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EXCLUSIVE: Will Trent is digging up some strong viewership for ABC. After seven days of multi-platform viewing, the March 5 episode amassed 9.02M viewers across ABC, Hulu and other digital platforms, according to Disney. The makes it the series’ most-watched multi-platform telecast ever. In…

Bluey and Young Sheldon are still going back and forth on the Nielsen streaming charts. For the week of February 12 to 18, it was Bluey that prevailed with just under 1.2B viewing minutes, thanks to the 2-11 crowd, which made up about half of the audience. According to Nielsen, Bluey‘s 10 new…

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock is feeling the effects of Oscar weekend. Two NBCUniversal films, Oppenheimer and The Holdovers, scored golden statuettes in major categories at the 96th annual Academy Awards on March 10 — which appears to have drawn audiences to them on streaming. From March 9 to 12, Oppenheim…

The Rock has been heating things up for WWE. Since Dwayne Johnson returned to the ring in January, Friday Night SmackDown has seen some significant audience growth. The average demo audience for the first quarter of 2024 has been around 900,000 viewers. That’s up about 16% versus last year’s…

Millie Bobby Brown is once again reigning over Netflix with her latest project. Her new film Damsel recorded 35.3M views in just three days of availability, easily boosting it to the top of the English film charts (and taking the crown as the most-watched title of the week) from March 4 to March 10…

It’s not the near sweep that Oppenheimer had, but ABC certainly has something to celebrate out of last night’s Academy Awards. With the final numbers in, 19.5M viewers tuned in to watch the 2024 Oscars, according to Nielsen data. That’s a 4% win over the 18.8 million who tuned in for the 95th annual A…

Numbers don’t lie, goes the saying. Or do they? Zack Snyder believes they can sometimes disguise the truth, as he related to Joe Rogan in a recent chat. Snyder’s Rebel Moon was distributed by Netflix, and that service’s methods of accounting may disguise how successful the film was, Snyder…

UPDATED, 2:29 PM: Final Nielsen numbers show that Joe Biden’s State of the Union address drew 32.3 million viewers, an 18% increase from last year. It was Biden’s second-largest audience in his address to a joint session of Congress. His first speech in 2021 drew 38.2 million. This year’s…

Starz series BMF Season 3 continues on a roll, delivering 5.1 million multiplatform viewers on its premiere weekend. The third season premiered on Friday, March 1, achieving a series high in audience and growing season over season by 25%. The new season of the family drama also launched as the…

Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a big winner for Prime Video. The series debuted on February 2 and since then has collected more than a billion viewing minutes across its eight episodes, particularly impressive because of its overlap with the Super Bowl hoopla. The showing by Prime backs up its recent streaming…

This cycle’s Super Tuesday lacked suspense — and that showed in the viewership numbers. About 11.4 million viewers tuned into coverage during the peak hour of 10 p.m. ET, when the three major broadcast networks joined with the three major cable networks with live coverage, according to early numbers…

FX’s Shōgun came out of the gate strong with its streaming debut. According to Disney, the premiere episode of the limited series amassed 9M views globally across Hulu, Disney+ and Star+ in its first six days on these services. Internationally, this makes Shōgun the No. 1 general entertainment series…