Hot Sheet: The Summer I Turned Pretty maintains top demand

Netflix's Wednesday spiked in demand in the first week of September, following the premiere of part two of its second season.

Prime Video’s The Summer I Turned Pretty (pictured) maintained overall Canadian demand through the first week of September as it continued towards its series finale.

The coming-of-age romantic drama was 59.4 times more in demand than the average series in Canada during the week of Sept. 1 to 7, according to Parrot Analytics. The ninth episode of its third and final season released on Sept. 3. The series’ final episode premieres on Sept. 17.

Comedy Central’s South Park soared to No. 2 overall with an average of 52.3. The show had landed at No. 6 overall the week prior, holding a demand average of 40. The fourth episode of the adult animated comedy’s 27th season released on Paramount+ Canada on Sept. 3.

Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale — available on Prime Video, Crave and illico+ in Canada — jumped to No. 2 on the digital original chart and reappeared on the overall chart at No. 6 with a demand average of 37.6, up 10 points from the week prior. The dystopian drama, based on Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s book of the same name, aired its series finale on May 27.

Netflix’s Wednesday jumped to No. 3 on the digital chart and No. 7 overall in early September. The horror comedy centred on the titular Addams Family daughter had landed at No. 9 on the digital chart the week prior, with a demand average of 23.4. Netflix premiered part two of Wednesday‘s second season on Sept. 3.

Top 10 Digital Originals: Canada

1. The Summer I Turned Pretty (Prime Video): 59.4
2. The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu): 37.6
3. Wednesday (Netflix): 37.28
4. Peacemaker (HBO Max): 35.6
5. Stranger Things (Netflix): 32.4
6. Hazbin Hotel (Prime Video): 30.1
7. Love Island USA (Peacock): 27.4
8. Black Mirror (Netflix): 25.7
9. King of the Hill (Hulu): 24
10. Letterkenny (Crave): 22.9

Top 10 Overall Originals: Canada

1. The Summer I Turned Pretty (Prime Video): 59.4
2. South Park (Comedy Central): 52.3
3. Saturday Night Live (NBC): 51.3
4. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS): 48.3
5. Sesame Street (PBS): 47.1
6. The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu): 37.6
7. Wednesday (Netflix): 37.28
8. America’s Got Talent (NBC): 36.7
9. Peacemaker (HBO Max): 35.6
10. SpongeBob SquarePants (Nickolodeon): 33.4

Parrot Analytics calculates its Top 10 lists using Demand Expressions, which are shown by using a metric that demonstrates how much more in-demand the top series are than the average TV show (linear, pay TV, SVOD and AVOD) in Canada. For example, a difference of 1x represents the market average and 10x means a series is 10 times more in demand than the average TV show in this market. Demand is defined as the total audience demand being expressed for a title within a market. Audience demand reflects the desire, engagement and viewership, weighted by importance; thus, a stream or download is a higher expression of demand than a “like” or comment.

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