Netflix Top 10s: Natalee Holloway Docuseries Leads as Black Doves Falls 65% and A Dog’s Perfect Christmas Struggles
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Welcome to our weekly rundown of the Netflix top 10s, covering November 2nd to November 8th. Sadly, this is another tough week to report on, with few new English-language releases worth celebrating. A Dog’s Perfect Christmas topped the English film chart but had the weakest opening of any Netflix Wednesday Christmas movie since 2024.
Black Doves returned for season 2, down 65% on its first season, and two major English series, Bass X Machina and North of North, failed to chart at all. Taken: Natalee Holloway was the one bright spot, debuting at the top of the English TV list with 12.9 million views. Non-English titles carried the week. Collision Course jumped to 17.2 million views in its second week, A Couple of Lies more than doubled its audience and Dead-End Job held on to the top spot. Still, it’s increasingly worrying that Netflix, which has always prided itself on launching new titles, is finding it so hard to get its originals off the ground.
A Dog’s Perfect Christmas Debuts with 8.6M Views
A Dog’s Perfect Christmas. (L to R) Milo Ventimiglia as Hunter, Kathleen Rose Perkins as Juliana, Ethan Loomis as Sean, Director Cathryn Michon, Brooke Lena Johnson as Ello, Mary Steenburgen as Claire and Dennis Quaid as Sander in A Dog’s Perfect Christmas. Cr. Diyah Pera/Netflix ©2026.
Beginning in 2024, Netflix shifted its Christmas movie lineup to all release on Wednesday, which means we’ve now got a few years’ worth of comparisons over the coming weeks as Netflix drops its festive slate. It arguably didn’t get off to the best of starts with A Dog’s Perfect Christmas winning the hearts of those who watched but clearly didn’t get enough people through the door. It’s plum last compared to titles from prior years. Netflix has notably ramped up licensing of other Christmas movies so far this year compared to prior years; is that eating into the visibility of A Dog’s Perfect Christmas? We’re not sure.
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Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 11 Netflix titles: Our Little Secret, Champagne Problems, Jingle Bell Heist, That Christmas, Meet Me Next Christmas, My Secret Santa, Hot Frosty, The Merry Gentlemen, I Believe in Santa, A Merry Little Ex-Mas, A Dog’s Perfect Christmas. Combined total: 191,700,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for Our Little Secret, Champagne Problems, Jingle Bell Heist, That Christmas, Meet Me Next Christmas and 6 more Netflix titles over 1 weeks.
Title
Opening Week Views
Rank
Our Little Secret
32,400,000
1
Champagne Problems
20,500,000
2
Jingle Bell Heist
19,300,000
3
That Christmas
18,300,000
4
Meet Me Next Christmas
18,100,000
5
My Secret Santa
18,100,000
6
Hot Frosty
16,000,000
7
The Merry Gentlemen
14,700,000
8
I Believe in Santa
12,900,000
9
A Merry Little Ex-Mas
12,800,000
10
A Dog’s Perfect Christmas
8,600,000
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