{"id":589472,"date":"2026-07-16T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/589472\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T23:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:00:17","slug":"his-hers-leads-tv-viewing-on-netflix-in-first-half-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/589472\/","title":{"rendered":"‘His & Hers’ Leads TV Viewing On Netflix In First Half 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJon Bernthal and Tessa Thompson led the way for TV on Netflix<\/a> in the first half of the year.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pair\u2019s crime thriller His & Hers reached 104 million views globally from its premiere date on January 8 through the end of June, making it the most-watched show in H1 2026, according to the streamer\u2019s biannual What We Watched<\/a> report released Thursday.<\/p>\n

\n\tBesides Season 4 of Bridgerton, nothing else on the service even came close to racking up that large of an audience. The latest installment of Shondaland romance series amassed 100M views from launch on January 29 through the end of June, putting it in second place for TV in the first half of the year. <\/p>\n

\n\tAnother newcomer, Harlan Coben\u2019s I Will Find You, took third place with 64M views, which is impressive considering the series just arrived June 18. As Deadline reported earlier this week, that series is on track to become one of Netflix\u2019s most popular titles of all time<\/a> if it keeps up this performance. When factoring in July viewing, I Will Find You is already at over 85M views in under 30 days, making it a strong contender for the Top 10 Most Popular English Series list which once featured another Coben adaptation,\u00a0Fool Me Once.<\/p>\n

\n\tNetflix\u2019s new K-drama Teach You A Lesson, which landed June 5, has also proven its popularity with an outsize performance over the last month<\/a>. Run Away and Man on Fire also made the Top 10 list with more than 40M views each.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn all, five of the Top 10 most-watched series in the first half of this year also premiered within that timeframe. That\u2019s much different that the second half of last year, when seven of the Top 10 TV rankings were heavy-hitting returning series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tPer the latest report, audiences watched 97 billion hours of content on Netflix in the first half of the year, marking the highest half-yearly viewing total since the streamer began regularly releasing these numbers. That\u2019s a net positive for Netflix, even though it has struggled recently with retaining audiences for returning series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tEven One Piece and The Night Agent, whose recent seasons both made the Top 10 for the first half of the year, were down in their opening weeks<\/a> compared to previous installments. Further illustrating Netflix\u2019s inability to replicate the audience loyalty enjoyed by of some of its earlier hits, Stranger Things 5 is among the Top 5 most-watched series in the first half of the year with 56M views, more than almost any other series on the platform, even though the series finale dropped on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince January, Netflix has released new seasons of Running Point,\u00a0Beef,\u00a0A Man On the Inside, Nobody Wants This, The Four Seasons\u00a0and\u00a0A Good Girl\u2019s Guide\u00a0to Murder, to name a few more that have slumped in comparison to previous seasons.<\/p>\n

\n\tSee the top TV series of the first half of 2026 below.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn other Netflix data news, the streamer also revealed on Thursday that it plans to move away from six-month reports \u2014 which it began releasing in 2023<\/a> \u2014 in favor of annual viewing snapshots, beginning Q1 2027. The company says this is part of its shift in focus to quality over quantity.<\/p>\n

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