Tony Ayers Productions’ mystery series Survivors maintained its position as Netflix’s most-watched Australian television series in the streamer’s latest engagement report, garnering 8.3 million views and 41.1 million total hours watched in the second half of last year.
The report measures engagement by views (total viewing time divided by running time) and represents 96 billion hours watched on Netflix, based on viewing data from July to December.
Charlie Vickers will star as Kieran Elliott in Survivors, which will be released on June 6th. He is a young man whose life changes completely when three people die in the seaside town where he grew up. The series, filmed in Tasmania, reached number 44 in the previous report with 19.7 million views and was ranked 183rd in the latest report.
Other local titles in the top 1000 include Gristmill’s The InBESTigators S1 and S2 (4.2 million and 3.8 million views) and Little Lunch (2.9 million views), Glenpictures’ Gymnastics Academy: A Second Chance (4 million views), Easy Tiger and Ronde Media’s Neo Western Territory (2.7 million views) Contains.
Season 2 of the dark comedy Wednesday was the most-watched show in the report with 124 million views, while season 1 ranked eighth with 47 million views.
Rounding out the top three are Australian teams, with Eric Bana’s limited series Untamed in third place with 92.8 million views.
Bana executive produced and starred in the mystery thriller for Warner Bros. Television. The drama tells the story of a National Park Service special agent whose investigation into a brutal murder brings him into conflict with dark secrets within the park and his own past. This series has been renewed for a second season.
Read the full report here.
