The third season premiere of Yellowjackets drew about 2 million viewers in its opening weekend — nearly all of them from streaming. The series gathered 2.03 million viewers worldwide in the three days after its Feb. […]
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Netflix‘s rom-com Nobody Wants This has cast Leighton Meester and Miles Fowler in its forthcoming second season. Both actors will be guest stars in season two, with Meester joining her real-life husband, Adam Brody, on […]
The success of The Night Agent is apparently not a one-season phenomenon. The Netflix thriller recorded its biggest week to date with the opening of its second season. The show amassed 3.11 billion minutes of […]
Mindy Kaling is adding another series to her portfolio. Hulu has placed a series order for Not Suitable for Work, a comedy about young professionals in New York. The show went into development at the […]
The golden anniversary celebration for Saturday Night Live brought in ratings gold as well. Sunday’s live SNL50: The Anniversary Special drew 14.8 million viewers on NBC and Peacock, based on Nielsen figures and internal numbers […]
The Chosen is getting a streaming home in the United States. As part of a wide-ranging deal with series creator Dallas Jenkins’ 5&2 Studios, Amazon’s Prime Video will become the exclusive U.S. streaming home to […]
The large subset of Super Bowl viewers who watched the game on Tubi came as a surprise to many — but not those within the streamer itself. “It was in line with what we thought […]
Jeremy Strong is going Nazi hunting. The Succession Emmy winner is set to star in a series adaptation of Ira Levin’s novel The Boys From Brazil at Netflix. The Crown creator Peter Morgan is adapting […]
It’s a pretty well-established fact that streaming has a sizable effect on ratings for shows that originate on broadcast networks. A new batch of data from Nielsen for this season shows just how big that […]
Squid Game dominated the streaming charts, though it cooled off a good amount in its third week at No. 1. Landman also peaked following its season finale, and American Primeval had a strong debut. For […]
Hulu has canceled its comedy series How to Die Alone after one season. The news comes about 4 1/2 months after the series, created by and starring Natasha Rothwell, wrapped its eight-episode season on the […]
Cue the Nerf Herder guitar riff: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot is in the offing. Hulu is developing a follow-up to the cult favorite series, with original star Sarah Michelle Gellar attached. The new […]
Netflix will close out its comic-book series The Sandman with the forthcoming second season. The streamer made the announcement on social media Friday, saying the second season — due sometime later this year — will […]
Paramount+’s Landman continued its upward trajectory in the first few days of 2025, hitting its best viewing-time mark so far in Nielsen’s streaming rankings. Squid Game had a second straight huge week for Netflix as […]
NBCUniversal’s celebration of Saturday Night Live‘s 50 years on the air continues to grow. Peacock announced Thursday that it will live stream a star-packed concert special celebrating SNL‘s musical legacy. Former castmember and current Tonight […]
The 19th century Ingalls family is getting a 21st century TV life. Netflix has ordered a Little House on the Prairie series, 40-plus years after a long-running adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved books aired […]
Apple TV+‘s limited series Lucky has added a second big name to its cast. Annette Bening will star opposite Anya Taylor-Joy in the drama, which is based on Marissa Stapley’s best-selling novel of the same […]
Apple TV+ has found the third star of its upcoming limited series Imperfect Women. Kate Mara has joined the drama based on Araminta Hall’s novel of the same name. Mara will star opposite Elisabeth Moss […]
Bluey was at the forefront of pop culture discourse for several weeks in the spring, as plenty of adult critics discussed how much the animated show meant to them. Its target audience probably didn’t read […]
The long-in-the-works thriller Happy Face will arrive on Paramount+ in the spring. The streamer has set a March 20 premiere date and released a teaser for the drama, which stars Annaleigh Ashford (B Positive, Masters […]
Christmas week brought a bounty of viewing to streaming platforms, with eight titles crossing the billion-minute mark in Nielsen’s streaming ratings. Netflix’s Squid Game, however, stood well apart from the pack. The Korean hit posted […]
