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Dear Child is a mystery crime drama series written and directed by Isabel Kleefeld. The Netflix series is based on an international bestselling novel Liebes Kind by Romy Hausmann. Dear Child revolves around a 13-year-old missing persons case which is reopened after an unknown woman is struck by a car in a German forest and the girl who accompanies her is being interviewed by the police. The Netflix series is a claustrophobic and dark experience with plenty of twists and turns. So, if you loved the thrilling mystery, intensely dark story, and compelling characters in Dear Child here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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The Sinner is a police procedural mystery crime thriller drama anthology series created by Derek Simonds. Based on the 1999 novel of...

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Before is a psychological thriller drama miniseries created by Sarah Thorp. The Apple TV+ series follows Eli, a recently widowed child psychologist who meets his next patient and soon figures out that the young boy has a haunting connection to his past. Their unconventional bond deepens as Eli tries to figure out the mystery behind the boy. Before stars Billy Crystal, Jacobi Jupe, Maria Dizzia, Ava Lalezarzadeh, Rosie Perez, and Judith Light. So, if you loved the intense story, psychologically thrilling mystery, and compelling characters in Before here are some similar shows you should check out next.

The Patient (Hulu) Credit – FX

The Patient is a psychological thriller miniseries created by Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg. The FX series follows Alan Strauss, a grieving therapist who is held prisoner by a patient who reveals himself to be a...

Morgen startet mit „Achtsam Morden“ ein Jahr nach „Liebes Kind“ die nächste Netflix Originals Serie aus dem Hause Constantin Film: Jan Ehlert, der neue Cco des Filmkonzerns, war von Anfang als Produzent mit an Bord. Ein Gespräch über die Leidenschaft für die richtigen Stoffe, rasante Marktveränderungen und die richtige Strategie.

Jan Ehlert, Cco Constantin Film, Geschäftsführer Constantin Television (Credit: Constantin Television)

Achtsamkeit! Klingt verrückt.

Jan Ehlert: Wir haben das wirklich gemacht! Tom Schilling, Regisseurin Martina Plura, meine Produktionskollegin Nina Viktoria Philipp und ich haben relativ kurz vor dem Dreh tatsächlich einen Achtsamkeits-Crashkurs durchlaufen, mit einer wunderbaren Achtsamkeits-Coachin in Berlin. Es ist… verblüffend. Ich kann es nur jedem ans Herz legen. Oder zumindest vielen.

Wie findet man einen Stoff wie „Achtsam Morden“ – vor allen anderen?

Jan Ehlert: In diesem Fall war es der gute Kontakt zu dem Literaturagenten von Karsten Dusse. Er hat uns auf „Achtsam Morden“ aufmerksam gemacht, als...

Oliver Berben, who took the reins of German production and distribution powerhouse Constantin Film on March 1, faces a German media landscape that is “changing radically and quickly,” he says. In response, he is adjusting the company’s approach to the business.

He welcomes the government’s proposed reform of the German Film Law, which will change the country’s production incentives, including for television, and will introduce an obligation on broadcasters and streamers to invest 20% of sales generated in Germany back into European productions, 70% of which would have to be in the German language.

“You have stagnating funding of public broadcasters. You have declining revenues for the private stations. The question is: Is the model functioning altogether? It is not, if we just keep on doing the same thing again and again.”

He adds, “Everything is changing, and these changes, by the way, are good. Us, as producers, we need...

Nach „Liebes Kind“ kommt mit „Achtsam Morden“ eine erneute Ausnahmeserie von Constantin Film zu Netflix. Nun gibt es einen ersten Trailer der pechschwarzen Krimigeschichte mit Tom Schilling in der Hauptrolle.

Schon bei der Netflix-Programmpräsentation „Next on Netflix“ im März fiel „Achtsam Morden“ auf als potenzielle Ausnahmeserie – nicht zuletzt, weil für die Hauptrolle in der von Martina Plura zusammen mit Max Zähle (sowie Boris Kunz) inszenierten Comedy-Crime-Saga mit Tom Schilling ein ausgemachter Kinostar in seiner nach „Ich und die anderen“ erst zweiten Serienhauptrolle zu sehen ist.

In den weiteren Rollen sieht man Emily Cox, Britta Hammelstein, Murathan Muslu, Peter Jordan, Pamuk Pilavci, Johannes Allmayer, Sascha Geršak, Marc Hosemann, Luca Maric.

Die von den Autoren Doron Wisotzky (auch Head-Autor), Anneke Janssen, Michael Kenda geschriebene Geschichte basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Bestseller von Karsten Dusse. Es handelt sich um eine Produktion der Constantin Film. Als Produzent:innen sind Jan Ehlert und Nina Viktoria Philipp an Bord.

Hinter „Liebes Kind“ zählt „Die Kaiserin“ zu den erfolgreichsten deutschen Netflix-Serien aller Zeiten. Nun ist klar, wann es mit den Folgen der zweiten Staffel von Sommerhaus Serien und Showrunnerin Katharina Eyssen bei dem Streamer weitergeht.

Für eine der erfolgreichsten deutschsprachigen Netflix-Serien aller Zeiten steht jetzt der Starttermin der zweiten Staffel fest: „Die Kaiserin“ von Sommerhaus Serien und Showrunnerin Katharina Eyssen mit Devrim Lingnau und Philip Froissant in den Hauptrollen kehrt weltweit am 22. November mit neuen Folgen auf den Streamingdienst zurück.

