'Harry & Meghan' becomes Netflix's biggest-ever documentary debut

Netflix's documentary bid astir Britain's Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has go the streaming platform's biggest documentary debut yet.

"Harry & Meghan" racked up 81.55 cardinal viewing hours globally wrong its archetypal 4 days of release, Netflix said Tuesday.

That marks the "highest presumption hours of immoderate documentary bid successful a premiere week," the streaming elephantine said successful a property merchandise outlining its top-performing shows for the week ending December 11.

The archetypal 3 episodes of the highly anticipated six-part amusement were released Dec. 8, with the last 3 installments to travel Thursday.

The series, which Netflix billed arsenic an "unprecedented and in-depth" documentary, appeared successful the streamer's Top 10 TV database successful 85 countries, and ranked fig 1 successful the U.K.

Netflix did not instantly respond to CNBC's petition for comparable viewing figures for different documentary debuts.

However, Netflix's planetary viewing figures showed the documentary ranked arsenic the second-most watched English-language bid connected the level during the week, down Tim Burton's Addams Family play "Wednesday," which recorded 269.67 cardinal views.

By comparison, play 5 of "The Crown," present successful its 5th week of release, recorded 18.9 cardinal views implicit the week.

The archetypal 3 installments of "Harry & Meghan" enactment arsenic a emotion missive to the pair's high-profile relationship, revealing caller details of their archetypal instauration successful 2016 via a communal person on Snapchat, to their eventual determination to step down from the royal household successful 2020.

However, they were notable arsenic overmuch for what they excluded arsenic what they contained, with fewer hard questions asked and a deficiency of captious voices throughout.

Viewers whitethorn beryllium hoping for much juicy revelations successful the 2nd acceptable of episodes.

Still, the viewing grounds volition beryllium seen arsenic a boon for Harry and Meghan, arsenic they effort to forge a caller illustration extracurricular of the royal family.

"Harry & Meghan," which was directed by Oscar-nominated Liz Garbus, marks 1 of a bid of programs the Sussexes are producing nether a commercialized woody with Netflix.

Their accumulation house, Archewell Productions, is owed to merchandise different Netflix series, "Heart of Invictus," successful 2023.