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SPOILER ALERT: This report contains details about tonight's episodes of Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: Organized Crime.  Elliot Stabler is back. Actor Christopher Meloni returned Thursday night in a crossover television event marked by tragedy that nudged him across primetime from SVU into his own spinoff, Law & Ord…

News networks trumpeted their first-quarter ratings by keying in on their bright spots: CNN got the biggest bounce and topped the 25-54 demo, Fox News led in primetime in total viewers, and MSNBC ranked first in total-day viewers. But drill down to the month of March, and a slower news cycle versus a year earlier…

ABC News’ World News Tonight with David Muir topped ratings in the first quarter, but the period also showed viewership coming back down to Earth across all of the evening newscasts. World News Tonight averaged 9.6 million total viewers, a drop of 2% from 9.8 million in the first quarter a year earlier, a period…

A year after the start of the Covid-19 shutdowns, network evening news viewership fell to levels resembling pre-pandemic habits. Viewership for World News Tonight with David Muir, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell was down for the week of March 8 compared to the same period a…

MSNBC drew the most total day viewers in February, beating all other cable networks in the ratings yardstick, while The Rachel Maddow Show was the top regularly scheduled show. The other news networks also were touting their numbers: CNN beat other networks in the 25-54 demographic in the total day timeframe as well…

An estimated 11.02 million viewers tuned into the opening day of the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump across five networks. That’s on par with the Day 1 of Trump’s first impeachment trial last year, which drew a total of 11 million viewers. But those figures were across six networks: ABC, CBS. NBC, CN…

The weekly Nielsen streaming rankings held steady in the first week of November, with Netflix breakout The Queen’s Gambit retaining the top spot. An estimated 1.455 billion total minutes of viewing of the chess drama occurred in the U.S. from November 2-8, Nielsen said, down from nearly 1.9 billion in the previous…

November turned out to be a huge month for the cable news networks, as all three major outlets touted ratings milestones with the boost from Election Day and its aftermath. The question, of course, is whether these levels will be sustained once Joe Biden takes office with the implicit promise of a return to normal…

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…

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…

Speeches from Barack Obama and Kamala Harris likely helped boost TV viewership for the third night of the Democratic National Convention. According to early numbers from Nielsen, 21.4 million watched during the 10 PM ET hour across six networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, MSNBC and CNN. That is a boost from the 18.6…

TV viewership for the second night of the Democratic National Convention dropped slightly from Monday night’s opener, with an average of 18.6 million watching across six networks during the 10 PM ET hour. That is off slightly from the 18.7 million viewers who watched on the convention’s first off. It’s also about a…