{"id":637690,"date":"2026-04-29T04:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637690\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T04:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:28:10","slug":"running-point-beef-return-to-netflix-with-middling-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637690\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Running Point’ & ‘Beef’ Return To Netflix With Middling Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTwo of Netflix<\/a>\u2018s star series returned this month, but audiences have been slow to catch on. Both Beef<\/a> and Running Point<\/a> both debuted their second seasons over the past two weeks or so to pretty middling results.<\/p>\n

\n\tBeef, which debuted on April 16, managed 4.1M views in its first full week on the streamer, boosting it to No. 3 on the global English TV Top 10 from April 20 to 26. That\u2019s up 70% from its debut weekend, signaling that Season 2 is at least generating a little bit of momentum, but the raw numbers aren\u2019t looking great.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeason 2 launched to just over 2M views in its first four days, down nearly 60% from Season 1\u2019s premiere weekend, to land at No. 7 on the weekly rankings.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first season debuted to roughly 5.8M views in its first few days and peaked the next week with 12M views, so there\u2019s a clear and significant audience drop off between seasons that the series is unlikely to completely close the gap on \u2014 even if Season 2 has in fact captured some momentum.<\/p>\n

\n\tRunning Point is not faring much better. Season 2 put up 5.3M views in its opening weekend, down 43% from the 9.3M views that Season 1 managed in the same timeframe. The second season\u2019s performance was still enough to get it to second place on the English TV list, but it was far below the leader, a British psychological thriller called Unchosen (which got 10.4M views). <\/p>\n

These are not isolated instances and, in fact, many of Netflix\u2019s popular series have been struggling more and more to retain audiences across seasons. Bridgerton\u2018s audience declined for Season 4<\/a>. The Witcher also didn\u2019t generate much buzz upon its recent return<\/a>, and Nobody Wants This saw a much smaller but still notable audience declin<\/a>e for its second season as well. The Night Agent also struggled to replicate the success of earlier installments when Season 3 lost 40% of its Season 2 opening audience<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tSmall audience declines are expected season-over-season for most series across both network TV and streaming, and anything under a 20% reduction is unlikely to sound any alarms over at Netflix. A 40-60% decline, though, is another story. Neither Beef nor Running Point have been renewed for a Season 3 yet. <\/p>\n

Speaking of renewals, Stranger Things: Tales From \u201985 did manage to score a renewal on Tuesday coming off its first weekend on the streamer. The animated spinoff took home 2.8M views and landed at No. 7 on the English TV list. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of Netflix\u2018s star series returned this month, but audiences have been slow to catch on. Both Beef…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,8962,134,435,239868,427,2657],"class_list":["post-637690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beef","tag-entertainment","tag-netflix","tag-running-point","tag-tv","tag-tv-ratings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}