The newly released Netflix series Wednesday has set some massive records for the streamer, the company revealed on Tuesday. The Addams Family spin-off series, debuted in the #1 spot on Netflix with a record breaking 341.23 million hours viewed in the week starting November 21st. Over 50 million households having watched the series (341 million hours viewed divided by 6.8 hours) which now holds the record for the most hours viewed in a week for an English-language TV series on Netflix. Starring Jenna Ortega as Wednesday, with a supporting cast including Christina Ricci, Catherine Zeta-Jone and Luis Guzmán – and directed and executive produced by Tim Burton – the series was #1 in 83 countries, tied with Stranger Things season 4.
German sci-fi series 1899 continued to take fans on a multilingual journey and took the #2 spot with 87.89 million hours viewed. Season 5 of The Crown continued to pull in audiences with 42.36 million hours viewed. The fictional drama, inspired by real events, was in the Top 10 in 74 countries. The third and final season of Dead to Me had 33.33 million hours viewed, while Season 1 entered the list with 11.94 million hours viewed. Fans continued to visit multiple seasons of mystery drama Manifest; Season 1 (15.01 million hours viewed), Season 3 (12.26 million hours viewed) and Season 4 (21.6 million hours viewed). Documentary series Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? entered the list with 14.16 million hours viewed.
Wednesday is an eight-episode series described as a coming-of-age comedy that will be a sleuthing, supernaturally-infused mystery. The live-action series will be led by Jenna Ortega (Yes Day) in her first major TV project as the titular lead, along with Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams, Victor Dorobantu as Thing, Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams, and George Burcea as Lurch.
“The series will chart the titular heroine’s years as a student at the peculiar Nevermore Academy as she attempts to master her emerging psychic ability,” reads the synopsis, “While also thwarting a monstrous killing spree terrorizing the local town and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships of the strange and diverse student body.”
