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“Sirens” lured in an impressive audience in its opening weekend, becoming the most-watched English-language TV show of the week.
The five-episode series, which stars Julianne Moore, Meghann Fahy and Milly Alcock, brought in 16.7 million views across its first four days on Netflix, debuting as the most-watched TV show during the week of May 19. “Sirens” brought in the biggest audience for a TV series since “Adolescence,” which scored 17.8 million views during the week of March 31, and outpaced the debuts of “The Four Seasons” and “Forever,” which debuted to viewerships of 11.9 million and 3.7 million, respectively.
Meanwhile, “The Four Seasons” and “Forever,” both of which were renewed for sophomore seasons by Netflix, slid down on the list into the No. 6 and No. 7 spot on the English-language TV list, with both titles logging 3.2 million views.
The rest of the top spots on the TV top 10 list were filled by “American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden,” which took the No. 2 spot with 10.7 million views, “Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story,” which took third place with 6 million views, “Bet” Season 1, which scored the No. 4 spot with 5 million views, and “Love, Death & Robots” Volume 4, which came in fifth place with 3.4 million views.
Tyler Perry’s “She the People” debuted as the No. 8 most-watched English-language TV show of the week with 2.7 million views, while the May 19 installment of WWE’s Monday Night Raw took the No. 9 spot with 2.7 million views and “Ms. Rachel” came in tenth place with 2.2 million views.
On the film front, “Fear Street: Prom Queen” debuted as the most-watched English-language movie of the week with 10.7 million views in just over three days. “Fear Street: Prom Queen” dethroned “Nonna’s” as the top movie as “Nonna’s” slid from last week’s viewership of 20 million to 8.4 million views, reaching third place behind “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” which took the No. 2 spot with 8.7 million views.
“Exterritorial” climbed back to become the No. 1 non-English-language film of the week with 5.4 million views in its fourth week on Netflix, surpassing “Bad Influence,” which took the No. 2 spot on the list with 4.6 million views, and “Last Bullet,” which came in third place with 2.8 million views.
