Skyscraper Live, a stream in which Alex Honnold freely climbs one of the world’s tallest buildings solo, has reached 6.2 million views on Netflix.
The climb, which took place at Taiwan’s Taipei 101 Tower, was originally scheduled to be broadcast on Friday, January 23, but was postponed to the following evening due to concerns about bad weather. (Due to time zone differences, the climb was postponed from Saturday morning to Sunday morning in Taiwan.) As a result, the broadcast only lasted for one day, from Saturday night to Sunday night, and was the most watched TV show on Netflix’s English TV Top 10 from January 19th to 25th, ranking No. 3 for the week.
In an interview with Variety after the climb, Honnold said it wasn’t the climb or the weather that caused his stress.
“Climbing is always at the mercy of nature,” he said. “When it comes to climbing, you are always subject to the vagaries of the situation: Is it too hot, too cold, windy, raining? My whole climbing life is always dictated by the weather and nature. So yesterday was not much different. The only reason I was so stressed out was , because it’s supposed to be a live broadcast. The idea of pushing this into a day was, “Hey, I don’t know how many crew members we have here, but,” there are a lot of them, so we have to change all the flights today, and we have to change all the hotels. ”
“His & Hers” and “Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials” ranked first and second again, with the former receiving 17.2 million weekly views and the latter 8.7 million. Other English-language shows in the top 10 this week included “Finding Her Edge,” which was No. 4 with 5.5 million views; The comedy series “Free Bart,” written by Bert Kreischer, also debuted on the top 10 list, coming in at No. 8 with 3.2 million views.
In the English movie chart, The Rip, starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, once again topped the chart, but it was only a slight drop from its first week on the chart, with 40.4 million views this week compared to 41.6 million in the first three days. Elsewhere on the movie chart, James Bond films No Time to Die and Specter came in at No. 3 and No. 7, respectively. This comes shortly after the Bond movie library became available to stream on Netflix on January 15th.
Check out the Netflix Top 10 from January 19th to 25th below. English shows and movies come first, followed by non-English shows and movies.
