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It’s been quite a long time since any streaming titles popped the way that Squid Game did with the debut of Season 2. Nielsen says that the Netflix series racked up more than 4B (4.6B to be exact) viewing minutes for the second consecutive week from December 30 to January 5, which is a feat not…

Fox News topped the ratings in January, posting big gains from a year earlier, while MSNBC saw signs that viewers were coming back after a post-election tune-out. In primetime, Fox News averaged 2.78 million viewers, up 40% from the same month a year earlier, while MSNBC averaged 734,000, down…

A Super Bowl rematch between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles is around the corner after this weekend’s conference title games — one of which set an audience record while the other underperformed fairly significantly. Nearly 58M people tuned in to CBS to watch the Kansas City…

The Night Agent is back on top among Netflix series. The second season of the action series racked up 13.9M views in its first few days on the streamer, putting it at No. 1 on the English-language TV list from March 20 to 26. This is a solid start for the latest installment, although it is down…

It should come as no surprise that Squid Game dominated streaming following the Season 2 debut, but Nielsen’s latest streaming report reveals that it actually set a record for a single week of viewership last year. From December 23 to 29, Squid Game amassed a whopping 4.9B minutes viewed…

Ohio State has another National Championship under its belt, and 22.1M people tuned in to watch the Buckeyes defeat Notre Dame for the title on Monday. That’s a pretty strong number, even though it is down from last year’s 24.3M. According to ESPN, this year’s matchup peaked from 8:30 to 8:45…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox delivered its best series debut in five years with the launch of its new medical drama Doc. The premiere episode has now amassed 15.6M cross-platform viewers in its first 11 days, according to the network, representing an impressive 609% increase over its live + same-day audience…

TV production was still down last year, albeit decreasing at a slower rate than the year prior, down 7% from 2023, as the entertainment industry continues to find its footing after a couple of rough years, according to a new report from Luminate. Luminate’s 2024 year-end analysis, which…

UPDATED with final numbers: Donald Trump drew fewer viewers to his second inauguration than to his first, as well as to Joe Biden’s four years ago. According to Nielsen on Tuesday, the inauguration drew 24.59 million viewers, compared to 33.76 million for Biden’s 2021 inauguration and 30.64…

Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz were this week’s big winners on Netflix, as their new film Back in Action was the most-watched title from January 13 to 19 with a whopping 46.8M views. The spy flick knocked Secret Life of Pets 2 from the top spot on the English films list, but both that animated…

EXCLUSIVE: With American Primeval, Eric Newman now has six Netflix hits under his belt. The western miniseries was the most-watched TV series on the streamer last week with 14.3M views from January 13 to 19, up from 10.4M in the first few days post-debut. That’s the Narcos executive producer and…

Tim Allen comedies are still a big draw, apparently, because the premiere of his latest series Shifting Gears has set an audience record for ABC. In the seven days since it debuted on January 8, the first episode has amassed nearly 17M multi-platform viewers across ABC, Hulu, Hulu on Disney+ and…