Sally Rooney's love story doubles the records previously held on the streaming platform Normal People has broken the previously set record to give BBC Three its best-ever week on iPlayer.
Over the initial seven-day period following its release on iPlayer on April 26, there were 16.2 million requests for Normal People, and over 21.8 million for BBC Three.
The record was previously set by the first season of Killing Eve, which Normal People has now doubled. The 12-part series follows Connell Waldron (Paul Mescal) and Marianne Sheridan (Daisy Edgar-Jones) as they fall in and out of each other’s lives from school into university and beyond.
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