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Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit dominated Nielsen’s U.S. streaming rankings for the week of October 26-November 1, piling up nearly 1.9 million total minutes of viewing. The rankings usually are released on Thursday but were delayed due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Netflix said last week that Gambit had drawn 62 million g…

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm grabbed the No. 8 spot in Nielsen’s ranking of top streaming titles, with Schitt’s Creek topping the list for the third week of the last four. Amazon Prime Video’s Borat sequel marked a rare appearance by a non-Netflix title on the U.S. chart, which also tracks Amazon, Disney+ and…

The Haunting of Bly Manor topped the Nielsen streaming list for the week of October 12-18, with more than 1.8 billion minutes of viewing as Netflix owned all 10 spots on the chart. The Gothic romance series, loosely based on Henry James and following The Haunting of Hill House, had been the No. 2 show on last week’s…

Schitt’s Creek, the Pop TV show whose run on Netflix helped it pull off an historic Emmy sweep in September, for the second straight week topped Nielsen’s rankings of streaming titles. Viewing of the sitcom totaled 1.46 billion minutes in the U.S. from October 5 to 11. The rankings, which lag almost a month behind…

EmmySchitt’s Creek has climbed up the Nielsen streaming charts, unseating Ryan Murphy’s Ratched, with 968 million minutes of viewing from September 28-October 4. The comedy series from Pop, swept the comedy categories at the Emmy Awards back in September, with all members of the main cast taking home wins in their…

Ratched, Ryan Murphy’s exploration of the nurse character in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, led all streaming titles with 1.6 billion minutes of viewing from September 21 to 27, according to Nielsen. It was the second straight top finish by the eight-episode series, and a significant improvement over the previous…

Netflix’s Cobra Kai has again topped the Nielsen U.S. streaming chart, racking up 1.655 billion streaming minutes from September 7-13. The Karate Kid update, which premiered on YouTube Premium before shifting to Netflix, has 20 episodes available spanning its first two seasons. In the previous week, Cobra Kai approache…

Cobrai Kai, the Karate Kid update acquired by Netflix after its initial run on YouTube Premium, dominated the Nielsen streaming charts for August 31 to September 6. The show’s 20 episodes drew nearly 2.2 billion streaming minutes, well ahead of the No. 2 show, Lucifer, which had 1.4 billion. Amazon Prime Video’s The Bo…

ABC News’ World News Tonight with David Muir topped its broadcast rivals in the first week of the new season. The newscast drew 8.5 million viewers, compared with 7.33 million for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and 5.15 million for CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell. In the 25-54 demo, World News Tonight had…

Lucifer, which was canceled by Fox two years ago and then given a second life by Netflix, has come out on top of Nielsen’s latest streaming rankings. The show outdid Nickelodeon animated series The Legend of Korra, which streams on Netflix, logging just shy of 1.6 billion minutes of viewing in the U.S. from August…

Project Power, the Netflix action movie starring Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon Levitt, cracked Nielsen’s recently inaugurated weekly top 10 of streaming titles in the U.S. for August 10-16. The film was joined by another Netflix feature, The Lost Husband, which stars Carly Pope and Kevin Alejandro. The Umbrella Academy…

Nielsen today added a subscription streaming viewership chart to its weekly set of rankings for television broadcasts and video games, with Netflix dominating the first edition. Only Netflix and Amazon are included thus far, and the rankings are only of U.S. viewing through a television, which is a minority of the…