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Netflix’s Below reaches 38.2 million views as Newfoundland weighs its success — and a possible Season 2
Netflix’s Newfoundland-set thriller Below has spent two consecutive weeks atop Netflix’s global English-language television chart, generating a reported 38.2 million equivalent full-series views between October 8 and 18. Its 21.2 million views in the second chart week set a new single-week record for a Canadian Netflix original title, according to the streamer.
Below Episode 6 finale recap: “The Unfathering Deep” brings Calvin back to the sea
After everything that happened at Little Pot Rock, Calvin and Wade are back on a boat together, surrounded by blue water beneath a blue sky.
Below Episode 5 recap: “Little Pot Rock” reveals the cost of staying behind
Below opens on a beautiful, peaceful sunrise, with Calvin Penney apparently waking from a dream about being underwater.
Below Episode 4 recap: “The Ocean Will Have Us All” takes us beneath the surface
Episode 4 opens with Calvin Penney heading straight for the RSV Sir John Franklin, demanding to know where Wade is.
Below Episode 3 recap: “Sir John Franklin” brings a mysterious crew to Snooks Arm
Episode 3 of Below opens with Wade back out near the iceberg, despite everything that happened to Jerry Biles.
What Was the First Movie Ever Made in Canada?
If “movie” means a feature-length dramatic film produced in Canada, the answer is Evangeline, filmed in Nova Scotia in 1913 and released in 1914.
Below Episode 2 recap: “Crown and Anchor” brings the Old Hag to Snooks Arm
Episode 2 of Below picks up in the harbour at Snooks Arm, where a diver is searching the water around the wreck of Jerry Biles' boat.
Hudson & Rex Season 9 premieres on Citytv: time, returning cast and where to watch
Hudson & Rex returns for Season 9 on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Citytv, with John Reardon back as Detective Charlie Hudson. Rogers Sports & Media has ordered 12 episodes for the new season.
Is Snooks Arm in Netflix’s BELOW real? What happened to Newfoundland’s Snook’s Arm
Snooks Arm in Netflix’s BELOW is fictional. There is, however, a real Newfoundland community usually written Snook’s Arm in Statistics Canada and provincial records, and its relocation history overlaps with the broader resettlement history creator Jesse McKeown has drawn on for the series.
Who is in the cast of Netflix’s BELOW? Josh Hartnett, Mackenzie Davis and the Penney family
Netflix’s Below centres on fisherman Calvin Penney and his family in the Newfoundland community of Snooks Arm.
From Ice Cove to Snooks Arm: Netflix’s New Canadian Screen Geography
Ice Cove doesn't exist, although much of what viewers see around it does. North of North is set in a fictional Nunavut community, but the Netflix comedy was filmed in Iqaluit, where local residents appeared on screen, worked with the production and took part in a mentorship program that provided experience in television production.
Canadian creature features: Why Below is interesting
In Netflix’s Below, fisherman Calvin Penney lives in Snooks Arm, Newfoundland, where the local way of life is changing and an unidentified creature has begun terrorizing the community from the water.
Megan Follows joins Netflix’s This Summer Will Be Different, another P.E.I. story four decades after Anne of Green Gables
Four decades after Megan Follows starred as Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables, Netflix has cast her in another screen story tied to Prince Edward Island.
The Newfoundland connections behind Netflix’s Below
Perry Chafe grew up in Petty Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador, a small fishing community.
Below on Netflix: Release date, cast, episodes and everything we know
Netflix is heading to Newfoundland for Below, a six-episode creature thriller starring Josh Hartnett, Mackenzie Davis and Charlie Heaton.
Netflix’s Below brings a sea monster to Newfoundland
A house is being towed across the water at the beginning of Below, Netflix’s new six-episode creature thriller set in Newfoundland. Jesse McKeown, the series’ creator and showrunner, has connected that image directly to Newfoundland and Labrador’s history of resettlement, when residents left small and isolated communities for larger centres.
P.E.I.’s The Snake makes Canadian premiere at Atlantic International Film Festival
Prince Edward Island filmmaker Jenna MacMillan’s feature directorial debut, The Snake, is making its Canadian premiere as the Atlantic Gala at the Atlantic International Film Festival in Halifax.