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 streaming series in their first week on the charts. A Man on the Inside, starring Ted Danson as a widower who goes undercover in a retirement community working for a private investigator, drew 880 million minutes of viewing for the week. That’s either the second- or third-best debut for a streaming comedy in 2024, depending on whether you classify The Bear (1.23 billion minutes for the week of its season three premiere) as one. (Nobody Wants This had just over a billion minutes for its first week.)
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Landman, meanwhile, snagged 653 million minutes of viewing, largely for its first two episodes that premiered Nov. 17. The
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