IF magazine·January 21, 2026
The Survivrs cast and creators arrive at ACMI, Melbourne for an exclusive screening of new Aussie limited-drama series last year. (Photo by Graham Denholm/Getty Images for Organic PR)
Tony Ayres Productions’ mystery series The Survivors has retained its position as the most-watched Australian TV series on Netflix in the streamer’s latest engagement report, garnering 8.3 million views and a total of 41.1 million viewing hours in the second half of last year.
Based on viewing data from July to December, the report measures engagement by views (total hours viewed divided by runtime) and represents 96 billion hours watched on Netflix.
Released on June 6, The Survivors stars Charlie Vickers as Kieran Elliott, a young man whose life changed forever when three people died in the seaside town where he grew up. The Tasmanian-shot series ranked 183rd in the latest report, having reached 44th in the previous edition with 19.7 million views.
Other local titles in the top 1000 included Gristmill’s The InBESTigators S1 & S2 (4.2 million and 3.8 million views) and Little Lunch (2.9 million views), Glenpictures’ Gymnastics Academy: A Second Chance (4 million views), and Easy Tiger and Ronde Media’s neo western Territory (2.7 million views).
Season 2 of dark comedy Wednesday was the most-watched show in the report, with 124 million views, while Season 1 ranked eighth with 47 million views.
There was some Australian representation in the top three, with the limited series Untamed, led by Eric Bana, coming in third with 92.8 million views.
Bana executive-produced and starred in the Warner Bros. Television mystery-thriller, which follows a special agent for the National Parks Service whose investigation of a brutal death sends him on a collision course with the dark secrets within the park, and in his own past. The series has been renewed for a second season.
Find the full report here.