"Wednesday"
Nielsen: Netflix’s ‘Wednesday’ Debut Second-Highest All Time
December 21, 2022
Newly released data from Nielsen finds that “Wednesday” generated nearly 6 billion minutes consumed across its eight episodes through Nov. 27 — the second-best first-week performance by a Netflix original series, behind the “Stranger Things” season four debut, which tallied 7.2 billion minutes.
“Wednesday,” a Tim Burton-directed horror comedy based on The Adams Family’s daughter Wednesday (played by Jenna Ortega), debuted Nov. 23.
The series’ performance was enough to easily distance the third and final season debut of “Dead to Me,” with almost 1.5 billion minutes consumed across 30 episodes of the Christina Applegate/Linda Cardellini/James Marsden adult comedy.
Other content to break 1 billion minutes consumed included new series “1899,” with 1.1 billion across eight episodes; “The Crown,” with 1.1 billion minutes across 50 episodes, and original movie Slumberland, with 1 billion minutes.
| Rank | SVOD Provider | Program Name | No. of Episodes | Minutes Streamed (Millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Netflix | Wednesday | 8 | 5,988 |
| 2 | Netflix | Dead To Me | 30 | 1,464 |
| 3 | Netflix | 1899 | 8 | 1,109 |
| 4 | Netflix | The Crown | 50 | 1,109 |
| 5 | Netflix | Slumberland | 1 | 1,057 |
| 6 | Netflix | Manifest | 52 | 988 |
| 7 | Netflix | NCIS | 339 | 811 |
| 8 | Peacock | Yellowstone | 38 | 736 |
| 9 | Netflix | The Noel Diary | 1 | 707 |
| 10 | Netflix | Cocomelon | 18 | 702 |