The iconic Channel 4 soap launched on the STV Player at the beginning of the month.
On 1st February, the STV Player became the first streaming platform to air Brookside from the very start, with the first 10 episodes going live.
Since then, the show has been streamed over 1 million times, with more than 130,000 users having watched one full episode or more. The previous record was held by psychological mystery series Blood, which launched on STV Player in August 2022.
Sixty-five per cent of all Brookside streams have come from outside the STV broadcast channel’s central/northern Scotland broadcast region – reflecting STV Player’s move to become a standalone, UK-wide streaming service following its UK rollout in 2020.
In response to the overwhelming popularity of the series so far, STV Player has added 10 new episodes this week instead of the previously-announced five, meaning the first 20 episodes of Brookside are now available to stream.
Reflecting on the success of Brookside’s return on STV Player, Alex Fletcher, who played Jacqui Dixon on the show for 13 years, said:
“It doesn’t surprise me at all. I’m delighted and proud as punch that viewers’ loyalty and love for the show still remains after all these years.
“People grew up watching Brookie, and that’s why it’s so nostalgic. It was real life and it told real stories, all of which were – and still are – so relatable.”
STV Player acquired the Lime Pictures-produced show after striking a major deal with distributor, All3Media International.