Die Lage am Hof von Kaiserin Elisabeth (Devrim Lingnau) und Kaiser Franz (Philip Froissant) ist angespannt. Erzherzogin Sophie (Melika Foroutan) erhöht den Druck auf das Kaiserpaar. Da auch das zweite Kind wieder ein Mädchen ist, muss die Familie nicht nur um den Fortbestand des Reiches, sondern auch um den ihrer Ehe kämpfen.

Neben den beliebten Hauptdarstellern kehren auch Johannes Nussbaum (Erzherzog Maximilian), Almila Bagriacik (Hofdame Leontine), Runa Greiner (Hofdame...

Constantin-Chef Oliver Berben gehört zu den neugewählten Directors der International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, die für die International Emmy Awards verantwortlich zeichnet.

Oliver Berben (Credit: Constantin/Mathias Bothor)

Bruce Paisner, Präsident und Geschäftsführer der International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, und der Nominierungsausschuss der für die International Emmys zuständigen Organisation, haben heute die neu gewählten Mitglieder verkündet. Oliver Berben, Vorstandsvorsitzender der Constantin Film Ag, hat dabei eine besondere Rolle erhalten: Er zählt künftig zu einem der neugewählten Directors der Academy, neben Victoriya Boklag, Rebecca Glashow und Fernando Szew (President/Head of Studio Fox Entertainment USA).

Die 1969 gegründete International Academy würdigt herausragende Leistungen in der Fernsehproduktion außerhalb der Vereinigten Staaten und verleiht jedes Jahr die International Emmy Awards. Die Wahl Oliver Berbens kommt in einem für ihn idealen Jahr: Die von Constantin Television produzierte Netflix-Hitserie „Liebes Kind“ gehört nämlich zu den glücklichen Nominierten!

Neu zum Mitgliederkreis gehört Stefanie Groiss Horowitz,...

Große Freude bei Constantin Television und Netflix: „Liebes Kind“ wurde in der Kategorie TV Movie/Mini-Series für einen International Emmy Award nominiert. Im Bereich Kids: Live-Action ist ebenfalls eine deutsche Produktion: „Gong! Mein spektRakuläres Leben“ von KiKa, produziert von eitelsonnenschein. Die Gewinner werden am 25. November verkündet.

Netflix-Hit „Liebes Kind“ (Credit: Netflix)

Der von Constantin Television (Friederich Oetker) produzierte Netflix-Hit „Liebes Kind“ wurde für einen International Emmy Award in der Kategorie TV Movie/Mini-Series nominiert. Netflix hat in der Nominiertenliste insgesamt einen Super-Score mit der starken Anzahl von zehn Stück.

Die Psychothriller-Serie „Liebes Kind“ konkurriert in der Kategorie TV Movie/Mini-Series mit dem brasilianischen Beitrag „Anderson Spider Silva“ von Paramount+, der japanischen Produktion „Deaf Voice: A Sign-Language“ der Japan Broadcasting Corporation und dem britischen Format „The Sixth Commandment“ von True Vision.

In der Kategorie „Kids: Live-Action“ wurde ebenfalls eine deutsche Produktion nominiert: „Gong! Mein spektRakuläres Leben“ vom Kinderkanal KiKa,...

Here in Germany at the inaugural Seriesly Berlin conference, execs from international TV sector debated market contraction, opportunities and the meaning behind “bonfires and fireworks.”

In a panel chair by Deadline’s Stewart Clarke at the Fotografiska arts center in Berlin’s Mitte, The Art of Coproduction founder Marc Lorber and Constantin Film Chief Content Officer Jan Ehlert outlined how shows could achieve success either by “burning brightly” for a short period of time or slowly gaining heat over several seasons or years.

“With the firework [shows], hopefully they burn big and bright, with lots of ‘ooh aah’ moments,” said Lorber. “Good or bad, people know about them. On the other hand, Bonfire shows smoulder and burn. They are sustainable and returnable, and people feel comfortable with them.”

Ehlert, whose company makes Netflix hit Liebes Kind (Dear Child), added there was “huge demand for all types of entertainment.”

“For a show to work globally,...

Am 23. Oktober wird in München der Blaue Panther – TV & Streaming Award verliehen. Jetzt wurden die drei in der Kategorie Fiktion nominierten Serien bekannt gegeben.

Der Blaue Panther – TV & Streaming Award wird am 23. Oktober verliehen (Credit: Medien Bayern GmbH)

Die Nominierungen für die beste fiktionale Serie beim Blauen Panther – TV & Streaming Award stehen fest.

Einer Pressemitteilung der Bayern Medien GmbH zufolge gehen die Ard-Serie „Die Zweiflers“ (Turbokultur in Koproduktion mit Ard Degeto und Hessichem Rundfunk), die Netflixserie „Liebes Kind“ (Constantin Film) und die Prime-Video-Serie „Maxton Hall“ (UFA Fiction) ins Rennen um die Auszeichnung, die zusammen mit den anderen Blauen Panthern am 23. Oktober in der Bwm Welt in München vergeben wird.

Medienminister Florian Herrmann betonte bei der Bekanntgabe der Seriennominierungen: „Als großer Serienfan bin ich von den heutigen Nominierungen für den Blauen Panther besonders begeistert. Die Jury hat drei hochwertige Serien ausgewählt, die die Zuschauer auf ganz unterschiedliche Art und Weise in ihren Bann ziehen.

