Netflix have unveiled the show that UK viewers binge the quickest

The most quickly-viewed series in the UK probably isn’t the one you’d expect
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Ben Travis8 June 2016

You know how it is with Netflix – you start a new series, sit down to watch an episode or two, and before you know it you’re a whole series deep.

With each episode automatically starting after the end of the previous one, it’s all too easy to binge a show once you get going.

Now, the streaming service has unveiled which shows UK users absolutely fly through, and which ones they spread out over a longer space of time.

The show which is viewed most quickly in the UK perhaps isn’t the one you’d expect – and it's not a series that Netflix is especially well-known for.

The quickest-binged show is American sci-fi thriller The 4400 – about 4400 missing people who re-appear on Earth at the same time with special powers.

The series originally aired on CBS from 2004 to 2007, but was cancelled after its fourth series.

On average, The 4400 viewers burned through two and a half hours of the show per day.

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Globally, the speediest-viewed show is BBC thriller The Fall, starring Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan.

On the slower side of things in the UK are the likes of The Killing, Breaking Bad – there’s only so much of Walter White’s moral decline that British audiences can take in one go, though it’s apparently binged elsewhere in the world – and Netflix original crime series Narcos.

The least-binged series tend to be ‘Irrevent Comedies’ – from BoJack Horseman and Arrested Development, to Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Love.

With the British summer currently bringing the rain, what better time to find your next binge.

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