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The Watcher surged 10% in its second week on Netflix, collecting 2.6 billion minutes of viewing to repeat at No. 1 on Nielsen’s U.S. streaming chart for the week of October 17 to 23. The Ryan Murphy-produced thriller series easily outdistanced another Netflix title, The School for Good and Evil…

For the second consecutive month, people are watching more television. Time spent watching TV increased by about 2.2% month-over-month in October, according to Nielsen. The primary uptick in viewership came from broadcast, which managed about 26% of overall viewing for the month — a 10% increase from…

The Watcher cruised to a win in Nielsen’s streaming rankings for the week of October 10 to 16, giving producer Ryan Murphy his second top show less than a month after the release of the blowout hit Dahmer. With 2.355 billion minutes of streaming, the series more than doubled the viewership of…

Dahmer continues to make a killing for Netflix by dominating Nielsen's U.S. streaming chart for the week of Oct. 3-9.. In fact, the top five most-watched series — Dahmer, Hocus Pocus 2, The Lords of the Rings: Rings of Power, House of the Dragon and Cocomelon — haven’t budged since the previous week…

Hocus Pocus 2 set a record for streaming minutes by a movie on Nielsen’s weekly chart, drawing more than 2.7 billion minutes of viewing from September 26 to October 2. The Disney sequel premiered on September 30, meaning only its first weekend counted toward the total. Netflix’s Dahmer took the top…

Dahmer, which had already been anointed as the second-biggest series in Netflix history based on the company’s own data, dominated Nielsen’s U.S. streaming chart for the week of September 19-25. The Ryan Murphy-produced serial killer series (whose full name is Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story)…

Despite strong tune-in for the start of the NFL and college football seasons, broadcast and cable TV viewership still didn’t measure up to streaming in the month of September, Nielsen said. The firm’s monthly edition of The Gauge, released this morning, has streaming as a category at 36.9% of overall…

In the latest fantasy streaming battle, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power retained a slim lead over House of the Dragon on Nielsen’s weekly streaming chart for September 12 to 18. Prime Video’s Rings pulled in 988 million minutes of streaming, while Dragon got 960 million, down from 1.203…

Cobra Kai topped the Nielsen streaming chart for the week of September 5-11, as titles from four competing streaming services surpassed 1 billion minutes of viewing in a first. The fifth season of Netflix’s Karate Kid reboot drew more than 1.7 billion minutes of streaming from 50 available episodes…

In the first head-to-head showdown for two big-budget fantasy series on Nielsen’s weekly streaming chart, Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power got the edge over HBO Max’s House of the Dragon. For the week of August 29-September 4, the first two episodes of LOTR rang up 1.25 billion…

"While we're still waiting for official Nielsen ratings, our measurement shows that the audience numbers exceeded all of our expectations for viewership," Prime Video’s top sports exec Jay Marine said today in a note to staff on the "resounding success" of the streamer's official Thursday Night Football kickoff on…

Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon didn’t breathe enough fire to scorch the rest of the streaming field in its initial hours, but new Nielsen figures suggest it got off to a torrid start on HBO Max. Nielsen’s weekly rankings for streaming titles didn’t feature Dragon in the top 10 after its premiere on August…