Netflix Acquires Nippon TV's Time Loop Drama 'Rebooting'

Nippon TV has announced that Netflix has acquired the company's multiple-award-winning time loop drama series Rebooting to stream on Netflix in APAC countries starting 19 January.

Netflix will stream the hit series starting January 19th in Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and many more countries in SE Asia. Netflix has already started to stream Rebooting in Japan and the series was extremely well received and reached #1 in the daily series TOP 10 (TV Shows) on 12 December.

Rebooting aired on Nippon TV from January to March 2023, amazing viewers with a completely new twist on the time loop genre and went on to receive Nippon TV’s record-making number of views on VOD all throughout the year. Due to popular demand, in December 2023 Nippon TV re-aired the full 10-episode series for viewers to binge-watch over the holidays as well as making the series available on the national VOD platform, TVer, for a limited time.

Rebooting has received multiple major national as well as international awards, including ContentAsia Awards 2023 Gold Award for Best Drama Series/Telefilm made for a Single Market in Asia, Content Innovation Awards 2023 Best New Scripted Series Non-English Language, Asian Academy Creative Awards 2023 Best Director (Nippon TV’s Itaru Mizuno) and Best Trailer, and most recently the Asian Television Awards 2024 Best Scriptwriting (Scriptwriter Bakarhythm).

Keisuke Miyata, Head of Finished sales of Nippon TV, said: "It is the perfect timing for viewers in Asia to view the long-awaited hit series Rebooting on Netflix, after its victories with many major awards. I have no doubt that this amazing time loop series will surely surprise the Netflix audiences throughout APAC."

Rie Sawaoka, Director of Content, Netflix Japan, said: "It is our pleasure to bring the Japanese hit series Rebooting to our APAC-based audience. We are extremely proud of our ongoing collaboration with Nippon TV and be able to introduce the award-winning Japanese drama to the wider viewers outside of the country."