/26 37.4m, 3.3m
Pop Culture Jeopardy<\/strong> 11\/5\/26 5.7m, 600k
Outlast: The Jungle S1<\/strong> 10\/6\/26 58.1m, 8.1m
Lock Upp S1<\/strong> 27\/6\/26 6.7m, 1.5m
Love Is Blind: Argentina S2<\/strong> 28\/6\/26 1.0m, 300k<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve almost certainly missed things of interest so if you can think of something to add let me know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What have we learned? Nothing has really jumped out numbers wise these first six months outside of Single’s Inferno<\/em>. Pop Culture Jeopardy<\/em> as expected from a daily quiz, even with Jeopardy<\/em>‘s mighty brand behind it a bit of a bomb – lower than What’s In The Box<\/strong>, lower than Cheat<\/strong> with Danny Dyer. Not great. Netflix’s reality TV industry docs continue to do well. Their foray into live stuff has been extremely variable – difficult to suggest Star Search<\/em> is a hit really even if it started off pretty well, but Funny AF With Kevin Hart<\/em>, even if it didn’t main its initial interest, still did business throughout. Almost 13m people watched Skyscraper Live<\/em>, although how much of that was live I don’t know. Million Dollar Secret<\/em> is down about 20% on its first series but it’s still at a decent level (in terms of viewership hours it’s just above where Battle Camp was when it got cancelled, but it’s effective viewership is still quite a bit higher). It’s actually been almost two years since the last series of Outlast, it’s been rewarded with 10m extra hours over that series’ initial numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking a look at stuff that was released towards the end of last year, What’s In The Box?<\/strong> added added another 7.8m hours taking it to 17.1m hours, which you can’t really suggest is good but is probably Netflix’s best performing quiz. Culinary Class Wars S2<\/strong> needn’t have worried, it’s added a further 139m hours to add to the 88m it got in the last fortnight of last year. Simon Cowell: The Next Act<\/strong> added 11.4m hours to take it to 30.7m hrs, again not really a hit, but maybe not a bomb either. Squid Game: The Challenge S2<\/strong> only added a further 11.3m hrs to go to 68m – as we said last time, decent numbers by general standards but a humungous drop by it own standard. Physical Asia<\/strong> over the 150m mark – will be very interesting to see how all the upcoming localised versions do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to see what things have done in total between 2023 and 2026, Netflix now have a searchable database<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unofficial ranking of Netflix quiz shows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) What’s In The Box?<\/strong> 17.1m hrs, 3.8m viewers (effective)
2) Bullsh*t: The Game Show<\/strong> 13.1m hrs, 2.4m viewers
3) Cheat<\/strong> 8m hrs, 1.1m viewers
4) Pop Culture Jeopardy<\/strong> 5.7m hrs, 600k viewers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bless them for trying though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well it was probably too good to be true, Netflix will be releasing annual reports from Q1 2027 (i.e. they’ve had a slump) so let’s appreciate these numbers whilst we can. You can download the latest set here. Top performer of the 2026 intake is Bridgerton S4, a total of 889.8m hrs and an effective\u2026 Read More: Netflix Stats and Chill Jan-June 2026 »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-41n","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}