Netflix’s new K-drama Teach You A Lesson, which landed June 5, has also proven its popularity with an outsize performance over the last month<\/a>. Run Away and Man on Fire also made the Top 10 list with more than 40M views each.<\/p>\n In all, five of the Top 10 most-watched series in the first half of this year also premiered within that timeframe. That’s much different that the second half of last year, when seven of the Top 10 TV rankings were heavy-hitting returning series<\/a>.<\/p>\n Per the latest report, audiences watched 97 billion hours of content on Netflix in the first half of the year, marking the highest half-yearly viewing total since the streamer began regularly releasing these numbers. That’s a net positive for Netflix, even though it has struggled recently with retaining audiences for returning series<\/a>.<\/p>\n Even One Piece and The Night Agent, whose recent seasons both made the Top 10 for the first half of the year, were down in their opening weeks<\/a> compared to previous installments. Further illustrating Netflix’s inability to replicate the audience loyalty enjoyed by of some of its earlier hits, Stranger Things 5 is among the Top 5 most-watched series in the first half of the year with 56M views, more than almost any other series on the platform, even though the series finale dropped on New Year’s Eve.<\/p>\n Since January, Netflix has released new seasons of Running Point,\u00a0Beef,\u00a0A Man On the Inside, Nobody Wants This, The Four Seasons\u00a0and\u00a0A Good Girl’s Guide\u00a0to Murder, to name a few more that have slumped in comparison to previous seasons.<\/p>\n See the top TV series of the first half of 2026 below.<\/p>\n In other Netflix data news, the streamer also revealed on Thursday that it plans to move away from six-month reports \u2014 which it began releasing in 2023<\/a> \u2014 in favor of annual viewing snapshots, beginning Q1 2027. The company says this is part of its shift in focus to quality over quantity.<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Bernthal and Tessa Thompson led the way for TV on Netflix in the first half of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,1868,282],"class_list":["post-553389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-netflix","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/deadline.com\/af6dd37de9ce7b74f1b8e8d4d2b66bd5.jpeg\"\/)
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