The final return to the palace. The Crown is coming back for one more season — and filming got underway before season 5 even premiered.
15.11.2022 - 23:13 / deadline.com
The Crown’s season five has reigned supreme over Netflix’s English-language television charts.
The royal drama was watched for 107.39M hours over its first five days, claiming the number one spot.
The series, which was created by Peter Morgan, launched on November 9 and the charts count data between November 7 and 13.
The fictionalized drama series now stars Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II, Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip, Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret, Dominic West as Prince Charles and Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana.
These are decent numbers for the streamer, particularly in the fifth season of a show, and put it higher than the launch of Manifest’s fourth season, which recorded 57M hours watched last week, the 72M hours watched for From Scratch the week before and marginally ahead of the launch of season five of Cobra Kai, which reported 106.7M hours watched, admittedly with two more days of viewing.
It couldn’t, however, match the 196M hours watched of the debut of Dahmer: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story or the 125M hours watched of the first season of The Watcher.
The figures come after Netflix began reporting to British ratings group BARB, which highlighted that 1.1M viewers in the UK watched the first episode when it launched last week.
Produced by Sony’s Left Bank, The Crown has been taking something of a royal shellacking as it moves into more modern times.
Two former Prime Ministers have slammed the series with a spokesperson for Tony Blair, who was PM when Princess Diana died, calling fictionalized scenes “complete and utter rubbish”, while his predecessor John Major, who was charged with announcing the separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales in the Houses of Parliament in 1992,
The final return to the palace. The Crown is coming back for one more season — and filming got underway before season 5 even premiered.
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UK former premier Tony Blair has added his voice to those saying The Crown is using the fifth season to present events in the 1990s on screen as real, when in fact they have been invented.
Out with the old and in with the new is a now familiar part of “The Crown” and its rotating cast, serving as a reminder of how rich the existing British acting pool is with its slew of recognizable faces. This series can also make careers as Emma Corrin and Vaness Kirby were launched into the stratosphere after her breakout performance as the young Diana Spencer and Princess Margaret.
Lesley Manville "always thought" she was going to play Queen Elizabeth on 'The Crown. ' The 66-year-old star is the latest actress to take on the role of the late monarch's sister Princess Margaret - who died in 2002 at the age of 71 - in the Netflix biographical series but thought when she was asked to meet with creator Peter Morgan that she would be playing the Queen herself before the part went to Imelda Staunton. She said: "It’s funny.
SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of the fifth season of The Crown, which debuts all 10-episodes on Netflix on November 9