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Netflix’s original series take on popular author Michael Connelly’s The Lincoln Lawyer (previously the basis of a Matthew McConaughey feature) posted a dominant win on the U.S. streaming chart for the week of May 16-22. The 10-episode show cruised past Ozark, collecting 1.85 billion minutes of viewing. Fully one-third…

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…

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 climactic half of Ozark‘s final season propelled the drama to a dominant win on Nielsen’s weekly streaming chart for May 2 to 8. With more than 3.3 billion minutes of streaming, the series accounted for 40% of the week’s Top 10. The second part of the latest (and final) season debuted on April 29. The median age…

One of Netflix’s biggest draws, Ozark, returned with Part 2 of its fourth season and the re-up put the show back atop Nielsen’s weekly streaming chart for the week of April 25 to May 1. The series drew 2.575 billion total minutes of streaming from its 44 episodes. It figures to put up a comparable or even higher…

Better Call Saul captured the top spot on a sleepy week, collecting 821 million minutes of viewing for its first five seasons on Netflix. Along with the rankings for the week of April 18 to 24, Nielsen also released the April edition of The Gauge, its monthly look at overall viewing via TV sets. Helped by an upswing…

Netflix’s The Ultimatum: Marry Or Move On took the No. 1 spot from three-week champion Bridgerton on Nielsen’s weekly streaming chart. The unscripted series racked up 1.1 billion minutes of viewing in the week of April 11 to 17. It was the only show above the 1 billion mark in a subdued week overall. Better Call Saul…

Paced by the April premiere of Better Call Saul‘s new season on AMC, catch-up viewing of the show’s first five seasons propelled the show to No. 2 on Nielsen’s streaming chart for April 4 to 10. The Breaking Bad spinoff’s 50 episodes on Netflix generated 915 million minutes of streaming — not nearly the 1.6 billion of…

Fox Corp.’s free, ad-supported streaming service Tubi is working on an expansion of its current arrangement with Nielsen that will enlarge the scope of where its viewership is measured. By using Nielsen's Digital Ad Ratings offering, Tubi will be able to get a gauge of streaming across devices like computers, mobile…

ISpot.tv, a leading challenger to Nielsen for supremacy in the increasingly fraught TV and streaming ratings business, has received a $325 million investment from Goldman Sachs. Since its founding in 2012, iSpot has raised $58 million. In announcing the new influx of money, the company said it is generating more than…

Netflix’s second-season premiere of Bridgerton was watched for a total of more than 2.5 billion minutes in its debut week, Nielsen reported Thursday, doubling up all others in the streaming world for the week of March 21-27. Season 2 of the Shondaland-produced Regency-era drama series, which premiered March 25, has alr…

Overall TV usage was down 4.2% in March from February, with cable the one category growing in share and volume, jumping 1.6 points. Cable news viewing was up 14% from February and accounted for 21% of the cable share, driven by continuing news coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war. The stats were delivered today by Nielse…