Week 2 Audience No Issue for ‘3 Body Problem’ — Netflix Weekly Rankings for March 25-31

Netflix's '3 Body Problem'
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Netflix original series 3 Body Problem expanded its audience engagement by more than 41% to 115.6 million viewing hours in its second week on the global streaming platform, with account views also growing by more than 41% to 15.6 million, according Netflix's own weekly ranker

Executive producers or the series, adapted from writer Cixin Liu's eponymous award-winning sci-fi novel, have already started planning a second season, although Netflix hasn’t officially announced it yet. Series creators include David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who co-wrote HBO’s Game of Thrones.

The eight-episode 3 Body Problem stars a largely unknown cast as a group of top physicists confronting a strange other-worldly threat. The series currently scores a solid 78% on Rotten Tomatoes critics aggregation

Also read: Maybe They Should Have Called It the '3 Viewer Problem'? — Netflix Weekly Rankings for March 18-24

Globally, 3 Body Problem was the most-watched show on Netflix for the week of March 25-31. But it wasn't the most popular Netflix TV series in the U.S., according to Netflix. That distinction belonged to the three-part limited series Testament: The Story of Moses, which debuted March 27 and ranked No. 2 on Netflix's global ranker of English-language TV shows for March 25-31 with 57.4 million viewing hours and 13.5 million account views. 

Curiously, Testament only ranked No. 8 on the new weekly streaming rankers compiled by Penske Media Group’s Luminate and published by Variety. Measuring U.S. usage, Luminate said 3 Body Problem had more than seven times as much domestic audience engagement vs. Testament for the somewhat comparable time window of March 22-28 … which seems to bely Netflix's own tally of its own platform. 

Perhaps most of Testament's viewing came on Easter Sunday, which fell outside Luminate's measurement window? 

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On the international TV side of Netflix’s business, Korean melodrama Queen of Tears grew its audience again in its fourth week on the global platform, ranking No. 1 in the non-English-language TV category with 41.7 million viewing hours and 4.3 million account views.

Meanwhile, on the film side, the debut of South African assassin-themed action-thriller Heart of the Hunter garnered 19.7 million streaming hours and 11 million account views to finish atop the English-language movie rankings. 

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