Samba TV has released research showing that in the United States when Queen Elizabeth II passed away, interest in the Netflix series The Crown increased by almost 600% compared to the following week. The Netflix hit chronicles the reigning monarch’s life and accomplishments throughout several decades. The three days of September 9-11 had the highest ratings in the United Kingdom. data from Whip Media shows a rise of almost 600% over the prior weekend. In France, the number of viewers climbed by a factor of three, and there were nearly as many watchers throughout the world.
These results come from data mined from TV Time, a TV and monitoring app owned by Whip Media with over 22 million registered users around the world. After a remarkable 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II passed away on September 8. Her death has been met with profound sadness in the United Kingdom, the United States, and across the world, as her reign was the longest in English history.
After a formal burial on September 19 at the King George VI Memorial Chapel in Windsor Castle, England will observe a 10-day period of mourning. The fifth season of The Crown, which will focus on the royal family’s lives in the mid-1990s and early-2000s, was set to begin filming this summer, but Netflix stated last week that it will suspend production in the wake of the Queen’s death. In a statement sent to CNN on Friday, the show’s creators said that production had been halted on “The Crown” out of respect.
On the day of Her Majesty The Queen’s funeral, filming will also be halted. Season 5 of the popular show will air in November, featuring Harry Potter actress Imelda Staunton in the title role. Elizabeth Debicki will play Princess Diana, Dominic West will play Prince Charles, and Jonathan Price will play King Philip. After five seasons, the programme was supposed to conclude, but it was just revealed that they’ve renewed it for a sixth. It’s possible that more current and contentious incidents will be left out of the sixth season in favour of the relationship between Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Season 5 of The Crown, which can be viewed on Netflix, will debut in November 2022.