Netflix’s India top 10 TV series have, since June 2021, been dominated by Korean and U.S. titles. Only nine local series have been viewed for enough hours to make it to the weekly list and only two – anthology Ray and competition show Comedy Premium League – have risen to #1. And even then, Ray was #1 for just a single week. Comedy Premium League stayed at #1 for two consecutive weeks, before falling back. Only one – House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths – has appeared on the global list of non-English TV shows, with 9,220,000 hours viewed (11-17 Oct). The most any Indian original has stayed on the list is four weeks. No particular genre seems to have any more of a chance than any other; originals that have made it to the top 10 range from comedy, crime, satire and factual to black-and-white drama and romance. 
 

Published in ContentAsia December 2021 magazine