‘Beckham’ scores for Netflix, becomes UK’s highest-rated TV premiere since ‘Harry & Meghan’

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BeckhamThe documentary, in which David and Victoria Beckham discuss their lives, achieved Netflix’s highest viewership of the year by a wide margin in the UK.

The Fisher Stevens-directed series began on October 4 and attracted 3.8 million viewers in the week ending October 8, according to Barb, Britain’s official television audience research institute.

The second episode of the series, produced by Beckham’s Studio 99 and Ventureland, also performed well, attracting almost 2.9 million viewers.

The numbers refer exclusively to people watching on television, meaning viewing on mobile devices is not included in the numbers.

The two Beckham The episodes were 18th and 39th respectively on Barb’s list of most watched UK programs in the week ending 8 October.

By comparison, BBC1 was the highest rated program of the week Be sure to come dancewhich was watched by 8.4 million viewers, a lead of nearly 5 million Beckham.

Despite that, Beckham has since become Netflix’s highest rated TV episode in the UK Harry and Meghan in December 2022. The hit series “Prince Harry and Meghan Markle” started with almost 4.5 million viewers.

Until 2023, Beckham Loss Luther: The fallen sun, which was previewed by 3M in March. It was before that too Enlightenment lessons Season 4 premiered and reached 2.75 million last month.

Beckham It also did well in the US, where Netflix says it took first place for the second week in a row with 11.6 million views from October 9-15.