It’s a mixed bag of winners in the TV demand charts this past week, with a different program topping each chart. For the first time in 17 weeks, Stranger Things has been completely knocked off the top, placing second in Australia’s digital originals with 25.9 points above the market average.
In Australia’s digital originals, Cobra Kai has taken the top spot with a difference of 26.7 points from the market average. The series, which just released its fifth season on Netflix, is a spin-off sequel series to the original 1984 movie The Karate Kid. Right on the heels of the new season release, Sony Columbia Pictures has announced a new theatrical Karate Kid film to be released in 2024.
Topping the New Zealand digital originals is the latest instalment in the Lord Of The Rings franchise, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power . 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 18.3 points above average and 19.4 points in Australia.
Over on Australia’s overall TV shows, Game Of Thrones topped the chart with 35.5 times more in demand than its competitors. House Of The Dragon followed closely behind with 32.1 points above average.
New Zealand’s overall shows had a similar result, with House Of The Dragon coming first (29.7 points), followed by Game of Thrones (25.2 points). Better Call Saul clocked third, with a difference of 19.2.
In its second week, Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale has maintained momentum, moving up to third in Australia and New Zealand’s digital originals. The dystopian series created by Bruce Miller is based on the 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood.
In its fourth week on screens, Disney + original, She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, has fallen to fifth 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.
