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:…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
The April 13 Saturday Night Live, with host Ryan Gosling and musical guest Chris Stapleton, had several talked-about moments, from Gosling’s monologue with his Fall Guy co-star Emily Blunt to a Beavis and Butt-head sketch that caused cast…
Jon Stewart’s return to The Daily Show has given the show a big lift on the nights that he hosts — and even on the nights he doesn’t. Stewart’s surprise return to Comedy Central’s late-night flagship — he’ll anchor the show on Monday…
The much-discussed special episode of Bluey is also the most watched episode of the show on Disney+. The April 14 installment of the beloved preschool series, “The Sign,” racked up 10.4 million views worldwide on Disney+ in the week after…
The docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV posted Max’s best streaming numbers to date for its premiere week. The show, which streamed on Max concurrent with its on-air premiere on ID, had 1.25 billion minutes of viewing for the…
Cable outlets saw their share of viewing rise in March for the first time in months, thanks to March Madness and the annual State of the Union address. Cable captured 28.3 percent of all TV viewing in March, according to Nielsen’s monthly…
Taylor Swift made her chart debut in Nielsen’s streaming rankings, as her concert movie The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) had a strong showing over its first four days of release on Disney+. The film racked up 677 million minutes of viewing…
The series finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm earned ratings that were pretty, pretty good for the show (hey, it’s probably the last time we can appropriate Larry David’s signature praise). The April 7 finale had a first-night audience of 1.1…
The audience for the NCAA men’s basketball championship ticked up from last year’s low — but for the first time, the men’s game drew a smaller TV crowd than the women’s final. Connecticut’s 75-60 victory over Purdue on Monday — a result…
For the third time in seven days, the NCAA women’s basketball tournament drew its largest audience ever. Some 18.7 million people watched South Carolina cap an undefeated season by beating Iowa, 87-75, in Sunday’s championship game,…
Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen opened with a bang on Netflix. The series, a spinoff of Ritchie’s 2019 film, delivered almost 1.21 billion minutes of viewing over its first four days (it premiered March 7), according to Nielsen’s streaming…
Last year’s NCAA women’s basketball championship set an all-time ratings record for a women’s game on ESPN. A rematch of that game — albeit two rounds earlier in the tournament — on Monday night drew an even bigger crowd. Iowa’s 94-87…
The live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender had a big premiere week. The remake of the beloved Nickelodeon animated series opened at No. 1 overall on Nielsen’s streaming charts for Feb. 19-25. Avatar had 2.56 billion minutes of viewing in…
The phenomenon that is Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour has extended to Disney+. The music superstar’s concert movie, The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version), had a solid opening weekend on the streamer. The movie amassed 4.6 million views (defined as…
Americans spent more time with their TV sets on Super Bowl Sunday than any day in the past three years — but despite that, overall TV usage declined some in February. On Feb. 11, viewers in the United States spent a collective 111 billion…
Netflix debuted the sixth season of Love Is Blind on Valentine’s Day, and the show captured a lot of viewers’ hearts — or at least their eyes. The dating show easily led Nielsen’s original streaming series rankings for Feb. 12-18, drawing…
The six months of labor action in Hollywood last summer and fall led to a host of network series having to shorten their seasons, with premieres four to five months later than their usual fall spots. The good news, though, is that viewers…
The 2024 Oscars were the most watched in four years. The Jimmy Kimmel-hosted telecast on ABC averaged 19.5 million viewers, according to time zone-adjusted fast national ratings from Nielsen. That’s a 4 percent increase from a year ago.…
The 2024 State of the Union address drew a larger TV audience than the 2023 address. President Joe Biden’s speech to Congress averaged 32.23 million viewers across 14 broadcast and cable outlets, almost 5 million more viewers than the 2023…
The week of the Super Bowl was a relatively light one for streaming in the United States — but that allowed a couple of shows to score solid positions in the top 10 despite relatively modest viewing times. Netflix’s romance One Day, which…
The third season premiere of BMF gathered its biggest audience to date for Starz. The drama’s March 1 debut racked up 5.1 million cross-platform viewers over its opening weekend. That’s the best performance to date for the series and up by…
The premiere of FX’s Shōgun delivered a sizable streaming audience worldwide to go along with solid on-air numbers in the United States. Over its first six days of release, the limited series’ first episode — based on James Clavell’s best…
Netflix’s Griselda spent a second week as the top streaming title in the United States, according to Nielsen. It was one of three shows to snag more than a billion minutes of watch time for the week of Jan. 29-Feb. 4. Mr. and Mrs. Smith…
Lifetime’s controversial Where Is Wendy Williams? documentary proved to be a big draw for the cable network. The 4 1/2-hour documentary, which aired over two nights on Feb. 24 and 25, averaged 1.04 million same-day viewers, according to…