Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterNetflix’s “Bridgerton” was viewed for more than 2.5 billion minutes during the week of its Season 2 debut, according to Nielsen’s newly released streaming Top 10 rankings.The Chris Van Dusen-created period romance was easily the No.
1 program on streaming for the week of March 21-27 on Nielsen’s charts, even though only its first season was available for the majority of that week, as Season 2 premiered on March 25.
Nielsen does not breakdown its streaming data by season, so the 2.5 billion minutes tally counts viewership across all 16 episodes of “Bridgerton” Season 1 and 2 combined.Netflix’s “The Adam Project” came in a distant second with 1.19 billion minutes viewed during that period.
In third was new Netflix competition “Is It Cake?” (1.18 billion minutes), followed by “Turning Red” on Disney+ (977 million minutes) in fourth and Netflix’s “The Last Kingdom” in fifth (976 million minutes).
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