Per Nielsen: Last News

Reacher continued its latest Nielsen reign with another 1.4B minutes viewed from March 3 to 9, spending a second consecutive week at No. 1 following the release of Season 3.

Netflix can now lay claim to yet another Nielsen streaming record, this time for Love Is Blind.

Political thrillers are all the rage right now, as illustrated by the Nielsen streaming charts for the week of February 17 to 23, where Zero Day, Reacher, The Night Agent and Paradise all appeared in the rankings.

Selome Hailu Tubi, the free ad-supported streamer owned by Fox, continues to grow in popularity, as evidenced by data about Super Bowl viewership published in Nielsen‘s monthly Gauge report. Nielsen says that the Super Bowl, which aired on Fox this year, led Feb. 9 to become the second-most watched day of television since the measurement began aggregating monthly viewing reports in March of 2021 with more than 110 billion minutes watched.

Selome Hailu “Marvel’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends” has been renewed for a fifth season by Disney Branded Television. The news comes as Season 3 airs on Disney Jr. and ahead of Season 4’s summer debut.

Selome Hailu “Suits” is off to a slow start as it returns to television. “Suits LA,” NBC‘s new spinoff of the hit USA Network series, debuted with 2.6 million viewers on Sunday night. Out of four new drama series on the network’s lineup this season, the premiere viewership of “Suits LA” ranked in third, per Live + Same Day data from Nielsen: “Brilliant Minds” came to NBC with 3.9 million viewers on Monday, Sept.

Saturday night’s NFL Wild Card game set multiple records for Prime Video after what was already the streamer’s best regular season yet.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Approximately 42.3 million viewers tuned in to primetime coverage of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election on Tuesday night, according to Nielsen data. The overall rating for the night was a 13.3, with approximately 28.45 million households.

Ethan Shanfeld Amazon Prime Video benefited significantly from the launch of the NFL season, with the streamer matching its best-ever share of overall TV viewership in September. Per Nielsen data, Amazon received a 12% bump in streaming viewership from August, leading the streamer to match its platform-best share of overall TV viewership of 3.6%. The increase was driven largely by “Thursday Night Football” as well as the debut of Season 2 of “The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power,” which was this month’s third most watched streaming title with 4.3 billion viewing minutes.

Zachary Quinto, the star of NBC‘s new medical procedural Brilliant Minds (previously titled Dr. Wolf), said he was initially hesitant to return to network television, especially given its contractual basis. However, the Heroes actor signed on to the series, citing a changing dynamic between streaming and network models.

House of the Dragon reigned over the Nielsen streaming charts from July 8 to 14, but it looks like Love Island is the real winner here.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Food Network has renewed “24 in 24: Last Chef Standing” for Season 2 ahead of the new primetime competition’s first season finale. Hosted by Esther Choi and Michael Symon, “24 in 24: Last Chef Standing” follows 24 talented and fearless chefs who take on 24 food challenges in 24 consecutive, non-stop hours, per Food Network’s description for the series.

CBS had a good premiere week.

Anna Marie de la Fuente In an exclusive interview with Variety, Ronald Day, Telemundo’s president of entertainment & content strategy, drilled down on what has made action-packed series “Lord of the Skies” (“El Señor de los cielos”), the company’s longest-running Super Series franchise and a bonafide hit. With Season 9 set to premiere Feb.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Traditionally a strong performer in the fall and holiday TV season, Food Network is sizzling this summer, too. From Memorial Day on May 27 through July 20, Food Network content has drawn more than 50.6 million total viewers across the linear TV channel, as well as Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streamers Max and Discovery+.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer TLC’s “Sister Wives” returned Sunday, drawing the show’s highest-rated season premiere in six years with the first episode of Season 11. Per Nielsen data, the reality show’s 11th season premiere averaged 2.2 million total viewers and a 1.42 rating among women ages 18-49, the advertiser-coveted demographic for the cable channel. That demo rating was the highest for a “Sister Wives” premiere in six years. Additionally, Episode 1 of Season 11 drew a 1.91 rating among women ages 25-54, another key market for the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned TLC. According to TLC, on the “Sister Wives” Season 11 premiere night Sunday, “tweet volume saw triple digit growth compared to the previous premiere,” growing 192%). It was also the top primetime cable reality program on Facebook, No. 3 on Instagram and No. 4 on Twitter for social interactions.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer As a Sunday night series, the first episode of “House of the Dragon” was only available for streaming during the final three hours of Nielsen’s window for calculating its weekly SVOD ratings for Aug. 15-21. But in that brief period of time, the “Game of Thrones” prequel managed to be watched for 327 million minutes via HBO Max, according to the ratings currency company’s new rankings. “House of the Dragon” premiered Sunday, Aug. 21 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and was immediately available for streaming on HBO Max at that time. The Nielsen-provided figure here only counts streaming viewership, meaning anyone who watched “House of the Dragon” via HBO’s linear channel or any other platform is not included in the count.

Selome Hailu Viewership of “House of the Dragon” increased by 5% between Episodes 3 and 4, Variety has learned exclusively. Per Nielsen, linear viewing of the series remained mostly steady, with 2.536 million viewers across four cable airings for the week-ago episode compared to 2.474 million this Sunday. But with streaming on HBO Max and other HBO platforms included, Variety has confirmed overall U.S. viewership of the series is up 5% week over week. Titled “King of the Narrow Sea,” Episode 4 premiered on Sunday night as NBC was airing Week 1 of Sunday Night Football. The programs will air concurrently for the rest of Season 1’s run. Additionally, “House of the Dragon” slightly competes for linear viewership with a show on its own network: “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” returned to HBO on Sunday night after two weeks off the air, shifting the timing of Episode 4’s repeat airings to later timeslots.

Viewership of streaming programming surpassed that of cable TV for the first time in July, Nielsen reported.

The CW was only founded 16 years ago, and throughout that short life, it’s been known as both the youngest broadcaster and the broadcaster with the youngest audience. That’s why when Nexstar COO and president Tom Carter stated during a conference call Monday that the average viewer of the network, which is being acquired by the TV station group giant, is 58 years old, the internet had a hard time swallowing the stat.How is it possible that the average viewer of the home of YA-centric content like “Riverdale,” “All American,” “Walker” and “The Flash” is in their late 50s?But as Variety has independently confirmed with measurements from Nielsen, the Nexstar exec was correct: the median age for the CW’s primetime viewer throughout the 2021 calendar year was 57.4, according to Live + 7 Day data.

EXCLUSIVE: Eddie Murphy is set to star in Candy Cane Lane, a Reginald Hudlin-directed holiday comedy for Prime Video. Produced by Amazon Studios, Imagine Entertainment, and Eddie Murphy Productions, the comedy was acquired as a spec script written by Kelly Younger and inspired by Younger’s childhood holiday experiences. Production begins this winter in Los Angeles.