Am 24. und 25. September wird in Köln zum 25. Mal der Deutsche Fernsehpreis verliehen. Heute wurden die Nominierungen bekannt gegeben.

Sechsmal für den Deutschen Fernsehpreis nominiert: „Die Zweiflers“ (Credit: Ard Degeto/Hr/Turbokultur/Elliott Kreyenberg)

Die Ard-Serie „Die Zweiflers“ (hier unsere Spot-Besprechung) hat sechs Nominierungen für den Deutschen Fernsehpreis erhalten und hat damit die meisten Chancen, am 24. und 25. September ausgezeichnet zu werden. Viermal nominiert wurde die Disney+-Serie „Deutsches Haus“, je drei Nominierungen gingen an die ZDFneo-Serie „Push“ und die Rtl+-Serie „Legend of Wacken“.

Über die meisten nominierten Produktionen in den Werk- und Programmkategorien – 30 an der Zahl – freut sich das Zdf; Prime Video vermeldet eine Rekordzahl von neun nominierten Produktionen.

Der Juryvorsitzende beim Deutschen Fernsehpreis, Wolf Bauer, erklärte anlässlich der Nominierungsbekanntgabe: „In diesem Jahr haben wir einen programmlichen Gipfel gesehen. Der verstärkte Wettbewerb der Anbieter – von den linearen klassischen Sendern bis hin zu Aggregatoren und Streaming-Plattformen – hat zu einer...

“Bridgerton,” “Bridgerton,” “Bridgerton.” That’s what Netflix’s Top 10 Most Popular TV (English) list looks like now.

Season 3 of the Shondaland period drama has now entered the streamer’s all-time list at number 10, booting “Baby Reindeer” and joining “Bridgerton” Seasons 1 and 2 on the leaderboard.

“Bridgerton” is the only series with three seasons on Netflix’s top 10 all-time list. “Stranger Things” is well-represented with Seasons 3 and 4, but its first two seasons came out before Netflix began to share viewership statistics.

Like many of its biggest shows, Netflix split “Bridgerton” Season 3 into two parts. Part 1 debuted on May 16; Part 2 launched on June 13.

Netflix’s top 10 is based on number of views over a TV season or a film’s first 91 days of availability — both “Bridgerton” Season 3 halves still have plenty of time to rack up more views in pursuit of the preceding seasons. “Baby Reindeer” has just a few days left before Netflix’s self-imposed cutoff.

Auch 2025 geht es mit der „Dünentod“-Krimireihe auf Rtl weiter. Die Dreharbeiten für zwei neue Fälle mit Hendrik Duryn und Pia Barucki von der MadeFor sind gerade beendet worden.

Das bewährte „Dünentod“-Doppel: Hendrik Duryn und Pia Barucki (Credit: Rtl / Gordon Muehle)

Nachdem auch die drei neuen „Dünentod“-Filme im Januar und Februar dieses Jahres mit zufriedenstellenden Rtl-Quoten das Publikum überzeugten, wurden gerade zwei weitere Folgen „Dünentod – Ein Nordsee-Krimi“ an der Nordseeküste, in Berlin und Brandenburg gedreht. In „Dünenblut“ und „Dünensturm“ (At), nach den gleichnamigen Romanvorlagen von Sven Koch, ermitteln auch dieses Mal wieder Hendrik Duryn, als Hauptkommissar Tjark Wolf, und Pia Barucki, als Hauptkommissarin Femke Folkmer.

Das Drehbuch zu „Dünenblut“ stammt von Gregor Erler, „Dünensturm“ schrieb Kai-Uwe Hasenheit. Regie führt bei beiden Folgen Stephan Rick. Es ist eine Produktion der MadeFor im Auftrag von Rtl. Produzent:innen sind Mirko Schulze, Nanni Erben und Gunnar Juncken. Executive Producer seitens Rtl...

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German Deep Dive

From ‘CSI: Berlin’ to nothing at all: The Munich Film Festival kicks off this morning, almost a year to the day that it emerged Sky Deutschland would be exiting the scripted original game in Germany, a decision that rocked the local production community. The tide has barely turned since, with Paramount+ and Starzplay (aka Lionsgate+) following suit and exiting drama and comedy production. “Paramount+ went from wanting CSI: Berlin to flatlined communications,” a well-known drama producer mused to Jesse and Stewart, who have spent plenty of time in Germany this past month. They’ve pieced together a comprehensive investigation spotlighting how the market has reacted to myriad setbacks, with potentially hundreds of projects back on the market and stuck at...

Today, Apple TV+ announced, in partnership with ZDFneo, the new fast-paced, eight-episode medical drama Krank Berlin from Violet Pictures and Real Film Berlin, co-created by former emergency room physician turned screenwriter Samuel Jefferson and Viktor Jakovleski.

Krank Berlin stars Haley Louise Jones as Dr. Parker and Slavko Popadić (Crooks), alongside an ensemble cast including Şafak Şengül (Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush), Aram Tafreshian (Dogs of Berlin), Samirah Breuer (The Gryphon), Bernhard Schütz (Barbarians), and Peter Lohmeyer (I don’t work here).

Managing a chaotic emergency room in the toughest and most overcrowded hospital in Berlin is no small task for the young Dr. Parker, who is seeking a fresh start in the big city after her private life implodes in Munich.

