TV Ratings
‘Bridgerton’ Season 3 Scores Series Best Opening in Netflix Rankings
The third season of Bridgerton recorded the show’s biggest opening weekend to date. According to Netflix’s internal rankings, the first half of season three racked up 45.05 million views (total hours watched divided by running time) worldwide after its May 16 premiere. That’s about 165.2 million hours of viewing time. By comparison, season two debuted […]
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TV Ratings: ‘Young Sheldon’ Series Finale Scores Four-Year High
The final episodes of Young Sheldon drew a big crowd for CBS. The comedy ended its seven-season run Thursday night with 9.32 million viewers for its series finale, according to final same-day ratings from Nielsen (which don’t include streaming). That’s the biggest same-day audience for the show in four years — since its third season finale […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘Baby Reindeer’ Makes Chart Debut, ‘Fallout’ Stays on Top
Netflix’s Baby Reindeer entered the streaming top 10 in mid-April, and given the continued buzz around the series, it’s likely to stay around for a while. The show drew 673 million minutes of viewing for the week of April 15-21, according to Nielsen’s latest streaming rankings. That was good for third place among original series […]
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Disney Grabs Highest Share of TV Viewing in April — With YouTube a Solid Second
New data from Nielsen shows that Disney grabs the biggest share of TV viewing among all media companies in the United States — and has for the past six months. In addition to its monthly Gauge rankings of viewing by platform (streaming, cable and broadcast), Nielsen is also providing a monthly look at TV usage by […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘Fallout’ Has Amazon’s Biggest Opening Ever
Prime Video has touted the viewer response to Fallout as its second-biggest series ever worldwide over 16 days of release. In the United States (and over a shorter time period), it’s No. 1. Fallout recorded 2.9 billion minutes of viewing time in the U.S. over its first five days, according to Nielsen’s streaming ratings for […]
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Katt Williams Outdraws Tom Brady in Netflix Rankings
Netflix’s Roast of Tom Brady got loads of press coverage (including several stories on this very website), but a different live special from the streamer’s Netflix Is a Joke festival racked up more views over the weekend. Katt Williams: Woke Foke, which streamed live on Saturday, May 4, earned 4 million views (determined by total […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘The Resident’ Climbs to No. 1
The doctors were in at the top of Nielsen’s streaming ratings for the beginning of April. Medical dramas The Resident and Grey’s Anatomy were the top two titles for the week of April 1-7, finishing with 1.18 billion and 1.15 billion minutes of viewing time (both stream on Hulu and Netflix). The Resident actually slipped […]
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‘Knuckles’ Sets Opening-Weekend Record for Paramount+ Original Series
Paramount+ got a record-setting opening from its Sonic the Hedgehog-adjacent series Knuckles. The six-episode series, featuring Idris Elba voicing the title character and also starring Adam Pally, amassed 4 million hours of viewing worldwide over its first three days of release — a record for a Paramount+ original series, the streamer says. (Paramount+’s announcement also marks […]
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CBS Claims 16th Straight Season as Most Watched Broadcaster in Primetime
A broadcast TV season that began with cobbled-together schedules during dual labor strikes is ending the way every season in the recent past has — with CBS as the most watched network. With a few weeks left in the September-to-May season, CBS will end up as No. 1 in primetime for the 16th straight season. The […]
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Telemundo Scores Two-Month Ratings Winning Streak in Spanish-Language TV
Telemundo is riding the longest ratings winning streak it’s ever had in Spanish-language television. The NBCUniversal-owned network has topped Univision in primetime for two consecutive months, closing out April with substantial leads over its rival. Telemundo averaged 1.2 million total viewers and 344,000 adults 18-49 for the month, topping Univision by margins of 21 percent […]
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International Audiences Drive ‘Fallout’ to Big Showing on Amazon
Fallout has become one of Prime Video’s biggest series ever — according to Prime Video. The well-reviewed show, based on the video game franchise of the same name, has become the second-most-watched title ever on the Amazon streaming service over its first 16 days of release, the company says. Prime Video says 65 million viewers worldwide […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘3 Body Problem’ Repeats as Overall No. 1
Netflix’s 3 Body Problem delivered its second straight No. 1 showing among streaming titles, leading the rankings for the last week of March. The acquired series top 10 had several new entrants, thanks in part to a change in how Nielsen reports the numbers. The ratings service says it made an “enhancement” to its Streaming […]
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