After 17 weeks, Netflix’s Stranger Things has lost its clean-sweep of TV demand charts. The sci-fi series topped only the Australian digital originals with a difference of 28.33 points.
In New Zealand, the series was knocked from the top by The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power – the latest instalment in the Lord Of The Rings franchise. Developed by showrunners J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay for the streaming service Prime Video, the series is set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years before Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. In New Zealand, the new series came in 19.52 points above average and 20.53 points in Australia.
Additionally, Prime Video announced The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power gave the streaming service its largest ever premiere, attracting more than 25 million global viewers on the first day of the series release.
In its third week on screens, Disney + original, She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, has maintained its second spot in the Australian digital originals. Based on the Marvel Comics, the series follows Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany), a lawyer specialising in cases involving superhumans, who also becomes the green superhero, She-Hulk. The series came in 20.84 points above average in Australia and 15.72 points in New Zealand.
In overall TV shows, Game of Thrones spin-off House of the Dragon topped the New Zealand charts with 30.42 points, but was overtaken by its prequel, Game Of Thrones, in Australia, which came in with a difference of 35.67 points. In Australia, House Of The Dragon placed second with 32.77 points, followed by Stranger Things with 28.33 points.
Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale entered the charts with force, placing fourth in Australia’s digital originals with 17.88 points and sixth in New Zealand with 11.51 points above average. The dystopian series created by Bruce Miller is based on the 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood.
Additionally, The Orville placed fifth in Australia and seventh in New Zealand with 17.67 and 10.02 points, respectively.
