TV Ratings
TV Ratings: Grammys Score Biggest Audience Since Pre-Pandemic
The Grammy Awards recorded their biggest TV audience in four years on Sunday, posting big ratings improvements over the 2023 ceremony. CBS’ telecast, which saw Taylor Swift take home album of the year honors and best pop vocal album, drew 16.9 million viewers, based on time zone-adjusted fast national ratings from Nielsen. That’s the biggest […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘Fool Me Once’ Opens Big for Netflix
Netflix rang in 2024 with a huge opening week for its series Fool Me Once. The thriller based on a novel by Harlan Coben scored better than 3 billion minutes of viewing in the week of Jan. 1-7, easily leading Nielsen’s streaming charts for the week (it premiered on New Year’s Day). The series had […]
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TV Ratings: NFL Championship Games Draw Huge Audiences
The second biggest NFL day of the year very much lived up to that moniker on Sunday. The primetime NFC Championship game averaged nearly 56.32 million viewers for Fox (a slight downward adjustment from the 56.69 million in early numbers). The audience peaked at almost 59 million viewers (58.97 million) from 9:15-9:30 p.m. ET, late […]
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‘Suits’ Sets Another Streaming Record for 2023: Biggest Year Ever
After a record-breaking run atop the streaming charts in the summer and fall, Suits can claim one more milestone at the end of 2023: It’s the most-streamed show over the course of a year in the (admittedly brief) history of Nielsen’s rankings. It was a huge year for library series — which claimed all of […]
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‘The Traitors’ Set to Break Into Nielsen Streaming Rankings
The Traitors is making the jump from word-of-mouth hit to quantified success. The Peacock unscripted series is set to make its first appearance on Nielsen’s streaming charts for the week of Jan. 15-21. The show had about 384 million minutes of viewing for that week, which encompasses the first four episodes of season two (three […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘Young Sheldon’ Stays at No. 1 as 2023 Ends
The final week of 2023 was another big one for Young Sheldon, as it claimed the top spot among acquired shows in Nielsen’s streaming rankings for a second straight week. Disney+ got more strong returns from Percy Jackson and the Olympians as well, ad Prime Video’s Reacher ascended to the top overall spot. Young Sheldon […]
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‘After Midnight’ Opening Week Ratings: #ThisIsFine
The first week of After Midnight on CBS brought in viewing numbers that are, well, about what would be expected for a network show airing at 12:37 a.m. in 2024. The show, an expanded and updated take on Comedy Central’s @midnight that’s hosted by Taylor Tomlinson, averaged 579,000 same-day viewers for its first three installments, […]
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TV Ratings: CBS Grabs Record Audience for NFL Divisional Playoff
CBS drew the largest audience on record for an NFL divisional playoff game with Sunday’s telecast of the Kansas City Chiefs’ win over the Buffalo Bills. The game averaged 50.39 million viewers, surpassing the previous divisional round high of 48.52 million for a 2017 game between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers (with the […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘Percy Jackson’ Gets Solid Start on Disney+
The streaming gods have smiled on Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The Disney+ series based on author Rick Riordan’s best-selling books opened to a good-sized audience in the week before Christmas. The first two episodes, which debuted the evening of Dec. 19, drew about 572 million minutes of watch time, according to Nielsen’s streaming ratings. […]
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TV Ratings: Emmys Fall to Another All-Time Low
Airing four months later than usual and on an especially crowded night of TV, the Emmy Awards drew their smallest audience ever. Fox’s broadcast averaged 4.46 million viewers in Nielsen’s final same-day ratings. That’s down about 25 percent from the previous low of 5.92 million for the 2022 Emmys, which aired on NBC. The awards […]
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TV Ratings: ‘True Detective’ Solid Opposite Big NFL Audience
The fourth season of True Detective opened to decent viewing on HBO Sunday, a day otherwise dominated by two NFL playoff games — including one that may hit a multi-year high for the wild card round on Fox. The Alaska-set True Detective: Night Country, starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, delivered 2 million viewers across HBO’s […]
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Peacock’s NFL Playoff Game Sets Streaming Record
Turns out plenty of people were able to figure out where to find Peacock in time for Saturday night’s NFL playoff game. The Kansas City Chiefs’ 26-7 win over the Miami Dolphins in the wild card round averaged 23 million viewers on Peacock, local NBC affiliates in the teams’ home markets and on the NFL+ […]
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