Nielsen: Last News

Ghosts and So Help Me Todd both reached series high viewership on Thursday, helping earn CBS the top spot among the broadcast networks during primetime.

Netflix once again claimed the most titles among the Top 10 programs on Nielsen’s U.S. streaming chart for the week of January 2 to January 8. Ginny & Georgia, which debuted its second season on January 5, sat in the No. 1 spot with 2.5B viewing minutes.

Amazon said today its revenue rose 9% to $149 billion for the fourth quarter, beating forecasts, on a big drop in net income. The commerce and cloud giant gave a big shout-out to its entertainment business from The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power to Thursday Night Football.

Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury has renewed hit game show Family Feud through the 2025-26 season, taking the Fremantle-produced show into its landmark 50th year on television. Leading station groups Fox, CBS, Nexstar, Scripps and Tegna have signed multi-year renewals for the nationally syndicated ratings juggernaut, hosted by Steve Harvey.

Fox News continued to dominate in the January cable news ratings, drawing more viewers, on average, than the combined audience of rivals MSNBC and CNN.

Oliver Abildgaard has had his Celtic loan cancelled – and signed for Hellas Verona for the rest of this season.

The Last of Us doesn’t look like it’ll be losing steam any time soon. On Sunday, 6.4M people tuned in to watch the third episode of the post-apocalyptic series across HBO and HBO Max, according to Nielsen and first party data. 

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is breaking Nielsen streaming records in the U.S. The film became the most-streamed movie in a measurement week from December 26 to January 1 (its first full week on Netflix), surpassing Hocus Pocus 2 and Wonder Woman 1984.

Dateline will be back for its seventh season in national broadcast syndication. NBCUniversal Syndication Studios announced Thursday that it has renewed the popular newsmagazine show with the NBC Owned Television Stations Group.

The results are in, and Netflix undoubtedly dominated the Nielsen U.S. streaming charts for 2022, led by originals including Stranger Things, Wednesday and Ozark — as well as acquisitions like Cocomelon and NCIS.

Aubrey Plaza's hosting stint on this week's Saturday Night Live garnered the NBC show its highest ratings of the season in the key demographic of people 18-49.The January 21 edition hosted by the 38-year-old actress, who hosted with Sam Smith, 30, as musical guest, garnered a 0.98 rating, marking the show's most-viewed episode of the season in the key demo, Deadline reported.The episode hosted by the actress - who has garnered breakout buzz for her work on season two of HBO's The White Lotus - racked up 4.8M total viewers, according to Nielsen. The latest: Aubrey Plaza's hosting stint on this week's Saturday Night Live garnered the NBC show its highest ratings of the season in the key demographic of people 18-49The episode marked the comedy's second-highest rated episode of its 48th season, behind the December 10 episode hosted by Steve Martin and Martin Short, which drew 5.1 million viewers.This past week's episode also reflected a 30 percent spike in the demo and 13 percent increase from the show's average in the fourth quarter timeframe.

Aubrey Plaza and Sam Smith laughed up a ratings record for Season 48 of Saturday Night Live.

Disney Advertising and measurement firm EDO, whose co-founder and chairman is the actor and director Edward Norton, have expanded their relationship into the streaming realm.

Howard Gordon’s return to Fox has proved to be fruitful for the network. The premiere episode of his latest crime drama Accused has managed the highest-rated and most-watched debut across broadcast and cable in the last three years.

EXCLUSIVE: Nielsen, the audience measurement, data and analytics organization unveiled today the findings of their case studies on Native content at a panel discussion in the Indigenous House at Sundance Film Festival, presented by , the Native woman-led social justice organization dedicated to building visibility and representation for Native peoples. 

In a very expected turn of events, Netflix’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery debuted atop Nielsen’s U.S. streaming charts for the week of December 19 to December 25.

Prepare yourself for more crossovers, NCIS fans, because the latest one didn’t do half-bad for CBS.

The two-episode premiere of Night Court ushered in some impressive ratings for NBC.

The Critics Choice Awards aired Sunday night without much fanfare. The CW’s broadcast of the 28th annual ceremony drew just 900,000 viewers, according to early Nielsen numbers.

For the second week in a row, CBS‘ So Help Me Todd hit a series viewership high. After returning with its midseason premiere last week, the first year comedy series reached 4.82M viewers on Thursday, according to early live+same-day Nielsen data.

Data and measurement firm Samba TV is offloading its media sales business to UK firm MiQ in order to clarify its strategic focus at a time when Nielsen’s struggles have opened the door to new competitors.