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Netflix’s Season 2 of Bridgerton was streaming’s most-watched title for the week of April 28-March 3, according to Nielsen’s rankings, with a total of 3.2 billion minutes viewed during the week actually growing from its debut performance the week before. Nielsen’s streaming rankings are based on minutes viewed via TV…

CBS dominated Wednesday with Survivor winning not just the most viewers of the evening, but the highest rating as well. Chicago Fire, which typically makes a mark on Wednesday, was in repeats along with the rest of NBC’s Chicago slate. The latest Survivor brought in a 0.8 rating in the 18-49 demo and 5.48 million…

The NBC limited series The Thing About Pam, starring Renée Zellweger, concluded its run on Tuesday, April 13, but has clearly made its mark for the network as its top-rated new series of the 2021-2022 season. The show centers on the 2011 murder of State Farm employee Betsy Faria, which resulted in her husband Russ's…

A week after ABC saw the end of an era with the black-ish finale, the network’s latest Tuesday primetime lineup featured the season enders for Judge Steve Harvey and Truth Be Told. Those two titles came to a close while NBC’s This Is Us and CBS’ FBI each snatched another primetime win. In fast nationals, This Is Us…

ISpot.tv, a leading challenger to Nielsen for supremacy in the increasingly fraught TV and streaming ratings business, has received a $325 million investment from Goldman Sachs. Since its founding in 2012, iSpot has raised $58 million. In announcing the new influx of money, the company said it is generating more than…

Fox News again topped the cable news ratings for April, as its total day audience and primetime audience grew while other news networks saw erosion. Fox News averaged 1.52 million total viewers during the month, up 25% compared to the same month in 2021, compared to 668,000 for MSNBC, down 30%, and 582,000 for CNN…

EXCLUSIVE: After nearly two seasons heavily struck by the pandemic, RuPaul’s Drag Race concluded its fourteenth season with an in-person finale extravaganza held at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Despite the return to the showy Drag Race pomp and circumstance, the Season 14 finale couldn’t quite match up to Season…

ABC, CBS and Fox found themselves in yet another ratings tie on Monday night. The three networks’ highest-rated titles –ABC’s American Idol, CBS’ The Price Is Right at Night and Fox’s 9-1-1 series – all brought in a 0.6 rating for the 18-49 demo in fast affiliates, marking the third consecutive Monday tie between the t…

Sunday marked was another winning night for CBS and ABC as the two dominated primetime with new episodes of 60 Minutes and American Idol, respectively. According to fast nationals, American Idol won the night’s highest rating and 60 Minutes, Sunday’s largest audience. CBS’ news delivered a 0.5 rating in the 18-49 demo…

TV fans preferred whooping to hooping early on Friday night. But that old crime story standby, the “Damsel in Distress,” also brought in the eyeballs later in the evening. Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown topped the NBA Playoffs in the demo wars, coming in with an 0.4 to edge out  basketball’s 0.3 for ABC. The…

CBS owned Thursday night, delivering both the highest-rated and most-watched primetime titles with Young Sheldon and Ghosts. The CBS comedies tied with one another for the top demo rating, both earning a 0.5 in the 18-49 demo. Young Sheldon, stable from the previous week, also brought in the largest audience with 7.04…

Netflix’s second-season premiere of Bridgerton was watched for a total of more than 2.5 billion minutes in its debut week, Nielsen reported Thursday, doubling up all others in the streaming world for the week of March 21-27. Season 2 of the Shondaland-produced Regency-era drama series, which premiered March 25, has alr…