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Network news divisions still count the end of the third week of September as the end of their season, and while that may be a bit of linear TV throwback, it’s a chance to get a snapshot of where things stand audience wise. ABC News’ World News Tonight continued its winning streak as the most-watched…

Gamers definitely wanted to check out what Ryan Seacrest had to offer on Wheel of Fortune. The syndicated show averaged 8.31 million viewers during its premiere week ending September 15 — its largest premiere week audience in five years, according to Nielsen results. Seacrest’s first episode as…

Rescue: HI-Surf is off to a strong start for Fox. The lifeguard drama debuted to 4.7M viewers on Sunday night, according to live + same-day data from Nielsen. The premiere episode also managed a 1.1 rating among adults 18-49, which is quite impressive as scripted broadcast series rarely perform…

The debut of The Penguin captured fans worldwide — at least, that’s what Max is saying. The streamer says the new Colin Farrell series landed the biggest 4-day audience for a new series on Max in every region globally, since The Last of Us in Jan 2023.  In the U.S., the series debut of the HBO…

All hail Kathy Bates. The Oscar-winning veteran’s return to broadcast TV with CBS’ Matlock delivered Live+Same Day linear viewership numbers we rarely see anymore. The “sneak peak” premiere of Jennie Snyder Uraman’s reimagening of the Andy Griffith classic with Bates as the eponymous attorney averaged…

NBC has once again triumphed in the ratings over the 52-week season thanks to its coverage of the Paris Olympics and trusted summer hit America's Got Talent. The network won the 2023-24 season in both total viewers and the 18-49 demo for all programs.  This is not unusual as the network has…

CBS came out on top in Week 2 of the NFL season, likely thanks in part to the Kansas City Chiefs, whose narrow victory over the Cincinnati Bengals drew 27.87M viewers on Sunday. Not only was that the most-watched game of the week, it’s the largest Week 2 NFL audience in decades, up 8% versus CBS…

Being on a global, well distributed streaming platform like Netflix did not give the SAG Awards a viewership bump. Since the Feb. 24 awards show did not make Netflix’s Feb. 19-25 weekly Top 10 list, we knew the ceremony drew fewer than 2.1M views in the first 24 hours but its exact delivery was unknown…

AMC is the latest to benefit from the Netflix effect, with A Discovery of Witches and Dark Winds jumping onto the Nielsen charts in the week the series debuted on the streamer. Dark Winds tallied 929M minutes viewed from August 19 to August 25 with a strong concentration among the 50+ audience…

In a clear sign of the times, more competitors have been licensing content to Netflix in the past year or so, including Showtime, which handed Your Honor and Dexter over this summer. Netflix’s latest edition of What We’re Watching, which pulls back the curtain on viewership for all of its titles…

Ryan Murphy’s new ABC medical drama Doctor Odyssey starring Joshua Jackson and Don Johnson is headed for the record books with its trailer logging 77.8 million views within its first 48 hours of release. The total makes this the most-watched trailer for a new broadcast TV show ever. The prior record was…

Netflix’s latest data dump has given more insight into its decision-making process when it comes to renewals and cancellations. While the streamer has always said those decisions come down to performance vs. cost, its third What We Watched report is beginning to crystallize what some of the…