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 […]
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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 […]
Malcom is getting back in the middle. Disney+ has ordered a short-run revival of Malcolm in the Middle with original stars Frankie Muniz — who played the title character — Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek. Series creator […]
The opening week of Cross was a big one for Prime Video. The Amazon-owned streamer claimed the No. 1 overall spot on Nielsen’s streaming charts for Nov. 11-17 as Cross drew 1.36 billion minutes of […]
A potential reboot of Friday Night Lights is staying within the NBCUniversal family. Peacock has won a bidding war for the project, which is now in development at the NBCU-owned streamer. Universal Television, which produced […]
Ahead of Saturday Night Live‘s 50th anniversary celebration in February, Peacock will take a deeper dive into the show’s five decades of history. The NBCUniversal-owned platform will stream SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, a four-part series […]
The presidential election and the conclusion of the World Series helped drive overall TV use to a nine-month high in November. But despite those big events on linear TV platforms, both cable and broadcast outlets […]
After a week off the charts, Netflix’s Outer Banks returned to the streaming rankings — shooting to No. 1 overall with the release of its latest batch of episodes. The YA drama brought in 1.23 billion […]
It’s not TV, it’s … Max. Warner Bros. Discovery is putting the HBO back into its streaming service (formerly known as HBO Max), adding live streaming of HBO’s cable channels to the Max platform. The […]
Peacock will return to Bel-Air for one last time. The NBCUniversal-owned streamer has renewed Bel-Air — a dramatic take on Will Smith’s 1990s NBC comedy The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air — for a fourth and final […]
The season finale of Agatha All Along helped push the Marvel series to its best showing in the Nielsen streaming rankings. The Kathryn Hahn-led show tallied 744 million minutes of viewing on Disney+ for the […]
Apple TV+ won’t release its Jon Hamm-led drama Your Friends & Neighbors for several months, but it’s ready to get going on a second season of the series. The streamer has renewed the drama for […]
The Day of the Jackal will go on for more days at Peacock and Sky. The NBCUniversal-owned streamer and U.K. broadcaster Sky have renewed The Day of the Jackal, a thriller starring Eddie Redmayne and […]
Streaming viewers in the week of Oct. 21-27 made the following decision: We have to go back. Viewing of Lost on Hulu and Netflix hit a high that week, finishing first among all acquired series […]
Chalk up another strong series debut for Taylor Sheridan: The showrunner’s drama Landman brought in a sizable audience for its Nov. 17 premiere. The series opener accumulated 5.2 million viewers on Paramount+ and Paramount Network, […]
Fox Entertainment and Hulu are keeping their mutually beneficial streaming arrangement in place. The network and the Disney-owned streaming service have signed a new, multi-year content partnership deal. Under the agreement, Fox’s primetime entertainment shows […]
Peacock‘s forthcoming Office-world comedy series is continuing to build out its cast. Seven actors — Duane Shepard Sr. (The People vs. O.J. Simpson), Allan Havey (Billions, Mad Men), Nate Jackson (Young Rock), comedian Mo Welch, Nancy Lenehan (The Boys, Veep), Molly Ephraim (A League […]
Netflix’s The Night Agent is looking to boost its ranks. Genesis Rodriguez (Lioness) is in talks to join the espionage drama for its third season. Netflix has already greenlit a third installment of one of […]
Netflix is claiming a nine-figure global audience for its Nov. 15 boxing spectacle between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. The streamer says 108 million people worldwide watched social media star-turned-boxer Paul beat the 58-year-old former […]
The third season premiere of The Lincoln Lawyer moved the show to the top of the streaming docket. The Netflix drama based on Michael Connelly’s novels recorded 1.64 billion viewing minutes for the week of […]
Lady Gaga is set to appear in Netflix’s Wednesday in its forthcoming second season. The Oscar and Grammy winner will have a role in the Netflix hit, which is in production in Ireland. Details on […]
Hulu is heading back to court with Reasonable Doubt. The Disney-owned streamer has renewed the series for a third season. The pickup comes about four weeks after Reasonable Doubt concluded its second season. Following the […]
Netflix is aging up its dating-show demographic. The streamer has released a trailer for an unscripted series called The Later Daters, which follows six baby boomers (ranging in age from 56 to 71) as they […]
The first quarter of 2025 will bring some familiar names and faces to ABC — both from the network’s own roster and that of its Disney sibling Hulu. ABC’s midseason lineup includes several Hulu series that […]
Netflix is heading back to the Dallas Cowboys’ sideline. The streamer had ordered a second season of its unscripted series America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Season one, which premiered in June, spent four weeks in […]