{"id":767310,"date":"2026-09-11T13:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767310\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T13:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:58:10","slug":"the-gentlemen-season-2-loses-half-a-million-viewers-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767310\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Gentlemen&#8217; Season 2 Loses Half A Million Viewers In The UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe blaze of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/meghan-markle\/\" id=\"auto-tag_meghan-markle\" data-tag=\"meghan-markle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meghan Markle<\/a>-shaped publicity around <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-gentlemen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-gentlemen\" data-tag=\"the-gentlemen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Gentlemen<\/a> appears to have done little for the show\u2019s UK ratings, according to official figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSeason 2 of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/guy-ritchie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_guy-ritchie\" data-tag=\"guy-ritchie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guy Ritchie<\/a>\u2018s glossy crime drama premiered on September 3 on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> and, after seven days of streaming, the first episode was watched by 3 million British viewers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Gentlemen\u2018s viewing figures dropped around 15% from Season 1\u2019s debut episode, which was streamed by an audience of 3.5 million in March 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe ratings were supplied by Overnights.tv via Barb, the UK\u2019s official TV audience body. The figures differ from Netflix\u2019s data, which measures views rather than viewers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDespite the differing data points, the downward decline in Netflix views was similar. <a data-id=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/09\/the-gentleman-season-2-premiere-viewership-netflix-top-10-1237071272\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/09\/the-gentleman-season-2-premiere-viewership-netflix-top-10-1237071272\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline\u2019s Katie Campione reported<\/a> that The Gentlemen scored 6.7 million streams in its first four days of availability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThat put it at No. 3 on Netflix\u2019s English TV list from August 31 to September 6, but the series is facing nearly a 50% audience decline in its opening weekend versus Season 1\u2019s premiere viewership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThis trend is not unique to The Gentlemen. Many of the streamer\u2019s continuing series have not been able to attract the same audience as Season 1, including huge hits like Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Gentlemen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/08\/the-gentlemen-renewed-season-3-meghan-markle-s2-trailer-1237048820\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has already been renewed for a third season<\/a> amid wild speculation about Markle joining the cast. The Duchess\u2019 arrival has not been confirmed or denied by Netflix and The Gentlemen team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Gentlemen stars Theo James as Eddie Horniman, who unexpectedly inherits his father\u2019s sizeable country estate \u2013 only to discover it\u2019s part of a cannabis empire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The blaze of Meghan Markle-shaped publicity around The Gentlemen appears to have done little for the show\u2019s UK&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,127399,100,392,141773,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-767310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-guy-ritchie","tag-meghan-markle","tag-netflix","tag-the-gentlemen","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}