Prime Video‘s Cross has pulled in a big worldwide audience in the three weeks since its premiere, the streamer says.
The crime drama, starring Aldis Hodge and based on James Patterson’s best-selling novels, has drawn 40 million viewers globally over its first 20 days, according to internal figures from Prime Video. All eight episodes of the show’s first season (it’s already been renewed for a second installment) premiered Nov. 14.
The 40 million worldwide viewers makes Cross the No. 3 premiere for a Prime Video series this year over a 20-day span. It trails only Fallout — which, according to the Amazon-owned streamer, had 65 million viewers in 16 days — and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, whose second season (three episodes of it, anyway) racked up 40 million viewers in its first 11 days.
Amazon also says the launch of Cross puts it in the top six of all Prime Video series over its first 20 days. The first publicly available third-party ratings data for the series should come next week with Nielsen figures for the United States in the week of Nov. 11-17.
The majority of the show’s viewers (about 55 percent) came from outside the United States; Amazon says Cross had “outsized performance” in Germany, the U.K., Brazil, Canada and Spain.
Along with Hodge, Cross stars Isaiah Mustafa, Juanita Jennings, Alona Tal, Samantha Walkes, Caleb Elijah, Melody Hurd, Jennifer Wigmore, Eloise Mumford, and Ryan Eggold.
Ben Watkins is the creator and showrunner of the series, which comes from Amazon MGM Studios, Paramount Television Studios (CBS Studios for future seasons) and Skydance Television. Watkins executive produces with Sam Ernst, Jim Dunn, and Craig Siebels; Patterson, Bill Robinson, and Patrick Santa for James Patterson Entertainment; and David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Bill Bost for Skydance Television.
Source: Hollywoodreporter
