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CBS came out on top in Week 2 of the NFL season, likely thanks in part to the Kansas City Chiefs, whose narrow victory over the Cincinnati Bengals drew 27.87M viewers on Sunday. Not only was that the most-watched game of the week, it’s the largest Week 2 NFL audience in decades, up 8% versus CBS…

Being on a global, well distributed streaming platform like Netflix did not give the SAG Awards a viewership bump. Since the Feb. 24 awards show did not make Netflix’s Feb. 19-25 weekly Top 10 list, we knew the ceremony drew fewer than 2.1M views in the first 24 hours but its exact delivery was unknown…

AMC is the latest to benefit from the Netflix effect, with A Discovery of Witches and Dark Winds jumping onto the Nielsen charts in the week the series debuted on the streamer. Dark Winds tallied 929M minutes viewed from August 19 to August 25 with a strong concentration among the 50+ audience…

In a clear sign of the times, more competitors have been licensing content to Netflix in the past year or so, including Showtime, which handed Your Honor and Dexter over this summer. Netflix’s latest edition of What We’re Watching, which pulls back the curtain on viewership for all of its titles…

Ryan Murphy’s new ABC medical drama Doctor Odyssey starring Joshua Jackson and Don Johnson is headed for the record books with its trailer logging 77.8 million views within its first 48 hours of release. The total makes this the most-watched trailer for a new broadcast TV show ever. The prior record was…

Netflix’s latest data dump has given more insight into its decision-making process when it comes to renewals and cancellations. While the streamer has always said those decisions come down to performance vs. cost, its third What We Watched report is beginning to crystallize what some of the…

ABC sashayed its way to a ratings win Tuesday with the Season 33 premiere of Dancing with the Stars. The episode debuted last night to 4.97 million viewers, according to Live + Same-Day Nielsen data, presenting a 4% lift versus the Season 32 premiere’s audience of 4.78M last…

Rebel Ridge and The Perfect Couple were back atop the Netflix charts last week. Both titles grew week-over-week, as Rebel Ridge was once again the streamer’s top title with 38.6M views from September 9 to 15, easily soaring to No. 1 among English-language films. In second place among films was the…

Disney has one more thing to celebrate about the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards, as it appears the show might finally be back on the up and up. Sunday’s telecast drew 6.87 million viewers on ABC, according to early Nielsen data. That’s makes it the show’s largest audience in three years, up 60% from…

Once again buoyed by Taylor Swift and her several big wins, the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards delivered its biggest audience in four years. Hosted by Megan Thee Stallion, Wednesday’s awards show managed 3.11 million viewers during its premiere telecast across 13 networks, representing a 25% boost compar…

Prison Break held a steady audience for the second consecutive week, raking in another 1.6B minutes viewed from August 12 to 18. That put it in first place on Nielsen’s streaming charts, fueled by its return to Netflix in July. According to Nielsen, Hispanic viewers accounted for nearly a third of Pri…

The Texas Longhorns took the Michigan Wolverines to task on Saturday in the most-watched Week 2 college football matchup. The game drew 9.35M viewers for Fox, which marks the biggest audience of the season so far, up just slightly from the 9.2M who tuned in for the USC-LSU game in Week 1. Granted…