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Three weeks in, NBC’s stalwart America’s Got Talent continues to tower over the summer competition. Down just a fraction from its first two episodes, the variety competition drew 5.95 million total viewers and a 0.7 rating among adults 18-49 in the fast nationals. AGT is being used to launch new viral video-inspired…

Stranger Things 4 Vol. 1 pulled in an additional 159.24M hours viewed in its second full week of release, bringing its total to 781.04M hours viewed in 17 days. As expected, the period sci-fi series shot up to the top of the Most Popular English-language TV series on Netflix all-time list, which measures viewership…

The 75th Annual Tony Awards signified a return to normalcy for the Broadway community by airing in the show’s traditional June berth for the first time in three years. The three-hour telecast, airing live on CBS coast-to-coast for the first time and streaming on Paramount+ and the CBS digital platforms, drew 3.86…

The National Basketball Assn. topped Friday’s ratings by a healthy margin, the game coming in with a 2.3 and 7.95 million viewers in the early results. Those numbers may go up when finalized. In the Friday game, the Golden State Warriors beat the Boston Celtics to tie the best-of-seven series at 2-2. It’s now down to…

UPDATE: An estimated 20 million people watched the January 6th Committee primetime hearing across 12 networks, according to Nielsen. The audience breakdown showed viewership among those 55+ was 15.2 million viewers. An estimated 3.6 million viewers watched in the 35-54 category, and 834,000 among 18-34 year olds. The…

The once great Boston Celtics dynasty must be feeling pretty restored right about now after Wednesday night's 116-100 win over the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 of the 2022 NBA Finals. When it comes to viewership, though, the league itself is probably is a little meh. Pulling in an audience of 11.5 million on ABC…

Candy, the limited series rolled out by Hulu in a Monday-to-Friday, one-episode-a-day pattern, pulled in 577 million minutes of streaming to finish sixth on Nielsen’s weekly chart for May 9 to 15. It was the best debut by any Hulu title since the most recent season of The Handmaid’s Tale hit the platform in May 2021. N…

Stranger Things 4 Vol. 1 logged 335.01M hours viewed in its first full week of release to shoot up to #3 on Netflix’s all-time list for English-language series with 621.80m hours viewed in 10 days. With only Bridgerton Season 2 (656M) and Bridgerton S1 (625M) ahead of it on the list, which measures viewership during a…

Going into Game 3 tomorrow, the 2022 NBA Finals right now is a dead heat, with one win in pocket for rivals the Golden State Warriors and the Boston Celtics. Steph Curry and the Bay Area's best brought some serious heat and gravity defying skills in a home court match-up with Marcus Smart and the Boston boys on…

The newest batch of episodes of Stranger Things, which arrived on Netflix the same day that Obi-Wan Kenobi premiered on Disney+, powered the show to 5.1 billion minutes of U.S. streaming in its first three days, according to Nielsen. Obi-Wan, with shorter and fewer episodes, had a more subdued launch with about 1…

The 2021-2022 television season concluded last week with NBC’s football coverage and NCIS returning to the top of the Nielsen ratings charts, and This Is Us going out with one last win for the Pearsons. As Deadline reported last month, CBS was primetime’s the most-watched broadcast network this season with an average…

Two great teams. Lots of big stars. An exciting game. Big television markets. Momentum from a ratings rise during the regular season and playoffs. And it all added up to the lowest ratings for Game 1 of the National Basketball Assn.’s June finals in many years. The Thursday night NBA Finals opener between the Golden St…