When she tries to implement necessary reforms, Parker is confronted with resistance from the underpaid, ill-equipped, and chronically fatigued hospital staff, who survive only with an indispensable dose of black humor.

When Comcast-owned Sky Deutschland cancelled its usual drama event at the Munich Film Festival at short notice last summer, it came as a surprise. That surprise quickly turned to shock and bitter disappointment when the pay-tv giant revealed it wasn’t simply nixing a networking bash, it was exiting the original drama business full stop.

More bad news followed as the local impact of Paramount Global reining in spend on original international drama kicked in – German shows were yanked off the streamer and projects in the works canned. This wasn’t that long after HBO Max had pulled out and Starz Play closing simply added to a stream of bad news. Apple, Disney+ and Prime Video remain in the German drama business, but commission in such low volume that it is the thinnest of silver linings for the vast majority of local scripted prodcos. The strategy at Netflix, easily...

Exclusive: Apple TV+ has boarded the fast-paced German medical drama Krank Berlin.

Apple has joined ZDFneo on the eight-part series, which is from Violet Pictures and Real Film Berlin and co-created by former British emergency room physician turned screenwriter Samuel Jefferson and Brimstone and Glory maker Viktor Jakovleski. Apple will take global rights, with pubcaster Zdf showing it in Germany.

The show stars Haley Louise Jones, who recently appeared in Netflix Germany breakout series Dear Child. She plays Dr. Parker, a young medic managing a a chaotic emergency room in the toughest and most overcrowded hospital in Berlin while seeking a fresh start after her private life implodes in Munich.

Trying to implement necessary reforms, she meets resistance from the underpaid, poorly equipped and chronically fatigued hospital staff who only survive with an indispensable dose of black humor. But in the face of an increasingly merciless healthcare system, the battered...

Thriller series were always of much interest for the audience, as suspenseful and twisted plots can fully immerse you until the very shocking finale. If you’re a big fan of such shows, we have a perfect list for your late-night binge-watching marathon.

Here are 5 mystery shows rated 80% or higher on Rt and available on Netflix.

5. Killing Eve (2018 - 2022) — 80% on Rt

First comes Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer’s notorious spy show that follows an intelligence investigator tasked to capture a psychopathic and extremely dangerous killer. Even though its fourth and the last season was poorly received by the fandom, we bet you’ll be glued to the screen until you binge the whole series.

4. The Diplomat (2023 - …) — 83% on Rt

Next comes a lesser-known yet must-see political thriller that focuses on the new United States ambassador to the United Kingdom while she’s trying to balance between quite a complicated...

Prince Harry’s Heart of Invictus docuseries wasn’t exactly a smashing success for Netflix. New viewership data reveals that relatively few people bothered to watch the show, which spotlights the stories of wounded veterans training for the 2022 Invictus Games.

‘Heart of Invictus’ was one of Netflix’s least-watched new shows

Heart of Invictus dropped on Netflix on August 30, 2023. The show from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Archewell Productions received a favorable response from critics, with an 86% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But the average Netflix subscriber wasn’t enthralled, and the series failed to crack the streamer’s Top 10 list of most-watched shows in the days after its release.

Now, Netflix has revealed more details about how many people watched Heart of Invictus, and it’s not pretty. The show racked up just 300,000 views in months following its late-August release, according to What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report,...

The streaming giant’s massive May 23 data trove for the second half of 2023 includes almost 16,000 series, movies and specials, which accounted for about 90 billion hours of viewing worldwide. The shows and movies below are … not a big part of that number, to say the least. Rather, they’re some of the higher-profile projects that, relatively speaking, almost no one watched. (For comparison’s sake, some of the biggest titles are also included).

For the six months ended December 2023, viewership at the low end …

Human Resources season 2

Views: 2.5M

Premiered June 9, 2023

Human Resources

The spinoff of Big Mouth had more worldwide views in its first three weeks of release in June (about 3.7 million) than it did in the entire six months between July and December. Netflix had previously announced that the show’s second season would be its last.

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Nach dem Gewinn des Bunte New Faces Award hat Anna Roller mit dem Dreh ihrer nächsten Regiearbeit begonnen. „Allegro Pastell“ ist eine Adaption des Bestsellers von Leif Randt und wird von Walker + Worm Film produziert.

Drehstart für „Allegro Pastell“: (hinten) Felix Pflieger (DoP), Anna Roller (Regie), Tobias Walker (Produzent), Leif Randt (Autor), Philipp Worm (Produzent); vorne: die Hauptdarsteller Sylvaine Faligant und Jannis Niewöhner (Credit: Nikolaus Brade / Dcm)

Im Interview mit Spot anlässlich ihres Gewinns des Bunte New Faces Award für „Dead Girls Dancing“ hatte Anna Roller bereits angekündigt, sich nur wenige Wochen vor Beginn des Drehs ihrer neuen Regiearbeit zu befinden, einer Adaption des Zeitgeist-Bestsellers „Allegro Pastell“ von Leif Randt, der nun auch das Drehbuch geschrieben hat. Am 28. Mai war es nun so weit, da fiel die erste Klappe zu der Produktion von Walker + Worm Film, die mit Jannis Niewöhner („Hagen“), Sylvaine Faligant („Oh Boy“), Martina Gedeck („Helgoland 513...

Benedict Cumberbatch’s new six-part series that follows a desperate father in search of his missing son is now dominating Netflix’s global chart, topping even the hyped third season of Bridgerton. It proves people’s never-ending interest in chilling crime stories.

