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Season 2 of Yellowjackets had a buzzy premiere week. The debut episode has hit just about 4M viewers across linear and digital platforms, which is double the live viewership. According to Showtime, that’s the best premiere week for the network since Dexter: New Blood in November 2021. Related…

The CMT Music Awards drew its largest audience ever Sunday night with 5.43 million viewers tuning in on CBS. That’s up 5% from last year, when about 5.16M people watched the live telecast. Final numbers will rise, with CBS projecting a total viewership of 5.68M including Paramount+…

EXCLUSIVE: The Talk scored its most-watched week in over a year, thanks to the cast of The Young and The Restless. During the week of March 20, the show dedicated all five days to honoring the 50th anniversary of the soap opera. Each day featured different cast members. The week averaged 1.64M…

The Mandalorian shot back onto Nielsen’s U.S. streaming charts during the week of the Season 3 premiere. The Disney+ series tallied 823M viewing minutes from February 27 to March 5, coming in at No. 5 among streaming programs. According to Nielsen, the first episode from Season 3 generated 57% of…

EXCLUSIVE: Kerry Washington‘s comedy series UnPrisoned seems to be resonating with viewers in the U.S. The series, which debuted on March 10, has now become Onyx Collective’s most-watched Hulu premiere to date. It is also the most-watched Hulu Original scripted series so far in 2023, in terms of…

Fox News topped March ratings, but all of the major news networks saw double digit erosion from the same month in 2022. CNN saw some of the steepest declines, with it primetime audience down 61% from March of 2022, and dropping 73% in the 25-54 demo. One factor: The lack of a dominant news…

The Night Agent snuck its way to the top of Netflix’s English-language TV charts for the week of March 20. The series, created by Shawn Ryan and based on the novel of the same name by Matthew Quirk, debuted on March 23, raking in 168.7M hours viewed in its first few days on the streamer. According…

The Roys are back with a vengeance. The Season 4 premiere of Succession drew an audience of 2.3M on Sunday across HBO Max and linear telecasts, which is a series high for same-day viewers. Total viewing for Sunday night was up 62% compared to Season 3’s premiere viewership of 1.4M in October 2021…

The Season 2 premiere of Yellowjackets delivered Showtime‘s best debut for a second installment that the network has seen in more than 10 years. Sunday’s episode raked in nearly 2M viewers across all platforms, according to Showtime. The network didn’t provide a specific viewing number. It’s…

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Show has been ticking along nicely with its phalanx of guest hosts including Chelsea Handler, Leslie Jones and Kal Penn. The producers of the Comedy Central series are currently weighing up how they replace Trevor Noah in the hot seat come the fall, and one suggestion has been to…

Detective John Luther’s movie debut helped lock up millions of UK viewers for Netflix, but the feature fell well short of other film offerings on Netflix. Luther: The Fallen Sun was watched by 3M people on TV sets, according to Barb, the official audience research group. It has also occupied first…

Outer Banks took over Nielsen’s U.S. streaming chart for the week of February 20 to 26. Following the release of Season 3 on February 23, the Netflix series drew nearly 3.2B viewing minutes during that measurement interval. According to Nielsen, nearly 1B of those viewing minutes (roughly a third)…