The Bear is eating for Hulu. The Disney-owned streamer says the third season premiere of the Emmy winner racked up 5.4 million views worldwide over its first four days of release (it premiered June 27). The show streams on Disney+ outside…
The rule of Bridgerton — and Shonda Rhimes — on the streaming charts continued into the first two days of June. Bridgerton declined about 37 percent in viewing time from a week earlier, but the Regency-era drama still ranked No. 1 overall…
The first debate face-off (of the 2024 election cycle, at least) between President Joe Biden and Republican challenger Donald Trump drew a big audience — but not nearly as big as their 2020 debates. The 99-minute debate, produced by CNN…
The last game of the NHL’s Stanley Cup Finals delivered both on the ice and in the ratings. The Florida Panthers’ 2-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers in Monday night’s seventh game averaged 7.66 million viewers on ABC in the United States…
Disney kept a lock on the top spot as the media company responsible for the biggest share of TV viewing in May. That’s according to Nielsen’s second Media Distributor Gauge, which looks at how TV use stacks up by company. Disney’s 11.4…
Season three of Bridgerton ruled the streaming charts for a second straight week, holding onto most of its premiere week audience and racking up more than 2 billion minutes of viewing. A pair of sci-fi films, Jennifer Lopez’s Atlas and…
The final episode for long-time Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak drew a big audience — the biggest for the game show in more than four years. Sajak’s June 7 farewell on Wheel of Fortune, which he hosted for more than 40 years, drew 11.03…
Westeros remains a favored destination for HBO viewers. The second season premiere of House of the Dragon brought in 7.8 million viewers across all platforms in the U.S. Sunday night — a strong showing, without a doubt, but about 22…
The end of Young Sheldon’s seven-season run in May fueled a multi-platform surge for the show. The CBS comedy scored some of the biggest on-air ratings for a scripted series in the 2023-24 season with its series finale: It drew 9.32…
The audience for the Tony Awards took a hit Sunday — which was also one of the most lightly viewed Sunday on all of traditional TV in recent history. The Tonys averaged 3.53 million viewers, according to final same-day ratings from Nielsen…
The webs of romance in Bridgerton easily captured the top spot among all streaming titles for the show’s return. Theatrical flop Madame Web, meanwhile, found a promising start to its streaming life. Bridgerton drew 2.76 billion minutes of…
The 2023-24 TV season was blown apart before it ever began. Two labor strikes and media companies’ refusal to budge on the demands of writers and actors wiped out a couple dozen fall premieres for scripted series on the broadcast networks.…
ESPN ran a promotional campaign in the mid-2000s called “Without Sports” that posited the world would be less interesting and less connected in the absence of athletic competition (and, of course, ESPN’s exhaustive coverage of it). The…
A substantial number of Disney+ users followed The Acolyte over its first few days on the streamer. Disney+ says the Star Wars series recorded the biggest opening for a show on the streamer so far this year, with the premiere episode…
Netflix’s live roast of NFL great Tom Brady made it into the Nielsen streaming rankings for its premiere, despite only being available for a few hours of that week. After its first full week on the streamer, it rocketed to the top of the…
Nielsen, the long-time arbiter of ratings on traditional TV, is getting into the ad-supported streaming game. The company has struck a deal with Lionsgate to provide measurement for the studio’s MovieSphere FAST channel. Both sides are…
TV news coverage of former president Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in a New York trial drew a big crowd Thursday. Nearly 19 million viewers (18.81 million, to be precise) watched coverage of the verdict — cameras aren’t allowed in New York…
The Netflix special roasting NFL great Tom Brady made onto the streaming charts for the week it premiered — despite it only be up for a few hours of that week. The Roast of Tom Brady racked up 279 million minutes for the week of April 29…
It was the season of TV that wasn’t actually a full season for a host of shows. It was a season when an Australian blue heeler became the biggest thing in streaming, when women’s sports (basketball in particular) took a big leap, when Jon…
The finale of Shōgun pushed the series to its best showing so far on Nielsen’s streaming charts. The FX-produced Hulu series had 608 million minutes of viewing time for the week of its finale, April 22-28. That’s a 45 percent jump from the…
Netflix has released another huge batch of data about the time users spent with the service, and the top of its series list demonstrates how wide its global reach is. The No. 1 series for the second half of 2023, as measured by Netflix’s…
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)…
The final episodes of Young Sheldon drew a big crowd for CBS. The comedy ended its seven-season fun Thursday night with 8.95 million viewers for its series finale, based on fast national ratings from Nielsen. That’s the biggest same-day…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…