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Netflix has made some big changes to the way it reports streaming viewership. The streamer will now report in average viewership for its programming as “views,” which is hours viewed divided by total runtime. While hours viewed will still be available, Netflix will now use this new metric for its Top…

Audiences spent more time streaming in May, while broadcast and cable viewership took a bit of a nosedive, according to Nielsen’s monthly state of TV report, The Gauge. Total TV usage was down about 4.4% versus April, declining for the fourth consecutive month. While Nielsen reports that this is…

EXCLUSIVE: Cruel Summer has made a splashy return to Freeform, with the Season 2 premiere marking the network’s top telecast in two years — since the Season 1 finale of the hit series in June 2021. After seven days of delayed viewing, the Season 2 premiere drummed up 2.6M viewers across linear and…

Ted Lasso is moving its way up the Nielsen streaming charts. As the Season 3 finale (and potential series finale) approached, the Apple TV+ series made its way to No. 4 on Nielsen’s overall Top 10 list for the week of May 15 to May 21 with 769M minutes viewed. That marks its highest ranking on the…

It’s a tough time for live sports. Both the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup Finals ended this week with historically low viewership across each five-game series. On Tuesday night, the Vegas Golden Knights took home the Stanley Cup in Game 5 of the NHL Finals, winning a fourth match against the…

EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4’s television audience sunk to a record low in May amid a painful period for the British broadcaster, which is cutting costs as it navigates a cratering ad market. Channel 4’s main network audience share stood at 4.48% last month, which is said to be the worst four-week period in…

Fox News edged out MSNBC in total viewers and a key demographic in total day and primetime on Tuesday, when Donald Trump’s arraignment in Miami dominated coverage. MSNBC’s coverage of the hearing itself — including Trump’s trek to the Miami courthouse, arrest and not guilty plea during the 2 p.m. ET…

Donald Trump’s indictment on federal charges last week helped propel MSNBC to a weekly ratings win in primetime. The network averaged 1.52 million viewers in primetime (Monday through Sunday), compared to 1.5 million for Fox News. That ended a 120-week winning streak for Fox News. CNN averaged…

Fans are saying farewell to Manifest and Never Have I Ever. For the week of June 5 to June 11, the series dominated Netflix’s English-language series list. Manifest as Season 4, Part 2 took the top spot with 78.15M hours viewed in the week after it debuted on June 2. The enthusiasm surrounding the…

The buzz surrounding HBO’s controversial new series The Idol might just be working to its benefit. Episode 2 aired on Sunday night, drawing about 800,000 total viewers across Max and linear HBO telecasts. That’s a slight dip from last week’s premiere audience of 913,000. According to HBO, viewing…

The 76th annual Tony Awards managed to persevere on Sunday despite the ongoing writers strike, drawing a three-year high of 4.31M viewers. The three-hour telecast, which almost didn’t happen due to the strike, aired live on CBS coast-to-coast for the second year in a row and streaming on Paramount+…

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story continued its reign over Nielsen’s streaming charts from May 8 to May 14, but Jennifer Lopez’s The Mother gave it a run for its money. In its second week on Netflix, the Bridgerton prequel series raked in 1.9B minutes viewed. Viewership was even with the week…