The holiday season brought big gifts to several streaming platforms, with YouTube, Netflix and Prime Video all hitting or tying their best mark ever in Nielsen‘s monthly snapshot of TV use. The ratings service’s December […]
Frasier Crane will once again be looking for a new home. Paramount+ says it won’t go ahead with a third season of Frasier, its revival of the Must See TV-era NBC comedy starring Kelsey Grammer. […]
The Traitors is becoming more than just a cult favorite. The competition series opened its third season with its largest viewing numbers to date: It registered 499 million minutes of viewing on Peacock for the […]
Disney has found a new head of comedy programming for ABC and Hulu. Suzanna Makkos is joining the Mouse House after six years at Max and Adult Swim. She’ll be head of comedy for ABC […]
Prime Video will become a Green space — as in Tom Green — in late January. The Amazon-owned streaming platform will debut three separate projects later this month featuring the comedian and 1990s MTV star. […]
Amazon’s Prime Video drew its biggest NFL audience to date with a wild card playoff game — although it didn’t quite match past streaming-exclusive matchups. As a whole, the opening weekend of the playoffs is […]
Prime Video’s Red One and Netflix’s Carry-On both had big opening weeks in streaming, with Red One coming out on top in Nielsen’s charts. Christmas-themed action comedy Red One, which the Amazon streamer touted as […]
The streaming premiere of WWE Monday Night Raw brought in a sizable audience for Netflix — at least in the United States. Ratings figures from VideoAmp show Raw averaging 2.6 million households for its first […]
Kelly Campbell, who has headed NBCUniversal‘s streamer Peacock for the past three-plus years, is leaving the company. Campbell’s departure comes about six weeks after NBCU parent Comcast announced that it would look to spin off […]
Netflix’s conspiracy thriller The Madness stayed atop the U.S. streaming charts in the first week of December. The series starring Colman Domingo grabbed 1.48 billion minutes of viewing time for the week of Dec. 2-8, […]
The first season of Squid Game is the biggest show in Netflix‘s history. Season two is shaping up to be just as huge. The Korean hit drew a record-high number of views over its opening […]
Some facts about what people watched in 2024: A little blue dog was the biggest star in the streaming world; the most watched cable series in years took a final bow — at least in […]
One of Netflix‘s last original movies releases of 2024 is shaping up to be one of its biggest — and not just for the calendar year. Carry-On, a thriller starring Taron Egerton, Jason Bateman and […]
The first NFL games on Netflix brought in big audiences for the streamer — and the biggest ever for a streaming NFL matchup. But they came up short of the audience for last year’s Yuletide […]
Members of The Animation Guild have voted to accept their new contract with studios and streamers. Per the guild, 76.1 percent of voting members chose to accept the deal, which covers 2024-27 and includes wage […]
Netflix has released a teaser for its limited series Zero Day, starring Robert De Niro in his first regular series role. The thriller features De Niro as George Mullen, a former president who, in the […]
The week of Nov. 18-24 was a good one to premiere a streaming show with “man” in the title. Netflix’s A Man on the Inside and Paramount+’s Landman both ranked among the top five original […]
Peacock has lined up the two leads for its limited series The Good Daughter. Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy will lead the drama, which is based on a novel by Karin Slaughter (who is also […]
Hulu is going deeper into the tangled web of Tell Me Lies. The streamer has ordered a third season of Tell Me Lies, which follows the twisted/toxic romance between two people (Grace Van Patten and […]
There will be no season four for Girls5Eva: Netflix has canceled the comedy after its first season on the platform and third overall. The cancellation marks the end for Girls5Eva after it got a second […]
Ted Danson is going back on the case for Netflix. The streamer has ordered a second season of A Man on the Inside, a comedy series starring Danson as Charles, a widower who, in the […]
Apple TV+ is renewing its sci-fi drama Silo for two more seasons — enough, it says, to bring the show to a conclusion. The series, based on a trilogy of novels by Hugh Howey, is midway […]
There’s now a second place find the residents of Stars Hollow. As of midnight PT Sunday, Gilmore Girls is available to stream on Hulu. The erstwhile WB/CW series about a mother and daughter (Lauren Graham […]