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The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade drew its largest audience ever this year, according to NBCUniversal. The 98th annual event amassed 31.3M viewers Thursday across linear and digital platforms, which is up 10% from last year’s 28.5M, the company said. About 24M tuned in on NBC alone during the…

The Dancing with the Stars Season 33 finale lit up ABC with the show’s best audience in four years. According to Nielsen, 6.36 million people tuned in to watch Joey Graziadei and Jenna Johnson take home the mirrorball trophy Tuesday night, which is the highest Live+Same Day total for Dancing with the…

Netflix debuted yet another holiday rom-com last week, which audiences quickly boosted to the top of the English films list.  The Merry Gentlemen, starring Chad Michael Murray and Britt Robertson, amassed 14.7M views from November 18 to 24, making it the most-watched title of the week. In fact…

EXCLUSIVE: Dancing with the Stars Season 33 sashayed its way to a ratings win ahead of the finale. Audiences are clearly chomping at the bit to see which of the five remaining stars will take home this year’s mirrorball trophy, because Tuesday night’s semifinals grew over the 500th episode…

EXCLUSIVE: The Taylor Sheridan universe continues to expand at Paramount with Sunday’s promising launch of Landman. The series, which dramatizes the oil boom in the heart of west Texas, delivered 5.2M cross-platform same-day viewers, according to Paramount Global. The company says that, on…

Yellowstone Season 5B debut is now the show’s biggest launch to date. According to Paramount Global, the premiere episode amassed more than 21M viewers in the three days post-debut, up 29% from its live + same-day audience, to be the best premiere night ever in the U.S. for…

Harry Potter: Wizards Of Baking has cooked up some solid numbers at Warner Bros. Discovery. The competition series, which Deadline revealed back in May, premiered on November 14 on Food Network and Max. It scored a 0.57 rating in the 25-54 demo and a 0.74 across women in the same bracket, more than…

Dune: Prophecy is off to a strong start as the premiere episode tallied 1.2M cross-platform U.S. viewers on Sunday, according to Warner Bros. Discovery. The episode grew another 75% in the day after it debuted, bringing the total audience thus far to 2.1M viewers, the company says. That’s a…

The Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight was a knockout win for Netflix, racking up 46.6M views through Sunday night to easily make it the streamer’s most-watched program of the week. Despite the technical issues, the fight was clearly a mega-event for Netflix, leagues above any other title on the platform…

EXCLUSIVE: Abbott Elementary is still best in class in its fourth season. The November 6 episode, which saw Gregory diffusing some tension with a parent and Melissa dealing with an injury, has amassed 6.33M cross-platform viewers in seven days of viewing, Disney says. That’s up 210% from the…

Squid Game became Netflix's most-watched series ever when it launched in September 2021 with more than 111M accounts tuning in to watch 1.65B hours in its first four weeks. This has set expectations high for the second season, which premieres on December 26, 2024. Netflix's Chief Content Officer…

St. Denis Medical growing its audience in the week since it premiered on NBC, with the first episode up to 7.4M cross-platform viewers. That’s an 85% increase over the 4M that Nielsen reported live + same-day. The workplace comedy launched on NBC with two back-to-back episodes. NBCUniversal did…