Streaming services often drop seasons all at once - a trend that Netflix started with “House of Cards” and has continued with other tense dramas like “ Ozark” and “ Mindhunter.” “Bodyguard” also made a big splash when its six episodes arrived in bingeable form on Netflix in the United States, earning Richard Madden a Golden Globe for his lead performance.įor legacy networks with their own streaming services, like HBO, there’s evidence it may still pay to make people wait. streaming service Peacock later this year, it’s fair to say “Vigil” is also full of unexpected twists and turns.
In 2018, 14 million people watched the finale of “ Bodyguard,” a political thriller which unexpectedly lost a key character, according to data from PA, a news agency.Īnd the BBC’s latest offering, “Vigil,” a drama investigating a mysterious death on a nuclear submarine looks set to continue this trend, attracted double-digit-millions of viewers to its first episode, according to the BBC. This made it the most watched episode of British television drama of the 21st century so far, based on ratings for the first seven days of a show’s availability. Earlier this year, 15 million viewers watched the series finale of “Line of Duty,” a police procedural that killed off a central character early in its first season, and then another in the first episode of the second.
This attention partly comes from the knowledge that a show’s main characters could die at any moment. LONDON - Crime shows have been a popular British export for decades, but a recent batch of big budget, critically acclaimed BBC thrillers have drawn record weekly viewing figures here, keeping viewers transfixed in a state of constant, existential dread.
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