Here are 5 miniseries that are similar to Eric and available for streaming on Netflix too.

1. Safe (2018)

This British miniseries is reminiscent of Eric more than others, as it also follows a father who has his child vanished from home. The show is led by the Dexter star, Michael C. Hall, who portrays a widowed surgeon whose daughter is missing.

Just like Eric, it blends a dark mystery story, full of intrigue and deception, with deep psychological drama of the protagonist, who devotes himself entirely to searching for his closest person.

2. The Snow Girl (2023)

Next comes a show that also focuses on the search for a missing child. Here...

While Netflix has expanded the type of programming it offers, most recently venturing into live sports and other events, co-ceo Ted Sarandos has indicated in a new interview that news is not for Netflix.

“We don’t do breaking news and that kind of thing, because I think there’s a lot of other outlets for it. People aren’t looking to us for that,” Sarandos told The New York Times in a wide-ranging interview that ran online Saturday when asked what’s not right for Netflix. Yet the executive — whose company a year ago launched an ad tier — in the same answer said he’s open to new things: “I don’t think that there’s a clean answer because the best version of something may work really well for Netflix but just hasn’t worked to date.”

Last week, after Netflix’s first in-person upfront presentation, CNN acknowledged...

Netflix Reveals One Piece Live Action as Most Successful Series of Late 2023 - Main Image

The show is no doubt a success, but a new report confirmed that the One Piece live-action is Netflix’s most successful series in the second half of 2023.

How successful? Well, the series is Netflix’s most-watched show between July and December 2023. Yes, that means it beat every other Netflix original series that year, showing just how many viewers watched it.

What’s also interesting is that the show had a noticeable effect on the anime series and films, with these also getting a major increase in viewership.

One Piece Live-Action Is Netflix’s Most-Watched Series in the Second Half of 2023

Netflix recently shared its second half of 2023 report, which featured a lot of interesting data. For instance, it revealed that Leave the World Behind was Netflix’s biggest movie in late 2023 with 121 million views.

Leave The World Behind was the most viewed feature film on Netflix over the second half of 2023, according to the streamer’s second biannual viewing report.

The Sam Esmail thriller with Julia Roberts generated 121m views over the period, becoming Netflix’s fifth most popular movie of all time. Gal Gadot crime thriller Heart Of Stone was the second most popular feature in the time frame, with 109.6m views, followed by animated family film Leo, Spanish-language thriller Nowhere (86.2m) and action comedy The Out-Laws (83.8m).

Netflix published its first biannual report late last year, taking a step towards greater data transparency.

Netflix, which for years had claimed that live sports did not factor into its business model, is now a major player in the field, recently snapping up Christmas NFL games. But before committing to established, conventional sports franchises like NFL football games and WWE Raw, the streamer tested the waters with stunt-y, made-for-tv sport events, starting with The Netflix Cup on Nov. 14, 2023.

According to Netflix’s second expansive viewership report released today, The Netflix Cup, a golf match featuring drivers and golfers from its docu series Formula 1: Drive to Survive and Full Swing, logged paltry 700,000 views in the second half of 2023.

Related: How German Miniseries ‘Dear Child’ Became Netflix’s Second Biggest Series Of Second Half Of 2023

Compare that to Netflix’s foray into live comedy, which was off to a hot start with the Match 2023 Chris Rock’s Selective Outrage special. It logged 36.2M hours in the first...

Remember when HBO licensed those originals to Netflix last year?

Well, it’s finally time to see if the move paid off for Netflix, as the streamer just released another round of data that encapsulates all viewing on the platform from July to December 2023. That includes shows like Insecure, Band of Brothers, The Pacific and the rest of the HBO originals that landed on Netflix last July.

So, how did they do?

It looks like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was the star of the show, as Ballers tallied 33.5M views across all five seasons — by far the highest of the bunch. Season 1 came in No. 139 on the overall list with just under 11M views alone. Considering the list includes thousands of titles, that’s pretty good.

Related: Netflix’s Live Sports Efforts Got To Very Modest Start With The Netflix Cup, Viewership Data Shows

Insecure generated the second-highest total of 14.4M views.

Netflix has released another huge batch of data about the time users spent with the service, and the top of its series list demonstrates how wide its global reach is.

The No. 1 series for the second half of 2023, as measured by Netflix’s view metric (total viewing hours divided by running time), was One Piece, a U.S.-Japanese co-production based on the enduringly popular manga and anime series. It amassed 71.6 million views following its Aug. 31 premiere. Four of the next five shows — German miniseries Dear Child, the third installment of Lupin from France, and British shows Who Is Erin Carter? and Sex Education season four — originated outside the United States, and the sixth, The Witcher, is based on novels by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski and films in Europe.

One Piece’s 71.6 million views equates to 541.9 million hours of viewing worldwide in the four months from its premiere date to...

Dear Child (Liebes Kind) is a German miniseries that is about to become even more high-profile outside of its local territory.

The limited series became the second most-watched title for Netflix over the second half of 2023 as it published its latest tranche of viewing data.

The series clocked up 253M hours viewed since its launch in September with 52.5M views, coming in just behind One Piece, Netflix’s high-profile anime remake.

In Netflix’s first tranche of data, released in December, Korean thriller The Glory was its most-watched international title with 623M hours viewed.

But what is Dear Child?

