A Harry Potter star’s brand-new eight-part British thriller thriller, Down Cemetery Street, has change into an enormous hit on Apple TV. The Harry Potter film franchise is among the most profitable on this planet, and featured an ensemble solid of a number of the most gifted and iconic actors British and Irish cinema has produced.
Emma Thompson, who performed the function of Professor Sybill Trelawney in three Harry Potter motion pictures, heads up the solid of Down Cemetery Street, a twisty thriller a few suburban lady teaming with a PI to uncover a conspiracy. The undertaking has confirmed to be a powerful success on streaming, surging on the Apple TV charts.
Per Apple TV, Down Cemetery Street, which additionally stars Ruth Wilson, is at present sitting at #3 on this planet proper now, behind world sensation Gradual Horses, at #2, and Apple TV’s flagship sequence, The Morning Present, at #1. It additionally sits above The Final Frontier at #4, Loot at #5, and the resurgent sports-comedy Ted Lasso at #6.
The success of Down Cemetery Street may very well be all the way down to plenty of components, and the present’s sturdy essential opinions will little question have helped its efficiency on streaming. The star energy of Thompson and Wilson can have carried out quite a bit to spice up the present’s profile, and the truth that thrillers are inclined to carry out nicely on streaming.
Emma Thompson additionally serves as an government producer on Down Cemetery Street.
Added to that is the truth that the present is tailored from the 2003 novel by Mick Herron, who additionally wrote the novel sequence Gradual Horses is tailored from. The essential and industrial success of Gradual Horses, which just lately scooped two Primetime Emmy’s, and has constantly been a powerful performer on Apple TV, will little question have boosted curiosity in Down Cemetery Street.
Down Cemetery Street‘s politically charged conspiratorial thriller angle has clearly confirmed a success with audiences, and the truth that the sequence has carried out nicely with solely two episodes launched up to now bodes nicely for the long run. The present might nicely have a long term on Apple TV, and would possibly even hit the #1 spot within the weeks to come back.
Whether or not the present will run previous one season stays to be seen, however the long-term success of Gradual Horses means that Herron’s work definitely offers the chance for expansive narrative. Quite a bit will rely upon how nicely the present is obtained as soon as it reaches its conclusion, however Down Cemetery Street season 2 shouldn’t be dominated out.
Down Cemetery Street
8/10
- Launch Date
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October 29, 2025
- Community
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Apple TV+
- Showrunner
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Carlton Cuse, Ryan J. Condal
- Administrators
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Natalie Bailey