Wonka's The Golden Ticket Opens at No.2 on Netflix with 4.6M Views

Wonka's The Golden Ticket opened at No. 2 on Netflix's English-language TV chart with 4.6 million views in its opening week.

The figures cover the week of 21 September, published in Netflix's weekly Top 10 update, as reported by Netflix Tudum and Deadline. The chart ranks English-language series by views, which Netflix counts for that seven-day window. Second place is a strong start. It was not first.

The series is a competition built around Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was shot in Australia and brings together 12 golden ticket winners. They compete for a lifetime supply of money. A two-part finale will premiere on 30 September.

The show sitting above it is Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story. That series held No. 1 with 14.5 million views in its second week, according to Deadline. It had drawn 12.5 million views in its first four days on the service. The gap at the top is wide.

Below Wonka, the chart was tight. Crew Girl took No. 3 with 4.5 million views. A sequel series to A Different World debuted at No. 4 with 4.2 million views. Love Is Blind Season 10, set in Ohio, also scored 4.6 million views in its opening week, matching Wonka's total.

For fans, this means a short wait. The Golden Ticket contest ends with its two-part finale on 30 September. The result will decide who takes the cash prize.

Netflix has paid out large competition prizes before. Mai Whelan won $4.56 million on Squid Game: The Challenge, as reported by People. That earlier result gives some context for the scale of money involved in the streamer's unscripted contests.