Based on a book, the series is about a mystery woman, who is discovered after a hit-and-run — and a long unsolved missing persons case is reopened.

A 13-year-old missing persons case is reopened with stunning and dramatic turns. When an unknown woman is struck by a car in a German forest at night,...

Netflix has just released another round of viewership data.

After pulling back the curtain on its data for the first time last year, the streamer quietly dropped the insights for the second half of 2023, publishing the second What We Watched report on Thursday without as much fanfare as the last round. As Netflix pointed out previously, the initiative aims to document the the full picture instead of the existing glimpses of only the top-performing programming.

According to the report, audiences watched 90B hours of Netflix content from July to December 2023, which is on par with the first half of the year.

The top-ranking title in the latest report appears to be the apocalyptic film Leave the World Behind with 121M views.

Related: ‘Young Sheldon’ Enjoys Second Life On Netflix; ‘Suits’ Still A Big Draw

The most-watched series is One Piece with more than half a billion hours viewed, translating to just under 72M total views.

Dystopian thriller “Leave the World Behind” was the most-watched film — and title overall — on Netflix globally in the second half of 2023, while anime-inspired live action series “One Piece” led on the TV side among individual series seasons.

The data comes from Netflix’s second edition of “What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report,” reflecting viewership on the streamer from July-December 2023 covering 99% of all viewing on Netflix. Subscribers across the world watched about 90 billion hours of Netflix in the second half of 2023, compared with 93 billion hours in the first half of the year.

Netflix released its first big data dump, covering the first half of 2023, last December. In the second report, released Thursday, the company has added runtime and views (total hours viewed divided by runtime) and separated films and TV series, syncing it up with its weekly Top 10 and Most Popular lists.

“Leave the World Behind,” Netflix’s No. 5 most popular movie of all time,...

When Jasmin Grass (Kim Riedle) is kidnapped in a parking garage in the German thriller series Dear Child,she finds herself locked in a small windowless apartment in the middle of a northern German forest. Her abductor — whose face we never see — dyes her dark hair blonde and calls her “Lena.” From that moment on, she’s forced to live according to his strict rules and look after “their” young children, Hannah (Naila Schuberth) and Jonathan (Sammy Schrein). After five months, Lena manages to flee from her prison in a desperate and harrowing escape — but soon realizes she can’t hide from her perpetrator.

Based on Romy Hausmann’s bestselling German novel of the same title (Liebes Kind), the riveting six-episode series Dear Child follows the story of Jasmin/Lena and the children, revealing how an unsolved missing persons case finally unfolds after 13 long years.

Learn more about star Kim...

Offering a glimpse of its highly anticipated new series “Krank Berlin,” Beta Film has bowed the first trailer for the gritty and fast-paced medical drama, revealing a bold and modern take on the genre.

The trailer drops as Beta Film unveils its MipTV line-up.

The eight-part series follows a team of young doctors who are underpaid, poorly equipped, chronically overtired and beset with an increasingly callous healthcare system.

Created by British writer Samuel Jefferson, himself a former emergency-room doctor, “Krank Berlin” is set in the toughest and most overcrowded hospital in the German capital.

Haley Louise Jones (“Dear Child”) stars as Zanna Parker, the new head of the chaotic emergency room, who has her work cut out for her as she struggles with her own personal dilemmas. When she tries to implement new reform measures, she is met with resistance from the staff, particularly rebellious emergency doctor Ben, played by...

Constantin Film and Big Light Productions has tapped Christian Schwochow, whose credits include “The Crown,” “Munich: The Edge of War” and “Bad Banks,” to direct its upcoming high-profile drama series “Nuremberg,” based on the Nuremberg Trials. The show will be written by Frank Spotnitz, whose credits include “The Man in the High Castle,” “Ransom” and “Leonardo.”

The series follows young survivors of World War II who go to work for Allied prosecutors trying Nazi criminals in Nuremberg, only to find their quest for justice undermined by secret efforts to build a new world order based on power, not principle.

Schwochow said: “The Nuremberg Trials marked a pivotal moment in human history, ushering in a new age of responsibility and justice. This is a story of humanity grappling with its deepest shadows. Its relevance has never been greater, and I am filled with a humble sense of duty to tell this story faithfully.

While at Series Mania Festival, Larry Tanz, Netflix’s VP of Emea Content, unveiled ambitious new shows commissioned from France and the Netherlands, including an untitled thriller series starring Isabelle Adjani, and “Amsterdam Empire,” a Dutch crime series starring and executive produced by Famke Janssen.

The untitled French thriller series revolves around a young mother on the run finds an unexpected opportunity to bounce back by becoming a picker in a prestigious flower farm in Provence. But the mysterious death of the family patriarch of the company casts her under the spotlight as the prime suspect. As she grapples with the mounting accusations, she uncovers a shocking revelation – she’s the unexpected beneficiary of the late patriarch’s estate, unearthing her deeply-rooted connections to this affluent lineage.

The series is created by Nils Antoine Sambuc and will be directed by Marie Jardillier. Itinéraire Productions, a Ugc company, is producing.

Directed by Jonas Govaerts,...

While medical dramas have long been a favorite staple on German TV, a new series helmed by Alex Schaad, director of the award-winning fantasy romance “Skin Deep,” and penned by British writer Samuel Jefferson looks set to give the genre a bold, modern take.

