TV Ratings
‘Virgin River’ Dethrones ‘Suits’ in Streaming Rankings
Suits‘ three-month stranglehold on the top of the Nielsen streaming charts has come to an end. Netflix’s Virgin River moved ahead of Suits and claimed the No. 1 overall spot for the week of Sept. 11-17. The drama, whose fifth season premiered Sept. 7, improved by 7 percent from the previous week with 2.05 billion […]
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‘Golden Bachelor’ Sparks With Streaming Viewers
The Golden Bachelor continues to capture viewers’ hearts. After a solid on-air premiere and a strong showing over three days of delayed viewing and streaming, the ABC series’ momentum continued across additional days. After a week of multi-platform viewing, the Sept. 28 series premiere for The Golden Bachelor hit 9 million viewers, more than double […]
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‘Loki’ Delivers Strong Viewing for Season 2 Premiere, Disney+ Says
The second season of Loki had a solid opening for Disney+, according to internal viewing data from the streamer. The season two premiere of the Marvel series racked up 10.9 million views worldwide over its first three days (plus a few hours), as defined by the increasingly industry-standard formula of total viewing time divided by […]
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‘Suits’ Sets Streaming Chart Record for Most Weeks at No. 1
The summer of Suits continued past Labor Day, as the legal drama set a streaming chart record for most weeks as the No. 1 overall title. The former USA series, which streams on Netflix and Peacock, spent its 12th consecutive week at the top of Nielsen’s rankings, which go back three years. It had 2.36 […]
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‘Golden Bachelor’ Hits Three-Year High for Franchise With Cross-Platform Viewing
After a solid showing for its initial broadcast, The Golden Bachelor continued gathering momentum in the subsequent days — enough to hit a three-year high for the Bachelor franchise in total viewers. The Sept. 28 premiere rose to 7.7 million viewers after three days of cross-platform viewing, a gain of 3.34 million viewers (and almost 77 […]
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TV Ratings: Chiefs, Jets and Taylor Swift Drive Big NFL Audience
The intertwining of two of the biggest forces in American popular culture — the NFL and Taylor Swift — paid off handsomely for NBC on Sunday night. The network’s Sunday Night Football telecast scored its biggest audience of the season, averaging nearly 27 million viewers across all platforms, according to Nielsen and Adobe Analytics (as […]
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TV Ratings: ‘Golden Bachelor’ Earns a Rose From Viewers
The premiere of The Golden Bachelor on ABC delivered a decent sized audience on Thursday — one larger than the most recent edition of its parent series, in fact. Thursday Night Football, meanwhile, continued its strong early-season results for Amazon’s Prime Video. The Golden Bachelor, in which 72-year-old widower Gerry Turner looks for love among a […]
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‘One Piece’ Opens Big in Streaming Rankings
Netflix’s One Piece sailed to the top of the original streaming series rankings in its first week of release. Suits, meanwhile, maintained its grip on the top of the overall charts. One Piece, a live-action adaptation of the beloved manga and anime, delivered 1.31 billion minutes of viewing in the United States for the week […]
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TV Ratings: Republican Primary Debate Down, Still Leads Primetime
The second debate of the Republican presidential primary didn’t draw quite as big an audience as the first. Wednesday’s event at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library drew a combined 9.5 million viewers across Fox News, Fox Business, Univision and Fox digital platforms. That’s down about 27 percent from the 13 million who watched the first […]
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TV Ratings: Taylor Swift Draws Young Female Viewers to NFL Blowout
Fox’s late afternoon NFL broadcast Sunday was down some from the same week a year ago — but the most famous fan in attendance at the game may have helped drive a ratings uptick in at least one demographic. Taylor Swift attended the Kansas City Chiefs’ 41-10 blowout of the Chicago Bears Sunday, sitting in […]
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‘Ahsoka’ Makes Strong Debut on Streaming Charts
The newest Star Wars series on Disney+, Ahsoka, delivered a sizable viewing audience during its opening week. Suits continued its summer-long run as the top overall title. The first two episodes of Ahsoka, starring Rosario Dawson as the title character, had 829 million minutes of viewing in the United States for the week of Aug. […]
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TV Ratings: ‘Yellowstone’ CBS Run Gets Off to Solid Start
Yellowstone can still draw a crowd — even for a repeat. The Paramount Network hit made its CBS debut Sunday night and pulled in a solid audience. The broadcast network is airing the series, beginning with its first season, on Sunday nights in the fall to help fill out its strike-affected primetime lineup. It worked […]
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