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Lady Whistledown has her title for tomorrow. If televisions and iPads existed during the Regency, that’s good.
Netflix tweeted Monday night that Bridgerton – its adaptation of the bestselling Julia Quinn novels, created for television by Chris Van Dusen and produced by Shondaland of Shonda Rhimes – is expected to be sampled by over 63 million households * in its first four weeks of release. If true, that would make the lavish and rrrribald! period drama Fifth largest * Netflix original series to date (behind The witcher Season 1, Strange things Season 3, Money heist Part 4 and King tiger).
Add to that the 44 million households that should sample Robert Rodriguez’s households We can be heroes movie (which just received a sequel order), and Netflix claims (without independent verification, it should be noted) its “biggest week of viewing between Christmas and New Years.”
*The numbers reported by Netflix are based on subscribers who watched at least two minutes of content.
The undoubted critical success and notoriety of pop culture Bridgerton, which debuted eight episodes on Christmas Day, comes on the heels of Netflix declaring a decisive failure with its much-acclaimed Thanksgiving release, The queen’s gambit, which was sampled by 62 million households in its first 28 days, making it “the streaming giant’s biggest scripted limited series to date.”
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