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EXCLUSIVE: American Idol kicked off the Season 23 live shows on a high note. Things began to heat up on Sunday, which featured guest mentor James Taylor and the unveiling of this year's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductees. The episode rocked the 8 to 10 p.m. window with 5.31M average viewers, per…

CBS is claiming an early victory on the 2024-25 television season as it races toward the finish line as the most-watched broadcast network for the 17th consecutive season. Per Nielsen “Most Current” data, CBS has been averaging 4.99M viewers in primetime this season after seven days of viewing…

Joe Goldberg has returned to haunt the Netflix Top 10 one last time. You was back at No. 1 among English TV from April 21 to 27, with its fifth and final season tallying 10.1M views during its debut week. Unlike Season 4, Netflix opted to release all 10 episodes at once this go around, but…

9-1-1′s April 17 episode, the heartbreaking final episode for Peter Krause’s Bobby Nash, hit ratings highs for ABC and Hulu. After seven days of cross-platform viewing, the show's April 17 “Lab Rats” episode, delivered 8.45 million viewers and a 1.74 rating among adults 18-49, based on Nielsen…

Yellowjackets has officially managed its buzziest season yet. The Season 3 finale delivered 3M global viewers in seven days across linear and streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime, per parent company Paramount Global. It’s difficult to compare episodic performance across the season, since…

EXCLUSIVE: RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 17 sped to a strong finish on MTV. The latest season averaged a 0.54 rating among adults 18-34 and a 0.5 among adults 18-49, per live + same-day data from Nielsen. Season 17 was neck and neck with last year’s Season 16 ratings in these demos, tying with its…

The Netflix weekly TV charts got an overhaul last week. Season 7 of the techno-paranoia series Black Mirror managed 10.6M views in its first full week on the platform from April 14 to 20, which is up from its debut week’s 7.1M to put it in first place among English-language TV. Though, both…

It should come as no surprise that Netflix’s Adolescence shot to the top of the Nielsen charts during the week of March 17 to March 23, when it racked up 1.44B in its first full week on the streamer. Adolescence saw its watch time increase 59% over its debut weekend, per Nielsen, with adults…

The Season 2 finale of 1923 has amassed 14M views in the week since it debuted on Paramount+, per parent company Paramount Global. That’s the biggest audience ever for the series, marking a 41% versus the Season 1 finale audience of 10M. This caps a successful season of growth for the Yellowstone…

Adolescence continued its climb up Netflix’s Most Popular list last week, adding another 9.7M views to its tally from April 7 to 13, putting it at No. 3 among all English-language series so far. With 124M views in the five weeks since it was released, Adolescence now sits just under Stranger Thin…

EXCLUSIVE: The audience for American Idol Season 23 is on the rise, despite some tough competition last week. Hollywood Week kicked off on Sunday night, up nearly 10% from the week prior in live + same-day viewership with 5.1M tuning in. Within three days of multi-platform viewing, the audience…

March marked a high-profile month for streaming, which represented 43.8% of all television usage during the month, driven by top programs across seven different platforms, according to Nielsen’s latest monthly report, The Gauge. Prime Video’s Reacher came in atop the list with an impressive…