EXCLUSIVE: With American Primeval, Eric Newman now has six Netflix hits under his belt.
The western miniseries was the most-watched TV series on the streamer last week with 14.3M views from January 13 to 19, up from 10.4M in the first few days post-debut. That’s the Narcos executive producer and showrunner’s sixth series to reach No. 1 on Netflix’s Global Top 10, following Griselda, Painkiller, The Watcher, True Story, and Narcos: Mexico Season 3.
Over the 18 months from January 2023 to July 2024, all of Newman’s Netflix projects have tallied a combined 400M global views. Viewing data for the second half of 2024 is not yet available, though Netflix should be releasing that soon via their biannual data dump.
So far, American Primeval has racked up a combined 24.7M views since debuting on January 9. It has gained plenty of steam to eventually help boost it onto Netflix’s most popular list, though it’ll still need 69.1M views to make that happen. It has 79 days left in its premiere window to do so.
Newman, who struck an overall deal with Netflix in 2018, began his collaboration at the streamer with Hemlock Grove, the second original series that Netflix commissioned. That was followed by the global hit Narcos, which Newman executive produced from the start. He became showrunner on Season 2.
To date, his series alone have made the Global Top 10 list for 26 collective weeks across 92 countries.
His next project, Zero Day, will debut on February 20. That limited series stars Robert De Niro as respected former U.S. President George Mullen, who, as head of the Zero Day Commission, is charged with finding the perpetrators of a devastating cyber attack that has caused chaos around the country and thousands of fatalities.
