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Audiences flocked to a healthy mix of streaming original content and familiar, older titles during Thanksgiving week. Nielsen’s latest streaming report, which was delayed due to the holidays, puts Netflix’s The Madness at the top of the charts with 1.3B minutes viewed from November 25 to December 1…

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest saw a year-over-year audience decline on Tuesday night but still managed to ring in 2025 with a ratings win as the most-watched of the televised NYE bashes. The annual special on ABC averaged 7.9M viewers in primetime from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m…

EXCLUSIVE: E! News saw some impressive growth in 2024 with 11B views across all digital and social content — up 50% from the year prior. The success was led by Instagram, which was up 49% to 5.6B video views, according to internal data from NBCUniversal. Its sister platform Facebook saw the largest…

Spoiler alert: This article mentions details from last night’s episode of The Traitors UK. The Traitors UK smashed its record rating for an opening ep last night, luring in more than 5M viewers. The show peaked with 5.4M, close to its best ever performance which was the finale of last season…

The past year, 2024, was supposed to be a big audience uplift for major cable news networks: a presidential election, with proven ratings-getter Donald Trump as one of the major players. While Fox News, MSNBC and CNN did see a rise in ratings, the latter two networks saw big post-election drop-offs…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix pulled out all the stops for the launch of Squid Game Season 2, and it appears to have paid off. The highly anticipated seven-episode second season, which launched on December 26, raked in 68M views in its first three days on the streamer. It was No. 1 on the weekly non-English TV…

UPDATED: As expected, Netflix boasted quite an impressive audience for its two Christmas Day NFL matchups. The Chiefs-Steelers and Ravens-Texans games, the first-ever NFL games on the streamer, put up an unduplicated audience of nearly 65 million U.S. viewers on December 25, according to Live+Same…

The BBC took its domination of the Christmas Day UK TV ratings into Boxing Day with Call the Midwife and Outnumbered topping the charts. The Christmas specials of the long-running BBC shows both peaked with around 4M viewers, placing them first and second on the Boxing Day list. The ratings…

While LeBron James is one-half of a long-discussed debate about the greatest of all time, there’s no question that the NBA’s Yuletide matchup between the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors delivered — ratings- and thrill-wise. Per the league, the game was the most-watched NBA Regular Season and…

UPDATED: Ratings update from the ranch: Live+3 results reveal that the Season 5B Yellowstone finale, with 13.1 million total viewers, was the most-watched episode in the series’ history. It was also was the most-watched season in series history with 13.6 million average viewers. It was up 3% versus…

Dexter: Original Sin seems like it’s off to a killer start. The series premiere racked up 2.1M global viewers across Paramount+ and Showtime in the first three days of availability, according to Paramount Global. The company also says it Showtime’s most-streamed premiere ever, although it didn’t…

Saturday Night’s Main Event returned to strong audience ratings over the weekend. The WWE’s two-hour showdown brought in 2.3M viewers on NBC and Peacock. As expected, a majority of the audience came from the broadcaster, while about 700,000 tuned in via streaming. This is the first Saturday Night…