Jennifer Garner’s Peacock Series Is Officially Its Biggest Streaming Hit With 861M Minutes Watched
Jennifer Garner's Peacock drama about a grieving widow who invites friends from different life chapters to Nantucket has become the streaming platform's most successful scripted series. The show accumulated 861 million viewing minutes in its debut week and has reached 1.8 billion minutes watched overall, surpassing all other original scripted content on the service.
Peacock has renewed the series for a second season, with creator Bekah Brunstetter and executive producer Garner indicating the story will explore new directions and character development. The streaming service has not yet announced premiere timing or formally confirmed the ensemble cast's return, though the core leads appear essential to the show's renewal premise.
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