'Bridgerton' Season 2 ranks as Netflix's third most popular season ever for an English-language show

Los Angeles, April 13

Period drama series ‘Bridgerton’ Season 2 has landed the title of Netflix’s third-most popular English-language TV series, a list that is calculated based on shows’ first 28 days on the streaming service, in just 17 days.

As per Netflix’s newly released Top 10 data for April 4-10, “The series had 115.75 million hours viewed on the English TV list, appearing in the Top 10 in 91 countries, making it the most viewed title for the third week in a row.

The season also entered the Most Popular list at #3 with 560.50 million hours viewed.

Shondaland now holds three spots on the Most Popular list with Bridgerton (Seasons 1 & 2) and Inventing Anna, reports ‘Variety’.

For the weekly rankings, ‘Bridgerton’ Season 2, which comes from show runner Chris Van Dusen and executive producer Shonda Rhimes, easily topped all other English-language TV series again with 115.7 million hours viewed between April 4-10.

In a very distant second place was the new dating series ‘The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On’ (43.7 million hours) and third was the first season of ‘Bridgerton’ (35.8 million hours). At No. 4 was recently dropped limited series ‘Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story’ (17.7 million hours) and coming in fifth was ‘Inventing Anna’ (17.3 million hours).

A ‘Better Call Saul’ fans catching up on Season 5 ahead of the series’ Season 6 premiere this month made it the sixth-most watched English-language TV title of the week (15 million hours). The rest of the Top 10 included, in order, ‘Is It Cake?’ Season 1, ‘Super Pupz’ Season 1, ‘The Last Kingdom’ Season 5 and ‘CoComelon’ Season 5.

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