Within the first three months of the yr, three British originals – Adolescence, the knife crime drama starring Stephen Graham, Poisonous City, the poisonous waste drama starring Jodie Whittaker and Aimee Lou Wooden, and Harlan Coben’s Lacking You – attracted practically 200M views on Netflix.
Anne Mensah, the corporate’s UK content material chief, is a humble girl and never identified for crowing about her personal success.
However Netflix, in a letter to shareholders following its first quarter monetary outcomes, is blowing their very own trumpet about its efficiency within the nation of shopkeepers, in addition to the truth that it’s now producing in over 50 nations.
It famous that Adolescence obtained 124M views since launch, Lacking You scored 53M and Poisonous City, which was additionally written by Jack Thorne, one of many males behind Adolescence, obtained 14M views, numbers which have helped develop its share of TV time within the UK.
It grew from 8% within the first quarter of final yr to 9% in the identical interval in 2025. This was in comparison with 20% for the BBC and 13% for ITV. It’s additionally nicely above Disney+, which recorded a 2.9% share and Prime Video, which obtained 2.8%, in addition to most attention-grabbing above YouTube, which acquired a 7% share, in line with rankings company Barb.
That is as compared with the U.S. As an illustration, in January, Netflix had an 8.6% share of viewing in comparison with YouTube’s 10.8% share, in line with Nielsen.
“Now we have workplaces all over the world with native executives who’ve deep relationships with the inventive and enterprise communities. And now we have invested in manufacturing infrastructure to create top quality collection and movies. The UK is emblematic of our method,” Netflix famous in its letter.
The streamer added that it has invested over $6B within the UK over the past 5 years, together with a devoted manufacturing hub, that includes 20 sound phases at Shepperton Studios, 5 extra phases at Longcross Studios and three at Uxbridge.
It expects to be in manufacturing with greater than 100 titles throughout TV and movie this yr. This consists of Hostage, a political thriller starring Suranne Jones and Julie Delpy and Home of Guiness from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.
That is greater than double its output since Mensah joined in 2019, when the corporate had round 40 UK initiatives every year. It’s no shock that the previous Sky drama chief has been linked to the BBC’s vacant chief content material function.
As she mentioned final yr, “British tv has such a protracted historical past of manufacturing really good leisure and we’re eternally proud to be a part of this custom.”
