Apple Cider Vinegar climbs to #3 Globally on Netflix’s Top 10 – The limited Australian TV series Apple Cider Vinegar, produced by See-Saw Films and Picking Scabs’, continues to reach global audiences, climbing to #3 in the global Top 10 English TV show list and amassing 5.6 million views last week.
The series is now #1 in 5 countries: Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Lithuania and Latvia.
In addition to climbing the Netflix viewing charts, this true-ish story, based on a lie continues to draw in social and media commentary globally.
The 2017 book in which the fictional series is based on, The Woman Who Fooled The World by Beau Donelly & Nick Toscano, has also appeared on the best selling lists on Apple and Amazon since Apple Cider Vinegar premiered on Netflix earlier this month.
On Apple it is the #1 Paid Non-Fiction title; on Amazon it is the #1 Audible Audiobook and #2 for Kindle Edition in True Crime accounts.
Apple Cider Vinegar is the latest Australian series to feature in the Netflix Top 10, with Territory peaking at #2, Heartbreak High S2 peaking at #5, and Boy Swallows Universe peaking at #3 on the global Top 10 English TV list.
Other Australian productions recently featured in the Top 10 include hits Surviving Summer Seasons 1 & 2, Love is in the Air, Fisk, Run Rabbit Run, Wellmania, True Spirit, and The Stranger.
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Synopsis: Set at the birth of Instagram, Apple Cider Vinegar follows two young women who set out to cure their life-threatening illnesses through health and wellness, influencing their global online communities along the way. All of which would be incredibly inspiring if it were all true. This is a true-ish story based on a lie, about the rise and fall of a wellness empire; the culture that built it up and the people who tore it down.
Director: Jeffrey Walker (The Clearing, The Artful Dodger, Modern Family)
Creator: Samantha Strauss
Writer: Samantha Strauss (The End, Nine Perfect Strangers, Dance Academy), with Anya Beyersdorf (The Twelve, Fake) and Angela Betzien (Total Control)
Inspired by: ‘The Woman Who Fooled the World’ by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano
Executive Producers: See-Saw Films’ Liz Watts, Helen Gregory, Emile Sherman and Iain Canning; Picking Scabs’ Samantha Strauss and Louise Gough; and Kaitlyn Dever
Producer: Yvonne Collins
Co-Producers: See-Saw Films’ Libby Sharpe
Co-Executive Producers: Jeffrey Walker; See-Saw Films’ Simon Gillis
Cast: Kaitlyn Dever (Dopesick, Unbelievable), Alycia Debnam-Carey (The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Fear the Walking Dead) Aisha Dee (The Bold Type, Safe Home), Tilda Cobham-Hervey (The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, I Am Woman), Ashley Zukerman (Succession), Mark Coles Smith (Mystery Road: Origin), Susie Porter (Irreverent, Wentworth), Matt Nable (Transfusion, Last King of the Cross), Phoenix Raei (The Night Agent), Chai Hansen (Night Sky, The New Legends of Monkey), Rick Davies (Offspring), Kieran Darcy-Smith (Mr Inbetween), Catherine McClements (Total Control) and Essie Davis (One Day, The Babadook)
The limited series was shot on-location in Melbourne, Australia with support from VicScreen through their Victorian Production Fund. Post Production took place in NSW with support through Screen NSW and their PDV Fund.
Apple Cider Vinegar on Netflix – now streaming.
Media Release – Netflix
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Apple Cider Vinegar climbs to #3 Globally on Netflix’s Top 10
