Amazon’s New 6-Part Action-Adventure Is Officially the Biggest Show on Streaming

Pirate shows have had a mixed history on television, partly because they’re expensive to produce and don’t always attract a big enough audience to justify the cost. That might explain why studios keep returning to familiar stories like Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 novel Treasure Island rather than taking chances on original pirate adventures. The name alone gives them a head start with audiences. And Amazon MGM Studios seems to be benefiting from that right now, as its new six-part adaptation of Treasure Island has climbed to No. 1 among TV shows on MGM+.

‘Treasure Island’ Has Climbed to No. 1 on MGM+

According to FlixPatrol‘s Nov. 8 chart, the series is sitting ahead of titles like Stargate Atlantis, American Hostage, The Westies, and Teen Wolf. The ranking caps a steady four-week ascent for the series, which premiered on Oct.11 in the US and has rolled out weekly since, with its finale due Nov. 15. It hit the charts almost immediately, landing among MGM+’s most-watched titles within a day of launch and topping the platform in Germany, Italy, and Spain before consolidating the US crown as the season built toward its endgame.

Weekly releases tend to peak right before a finale, so the timing of this chart win probably isn’t a coincidence, though holding off the platform’s comfort-watch library staples for this long suggests genuine word of mouth rather than a launch-week spike. The show itself is a British-American co-production from Playground Entertainment, the company behind prestige literary fare like Wolf Hall, with Paramount+ carrying it in the UK and Ireland. Creator Robert Murphy has taken real liberties with the source material, most notably expanding Jim Hawkins’ mother into a central role played by Hayley Atwell, while David Oyelowo takes on Long John Silver and Jack Huston plays an invented antagonist named Aaron Graham.

Tom Sweet anchors things as Jim, whose discovery of Flint’s map sends the whole ensemble scrambling aboard the Hispaniola. MGM+’s Michael Wright pitched the project at commission as squarely on brand, saying, “This thrilling new adaptation of Stevenson’s classic adventure Treasure Island is a perfect expression of the MGM+ brand” and calling it “classic Hollywood storytelling crafted for a contemporary audience” (via Deadline).

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The series currently sits at a rough 4.5 out of 10 on IMDb from early voters, a score that likely reflects purist frustration with the reinvented characters as much as the show’s actual craft. Chart dominance on a smaller platform like MGM+ also isn’t the same achievement as topping Netflix, so some perspective is warranted. Still, Amazon has been quietly building MGM+ into a home for exactly this sort of handsome adventure programming alongside its Robin Hood series, and a homegrown original outdrawing the Stargate back catalog is the kind of proof of concept that tends to get second seasons ordered. The finale’s performance next week should tell us whether this crew sails on.

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2026-10-11

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