Breaking a record with around 70 million views/ 'Adolescence' tops the list of Netflix's most-watched English series

The Teens has built on its huge success, topping Netflix's English TV series chart this week with 42 million views. Since its launch, the show has amassed 66.3 million views, making it the single most-watched series in the UK ever in its first two weeks, with 161,000,000 hours watched.

In second place on the English TV list this week was The Residence, the latest series from Shondaland, while The Electric State held on to the top spot on the English film list, with 22.5 million views. Over the weekend, Adolescence made British television history, becoming the first broadcast show to become the most-watched program of the week.

The drama has wowed audiences and critics since it debuted on Netflix earlier this month, with each episode filmed in a single continuous take. While the show is already tipped for a string of BAFTA nominations, figures released by ratings body BARB on Sunday showed the first episode was watched by 6.45 million people in its first week. That number makes it the biggest audience for any UK streaming show in a single week, beating the 6.3 million who watched Fool Me Once on Netflix last year.

The four-episode series follows the Miller family, whose lives are torn apart when their 13-year-old son Jamie is arrested for stabbing a classmate to death after being influenced by online misogyny. The series' protagonist Jamie Miller is played by Owen Cooper in his acting debut , while his father Eddie is played by Stephen Graham.

Top Boy legend Ashley Walters has been cast as DI Luke Bascombe and Erin Doherty plays psychiatrist Briony Ariston. After his devastating performance as schoolboy Jamie, Owen is expected to find success on the silver screen, and is being compared to a young Leonardo DiCaprio.

Meanwhile, Stephen Graham, who co-wrote the script, has described finding Owen as the 'biggest achievement' of the four-part series. Despite its huge success, Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne has insisted he won't be returning to Jamie's story, telling The News Agents podcast: I don't think so and I don't think Stephen does either. I think we've told the story we wanted to tell. We'd like to do another story with the one-shot template, maybe, and we're thinking about how we can do that, with Phil Barantini, our brilliant director. But no, I don't think it's about what happens next with Jamie. I think we've told as much of it as possible.

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