Netflix‘s partnership with author Harlan Coben continues to pay dividends.
I Will Find You, the streamer’s latest adaptation of one of Coben’s novels, had the biggest premiere week for any new Netflix series so far this year. According to Netflix’s internal data, the thriller drew 24 million views worldwide for the week of June 15-21; I Will Find You premiered on June 18.
With a running time of just under 5 1/2 hours, the eight-episode series racked up 131.7 million hours of watch time across the globe.
The previous high mark for a Netflix series premiere in 2026 was 19.9 million views for His & Hers in January. I Will Find You also had the fifth-best week for any Netflix English-language series — new or returning — this year. It trails two entries for Bridgerton season four (39.7 million and 28 million views for the weeks the two halves of the season premiered), Stranger Things (31.3 million for the week of the series finale) and week two of His & Hers (29.5 million).
I Will Find You is the 13th series adaptation of one of Harlan Coben’s books at Netflix, including local-language productions in Poland, Spain, France and Argentina. Fool Me Once was one of Netflix’s biggest shows of 2024, earning 98 million worldwide views (total viewing hours divided by run time) in its first 13 weeks. In January, Run Away premiered to 12.7 million views and spent four weeks in the streamer’s worldwide top 10.
I Will Find You stars Sam Worthington as a man wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his son. When he learns the boy may still be alive, he breaks out of prison to find his son and prove his innocence. Britt Lower, Chi McBride, Logan Browning, Erin Richards, Jonathan Tucker and Milo Ventimiglia also star.
Robert Hull is the showrunner and executive produces with Coben, Bryan Wynbrandt, Steven Lilien, John Weber and Brad Anderson, who directed the first two episodes.
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