Stranger Things season 2 all but confirmed by Netflix

The Netflix original has been a hit with subscribers

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It has been an average summer of TV, yet Stranger Things has still managed to capture the public's imagination like no other, quickly becoming the most talked about show of the last few weeks.

Having proven to be a critical success, it should come as no surprise that Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings has said it would be “dumb not to” do commission a second season.

Netflix - the streaming service who commissioned the show - do not release streaming figures, but Hastings did point to ratings on popular websites such as IMDB to prove the show’s popularity.

He told the Guardian: “Because we don’t have advertising we are under a whole different model to not compare all the shows and rank other shows, because it kind of doesn’t matter what everybody loves the most it, matters what you or I love most.

“You can get approximations ... if you look on IMDB the most popular TV show right now it’s Stranger Things, so that’s a reasonable proxy. It’s not that there’s no data, just that we don’t give out our data.”

Recently, the show’s creators revealed that numerous networks turned down the show because they ‘didn’t get it’. Meanwhile, a release date for the soundtrack to Stranger Things has been announced, the whole record currently streaming on Spotify.