“Krank Berlin” is an eight-part series that follows a young team of doctors in the toughest and most overcrowded medical facility in the city. Underpaid, poorly equipped, chronically overtired and beset with an increasingly callous healthcare system, the doctors nevertheless cope with dark humor, although some turn to more extreme measures.

Produced by Real Film Berlin and Violet Pictures for ZDFneo and based on an idea by creative producer and co-creator Viktor Jakovleski, “Krank Berlin” stars Haley Louise Jones (“Dear Child”) as Zanna Parker, the hospital’s new chief doctor, whose reform measures are immediately met with resistance from the staff, particularly anarchist emergency doctor Ben,...

Industry executives, creatives and international buyers came together to preview an exclusive selection of upcoming high-end German series at the Up Next: Germany showcase at the Berlinale Series Market, the dedicated serial content arm of the EFM running between Feb. 19-21.

Four projects were selected for the showcase: Dystopian drama “A Better Place” imagines the aftermath of a revolutionary state-led program that eradicates all German prisons. Directors include Anne Zohra Berrached and “Capernaum” editor Konstantin Brock. Studiocanal TV handles world sales on the French-German-Austrian co-production.

“Young Berlusconi” is a three-party documentary trailing the early stages of Silvio Berlusconi’s career and his pivotal role in revolutionizing commercial television in Italy and across Europe. “Goodbye Darling, I’m Off to Fight” director Simone Manetti helms the series, with Arte on board as the German broadcaster and Mediawan handling world sales.

ZDFneo brought two series to the event: “Love Sucks,” an unconventional...

Beta Film has boarded ZDFneo’s new medical drama series “Krank Berlin,” set in the toughest and most overcrowded hospital in the German capital.

Created by former British emergency room doctor turned screenwriter Samuel Jefferson, “Krank Berlin” will be part of the Berlinale Series Market showcase Up Next: Germany, which presents an exclusive selection of the country’s upcoming high-end series to international buyers at the EFM.

Set against the backdrop of the vibrant, fast-paced and multicultural Southside districts of Neukölln and Kreuzberg, the series stars Haley Louise Jones as Dr. Parker, the new head of the ever chaotic emergency room. Managing the challenging environment is no small task for the young physician, who is seeking a fresh start in the big city after her private life implodes in Munich.

When she tries to implement necessary reforms, Parker is confronted with resistance from the hospital staff. The motley crew of underpaid,...

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It’s time for another slate preview, and today we’ll look through all the upcoming German-language movies and series we know are in development at Netflix for release in 2024 and beyond.

2023 was a big year for new German-language Netflix Originals, with a dozen releases in total. Dear Child was perhaps the biggest, spending six weeks in the global top 10s in total. As a reminder, all the new German titles included:

1899 (Multilingual) Big Mäck: Gangsters and Gold Blood & Gold Cyberbunker: The Criminal Underworld Dear Child Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate Hard Feelings Making All Quiet on the Western Front Paradise Sleeping Dog Till Murder Do Us Part: Soering vs. Haysom Too Hot to Handle: Germany Woman of the Dead

This list is everything currently announced and Netflix De (or Netflix Europe) has yet to put out an...

Veteran international film executive Martin Moszkowicz will step down as chairman of the executive board of German mini-major Constantin Film after his current contract expires early next year. Deputy chairman Oliver Berben will take over the role.

Moszkowicz, who has overseen the production of the Resident Evil and Mortal Instruments franchises at Constantin will stay on as a producer with the Munich-based outfit after his contract as chairman runs out on Feb. 29, 2024. Moszkowicz has been part of Constantin’s management since 1990 and took over as chairman in 2014.

One of the most important figures in the European film scene, Moszkowicz has helped build up the company into a local giant — with such blockbuster German franchises as the Fack Ju Goethe trilogy of high school comedies — and a major international player, producing English-language titles including video game adaptation Monster Hunter, the family feature Black Beauty and the Mads Mikkelsen action thriller Polar.

Veteran exec will be replaced by deputy chairman Oliver Berben.

Veteran German producer Martin Moszkowicz is to step down as chairman of Constantin Film.

In a statement today, Constantin said that Moszkowicz will let his contract expire as planned and at his own request on February 29, 2024 and will continue to work as a producer for Constantin Film from March 1.

Constantin has appointed deputy chairman, Oliver Berben, to be chairman of the company from March 1, 2024.

Moszkowicz has been part of the Constantin management team since 1990, and is responsible for the company’s film business, including worldwide production and distribution, world sales,...

Respected German industry veteran Martin Moszkowicz is stepping down as chairman of Resident Evil producer Constantin Film.

The independent film and TV production company announced that Moszkowicz will let his contract expire as planned and at his own request on February 29, 2024. He will continue to work as a producer for Constantin Film from March 1, 2024.

Current Deputy Chairman Oliver Berben has been appointed as his replacement in the chairman role with effect as of March 1 2024. In other board news, Hanns Beese has extended his contract.

“We are very grateful to Martin Moszkowicz for his many years of professional and loyal leadership and cooperation. Under his guidance, Constantin Film has developed sustainably into one of the most successful independent film and television production companies in Europe,” said Bernhard Burgener, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Constantin Film.

“We wish him the very best for his future and...

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“Beckham” has officially been defeated — the Netflix miniseries, not the soccer star. “The Fall of the House of Usher” moved from second place to first on Netflix’s Top 10 English-language TV list Tuesday.

This shift comes a week ahead of Halloween, fitting for the spooky miniseries based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe. The series from Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy secured 7.9 million views in its second week. With those numbers, it beat out last week’s reigning champion “Beckham,” which secured 6.9 million views.

