Season 5 of BC-filmed romance Virgin River, starring Alexandra Breckinridge and Martin Henderson, ranked #9 in Netflix’s Top 10 TV Titles for the back half of 2023.
Virgin River season five (including two holiday specials) generated 331 million hours watched and 35.8 million views and all five Virgin River seasons totalled 69 million views in the back half of 2023 according to the newly released What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report, capturing viewership from July to December last year. Views are the total hours viewed divided by runtime.
Top 10 TV Titles in back half of 2023:
#1 One Piece with 71.6 million views #2 Dear Child with 52.5 million views; #3 Who is Erin Carter? 50.1 million views; #4 Lupin Part 3 with 49.7 million views; #5 The Witcher season 3 with 47.9 million views; #6 Sex Education season 4 with 46.3 million views; #7 Beckham with 43.9 million views; #8 CoComelon season 8 with 37.6 million views; #9 Virgin River season 5 with 35.8 million views; #10 The Lincoln Lawyer season 2 with 35.7 million views.
Alberta-filmed My Life With the Walter Boys made the list at #13 with 33.4 million views for its debut season even though it didn’t drop until December 2023, so we can expect it to see it in the Top TV titles of the first half of 2024.
BC-filmed Edgar Allen Poe mashup The Fall of the House of Usher also had a good showing on Netflix in the back half of 2023.
Released October 12th ahead of Halloween’s spooky season, The Fall of the House of Usher amassed 223 million hours watched and 27 million views.
Virgin River Season 5:
Virgin River follows Mel Monroe (Alexandra Breckenridge), a nurse and midwife who moves to the small California town from Los Angeles after her husband Mark dies. There she falls for restaurant/bar owner and former marine Jack Sheridan (Martin Henderson), but their relationship is complicated.
Season 5 showrunner: Patrick Sean Smith,
Season 5 cast:: Alexandra Breckenridge, Martin Henderson, Tim Matheson, Annette O’Toole, Colin Lawrence, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Zibby Allen, Sarah Dugdale, Marco Grazzini, Mark Ghanime ,Lauren Hammersley, Kai Bradbury, Kandyse McClure.
Others: Teryl Rothery, Nicola Cavendish, Gwynyth Walsh, Christina Jastrzembska, Stacey Farber, Jenny Cooper, Lucia Walters, Steve Bacic, Libby Osler, Keith MacKechnie, Barbara Pollard, Trevor Lerner, Ellie Harvie, Darcy Laurie, Sandy Robson, Lexa Doig, Chase Petriw, Emma Oliver, Michelle Addison, Miranda Edwards, Gabrielle Jacinto.
Virgin River is currently filming season 6 in BC and is expected to wrap at the end of this month.
My Life with the Walter Boys Season One:
Adapted from the Wattpad novel by Ali Novak, season one of My Life With the Walter Boys follows teen Jackie Howard (Nikki Rodriguez), who loses her entire family in a tragic accident. She’s forced to move from the busy streets of Manhattan to a small town in rural Colorado, where she goes to live with her new guardian… and very rowdy boys.
Jackie ends up torn between two Walter boys — the quiet and bookish Alex (Ashby Gentry) who’s a rodeo rider and the charismatic but troubled Cole (Noah LaLonde), whose dreams of a football scholarship are shattered by a ski injury.
Showunner: Melanie Halsall.
Cast: Niki Rodriguez, Ashby Gentry, Noah LaLonde, Marcus Blucas, Sarah Rafferty, Connor Stanhope, Johnny Link,, Corey Fogelmanis, Dean Petriw, Lennix James, Alix West Lefler, Isaac Arellanes,, Myles Perez, Zoë Soul, Alisha Newton, Jaylan Evans, Ashley Holliday Tavares, Moheb Jindran, Ellie O’Brien, Mya Lowe, Gabrielle Jacinto,, Nathaniel Arcand, Alex Quijano..
The Fall of the House of Usher:
In this wicked series based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, ruthless siblings Roderick (Bruce Greenwood) and Madeline Usher (Mary McDonnell) have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege, and power.
But past secrets start coming to light when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman (Carla Gugino) from their childhood.
Cast: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Mary McDonnell, Mark Hamill, Carl Lumley, Henry Thomas, Samantha Sloyan, T’nia Miller, Rahul Kohli, Kate Siegel, Sauriyan Sapkota, Zach Gilford, Katie Parker, Michael Trucco, Michael Goodwin, Crystal Balint, Kylegh Curran, Paola Nunez, Aya Furukawa, Matt Biedel, Daniel Jun, Ruth Codd, Robert Longstreet, Annabeth Gish, Igby Rigney, Willa Fitzgerald.
Top 10 Film Titles in the back half of 2023:
Dystopian thriller Leave the World Behind was Netflix’s most-watched film and the Top Title overall in the back half of 2023 with 121 million views; #2 Heart of Stone with 109.6 million views; #3 Leo with 96 million views; #4 Nowhere with 86.2 million views; #5 The Outlaws with 83.8 million views; #6 Hidden Strike with 73.3 million views; #7 Reptile with 73.1 million views; #8 The Killer with 67.8 million views; #9 Family Switch with 61.9 million views; #10 Boss Baby with 61.7 million views.