I recently began watching The Office (on my phone) and have found that I like even more than I did when I watched all 9 seasons when it first aired. I’m not the only one…. from The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix users streamed a whopping 52 billion-plus minutes of The Office in 2018, according to Nielsen figures, and 32.6 billion minutes of Friends. (Nielsen’s figures, huge as they are, are probably somewhat low, as Nielsen’s SVOD content ratings only measure viewing on TV sets, not other devices.)
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Consider the 52 billion minutes Netflix users spent watching The Office in 2018. Over the course of the year, Netflix had roughly 56.6 million subscribers in the US. (that’s the average of the company’s subscriber count for each quarter). That would mean that the average member account watched about 920 minutes (15.3 hours) of the former NBC series — at 22 minutes per episode, that’s almost 42 episodes for every subscriber.
One of the reasons I started to rewatch it is that I came across the DunderMifflin sub on Reddit. A few posts there reminded me of some funny scenes and there are many people that brag that they’ve watched all 9 seasons (189 episodes) repeatedly. 8, 9, 14 times… It is crazy!
But it is also why NBC so badly wanted to get “The Office” on its future streaming offering. They ended up paying…. $500 million for 5 years of rights to it. It will roll off of Netflix on January 1, 2021.
Watch it before then!!