Also on the English-language Top 10 list were the U.K. limited series “Bodies” in the No. 3 spot with 5.5 million views, the fantasy series “I Woke Up a Vampire” in the No. 4 spot with 3.4 million views and Season 4 of the comedy “Sex Education” in the No.

After a week in second place, Suits returned to the top of the streaming charts, extending its record run as the No. 1 overall title in Nielsen’s weekly rankings. Netflix’s Sex Education also scored well for the week of its final season premiere, and a pair of HBO series joined the rankings after their Netflix debuts.

Suits drew 1.79 billion minutes of viewing on Netflix and Peacock in the United States for the week of Sept. 18-24 — marking its 13th week as the overall No. 1 in the rankings and extending its own record. In the 14 weeks since it first made the rankings, the legal drama has racked up 40.55 billion minutes of viewing — more than 9 billion minutes more than the second-place show for 2023, Bluey on Disney+ (the kids’ favorite had 856 million minutes of viewing for the week).

The series that dethroned Suits a week earlier, Virgin River, posted a strong 1.24 billion minutes of watch time,...

Netflix’s Virgin River held steady at No. 1 on Nielsen’s latest U.S. ranking of streaming originals, by amassing 1.24 billion minutes viewed across 52 total episodes during the week of Sept. 18.

With the release of the first half of its farewell run, Netflix’s Sex Education placed a distant second, with 634 million minutes viewed across 32 episodes. It was followed by Disney+’s yet-to-be-renewed Ahsoka (rising one spot with 570 million minutes/six available episodes), Netflix’s Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal (563 million minutes/six episodes) and Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time (531 million minutes/14 available episodes).

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Suits‘ three-month stranglehold on the top of the Nielsen streaming charts has come to an end.

Netflix’s Virgin River moved ahead of Suits and claimed the No. 1 overall spot for the week of Sept. 11-17. The drama, whose fifth season premiered Sept. 7, improved by 7 percent from the previous week with 2.05 billion minutes of viewing. Suits, meanwhile, slipped by 19.5 percent to a still very strong 1.9 billion minutes and was second overall. The former USA Network series had spent the previous 12 weeks at No. 1.

The Morning Show became the third Apple TV+ series (after Ted Lasso and Hijack) to make the streaming rankings. It finished eighth among original series for the week of its season three premiere with 350 million minutes of viewing. Netflix’s German thriller Dear Child moved up to second among originals with 720 million minutes.

On the movie charts, Elemental scored a big streaming debut on Disney+ with 1.73 billion minutes of viewing.

After 12 weeks on top, “Suits” has finally fallen — but not too far.

The USA Network procedural has concluded a summer-long reign as the most-watched streaming title, which began when Netflix acquired it in June — though Peacock had already been streaming the series. With a still-whopping 1.9 billion watched, “Suits” took second place on Nielsen’s weekly streaming rankings for Sept. 11-17.

Now, “Virgin River” sits in the spot that belonged to “Suits” for so long. The Netflix drama was watched for 2.1 billion minutes during this viewing window, the first full week of availability for Season 5 Part 1. This marks a jump from last week, when the series landed at No. 2 with 1.9 billion minutes.

With 1.7 billion minutes watched, the No. 3 spot went to “Elemental,” the Pixar film that hit theaters in June and debuted on Disney+ during this viewing window with five days to spare. It was followed by “Bluey,” another children’s title.

Suits finally fell from grace.

For the first time in 12 weeks (and after breaking another record the week before), the USA Network legal drama was bumped from its top spot on the Nielsen streaming charts from September 11-17.

Don’t get it twisted, Suits still racked up 1.9 billion viewing minutes and took second place during this interval across Netflix and Peacock — which is icing on the cake for NBCUniversal, as the studio now appears to be eyeing an expansion of the Suits universe — but it was heavyweight Virgin River that came out on top.

The Netflix original hit the Nielsen charts last week at No. 2, following the debut of Season 5. With a full week of availability on the streaming platform, the latest installment helped boost Virgin River to an impressive 2.1 billion minutes viewed.

That, of course, is across all 52 episodes, since Nielsen doesn’t differentiate its viewing metrics by season.

When all was said and done, it was quaint li’l Virgin River that ended sharp-dressed Suits‘ reign atop Nielsen’s overall U.S. ranking of streaming programs.

For the week of Sept. 11, Netflix’s Virgin River amassed 2.05 billion minutes viewed across 52 episodes, earning it the No. 1 spot on Nielsen’s overall streaming chart (which includes movies, acquired series and such).

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“Beckham” is leading Netflix’s Top 10 English language TV list after a clip from the docuseries went viral over the weekend.

The aforementioned clip shows David Beckham questioning his wife, Victoria Beckham, over her claims she grew up working class. Not only has the clip made a sizable impression on social media, but it seems as though the show it’s from has been popular as well. The docuseries topped Netflix’s English language list with 12.4 million views during its first week.

The four-episode limited series was then followed by Season 4 of “Sex Education,” which accounted for 6.6 million views, and Season 5 of “Love Is Blind,” which brought in 3.7 million views. “One Piece” also appeared on the list for its sixth week in a row, nabbing the fourth spot as well as 2.5 million views.

That was then followed by Season 1 of the UFO docuseries “Encounters” (2 million views), Season 5 of “Virgin River...