TV Ratings
British Empire: U.K.-Produced Shows Rule Netflix in Latest Data Dump
The theme song for Netflix’s data dump for the first half of 2024 might as well be “Rule, Britannia.” Four U.K.-produced series are at the top of the streamer’s internal rankings for January to June, led by Fool Me Once with 107.5 million views worldwide over the course of those six months. Season three of […]
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Peacock Hits All-Time Usage High Thanks to Summer Olympics
Peacock had its best month to date in August, scoring the largest share of TV use in the United States in the streamer’s four-year history thanks to the Summer Olympics. With a huge menu of Olympics coverage, Peacock climbed to 1.5 percent of TV usage in July to 2.1 percent for the August period (which […]
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TV Ratings: Emmys Jump by 55 Percent, Stop Streak of All-Time Lows
Returning to their usual September berth helped give a big boost to the TV ratings for the 2024 Emmys. Sunday’s awards show, hosted by Eugene and Dan Levy on ABC, averaged 6.9 million viewers in final same-day ratings from Nielsen. That’s a 55 percent jump over the delayed 2023 awards, which pulled in 4.46 million […]
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TV Ratings: NFL Returns in Dominating Form
That the NFL attracted big audiences over its first week of the 2024 season is no surprise — it’s the biggest show on TV, after all. But the league’s opening slate of games in week one (and the first night of week two) are performing at even higher levels than usual. The week one slate of […]
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TV Ratings: VMAs Hit Four-Year Viewer High
The 2024 MTV Video Music Awards scored its biggest audience in four years. Wednesday’s show, which included a record fifth video of the year win for Taylor Swift, averaged 4.09 million viewers across MTV, 11 other Paramount-owned cable channels and UniMas. That’s an 8 percent gain over the 2023 VMAs (3.78 million viewers) and the […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘Emily in Paris’ Opens Lower With Half-Season Release
Netflix released the first half of Emily in Paris‘ fourth season Aug. 15, and as a result got just over half of the tune-in for the show’s last full-season premiere. The dramedy starring Lily Collins gathered 792 million minutes of viewing in the United States for its premiere week, according to Nielsen’s streaming ratings. That […]
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TV Ratings: Harris-Trump Debate Draws 67M Viewers, Soars Past June Biden Face-Off
The first (and possibly only) presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump drew a substantially larger audience than a June debate between Trump and President Joe Biden. Final Nielsen ratings figures for Tuesday’s telecast, produced by ABC News but simulcast on multiple broadcast and cable networks, show the debate drawing […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘Prison Break’ Absconds With No. 1 Overall Ranking
In its second week on Netflix, Prison Break rocketed to the top of Nielsen’s streaming rankings. The former Fox series, which also streams on Hulu, was added to Netflix on July 29 and made its streaming chart debut that week. For the week of Aug. 5-11, it more than doubled the previous frame’s viewing time, […]
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YouTube Claims No. 1 Spot Among TV Distributors in July
YouTube became the first streaming service to command more than 10 percent of all TV use in the United States in July. That number also is good for another first: YouTube was the top distributor of TV programming for the month, dethroning Disney and becoming the first streaming-only company to lead Nielsen’s media distributor rankings. […]
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Harris-Walz Interview Draws 6M Viewers for CNN
The first televised interview with Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her VP pick, Tim Walz, drew a sizable audience for CNN on Thursday night. The 50-minute interview with CNN anchor Dana Bash drew 6.31 million viewers, according to final same-day ratings from Nielsen. That’s up from 5.99 million in earlier ratings, which didn’t include […]
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Streaming Ratings: No Originals Make Overall Top 10 for First Time Ever
The Olympics brought in very strong streaming numbers for Peacock during the first full week of the games. For other streamers? Not so much. No original series or movie made the overall top 10 titles in Nielsen’s streaming rankings for the week of July 29-Aug. 4. That’s a first in the four-year history of the […]
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‘Chimp Crazy’ on Pace for Multiyear Viewer Highs for HBO Doc Series
HBO’s Chimp Crazy is looking like it will be the outlet’s most watched documentary series in several years. The show, from Tiger King director Eric Goode, isn’t drawing The Last of Us-level (or even Curb Your Enthusiasm-level) audience numbers. But Chimp Crazy is on pace to be the biggest docuseries at HBO since McMillions in […]
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