NBC’s Sunday Night Baseball drew its largest audience of the season last week, as Major League Baseball continues to post strong early-season viewership numbers. The extra-innings San Francisco Giants-Chicago Cubs game averaged 2.34 million viewers on Sunday, June 7 (2.6 million when including Adobe Analytics), the largest Sunday Night Baseball audience of the season for NBC.…

The USMNT’s final pre-World Cup tune-up drew the largest English-language audience ever for an American men’s soccer friendly, according to Sports Business Journal. Saturday’s 2-1 loss to Germany at Soldier Field averaged 1.5 million viewers on TNT/truTV, peaking at 1.9 million. It topped the previous record — set just six days earlier — when the…

The first two parts of the “Summer House” Season 10 reunion has turned out to be a ratings milestone for the hit reality series. Per NBCUniversal, part one of the reunion drew the largest Live+Same Day audience in the show’s history. In multi-platform viewing over its first seven days of availability, Part 1 has delivered […]

After Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final between the Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes went to overtime, ABC is again reporting a very strong viewership number. ABC announced that Game 2 averaged 4.68 million viewers, down slightly from 4.79 million in Game 1, but still up 88% from Game 2 of the 2025 Stanley…

Viewership for Game 1 of the NBA Finals is in, and it’s already a major ratings success. The New York Knicks’ victory over the San Antonio Spurs on June 3 averaged 16.93 million viewers, peaking with 19.63 million viewers at 11 p.m. ET. Viewership was up 90% from Game 1 of last year’s Oklahoma City…

Love Island USA Season 8 is off to a fiery start on Peacock. Since launching on June 2, the first few episodes have already tallied 824M minutes viewed, up 74% from Season 7. That makes it Peacock’s most-streamed original season ever through the first three days, per internal data from NBCUniversal. Unsurprisingly, given the primary […]

The NHL’s strong television run continued with Game 1 of the 2026 Stanley Cup Final drawing its largest audience in seven years. Game 1 of the 2026 Stanley Cup Final between the Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes averaged 4.8 million viewers on ABC, the largest audience for a Stanley Cup Final Game 1 since…

Euphoria seems to have held fairly steady across its third and final season, delivering 8.7M viewers in three days for the series finale, HBO says. That’s a slight uptick from the premiere, which amassed 8.5M viewers in three days, but the network didn’t specify if this is the best audience of the season. HBO has […]

The Oklahoma City Thunder averaged 1.8 million viewers this season, according to Nielsen, a figure that rivals or exceeds the ratings for many nationally televised NBA games and comes as many NBA teams look for new local TV homes. The entire 2025-26 NBA regular season averaged 1.78 million viewers across ABC, ESPN, NBC, and Prime…

Saturday Night Live pulled off another successful season. Season 51 finished its run as No. 1 among broadcast comedy series in the 18-49 demo (the show’s seventh consecutive season to do so), per Nielsen data. It was also No. 3 among all entertainment series in the demo and, in terms of total viewers, Season 51 […]

Two Netflix series that had launched atop Netflix’s weekly Top 10 for English series with their first seasons, The Four Seasons and A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder, returned with their second installments last week. Neither could repeat their debut performances, ranking as No. 3 (The Four Seasons, 4.4M views) and No. 9 (A Good […]

As expected, the climactic Game 7 finale in the epic Western Conference Finals series between the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs was a massive ratings winner for NBC. The Spurs emerged triumphant over the Thunder by a 111-103 final score in a contest that wasn’t decided until the final minute. It marked the…

Not even a four game sweep in the Eastern Conference Finals with each contest decided by double digits could halt the NBA’s momentum when it comes to television ratings. ESPN has had rotten luck in the last week with both its NBA Eastern Conference Finals and NHL Western Conference Finals coverage ending in sweeps. Those…

Nemesis continued gaining traction on Netflix last week, up nearly 61% from its opening to rake in 11.4M views from May 18 to 24. The series, from Courtney A. Kemp and Tani Marole, easily took over the streamer’s weekly English TV charts soaring past its competition. That competition included the Duffer Brothers–produced The Boroughs, which […]

For decades, LGBTQ+ Americans fought to be visible on television screens that either erased them entirely or treated them as punchlines, predators, or cautionary tales. Now, a coalition of more than 40 civil rights, free expression, and LGBTQ+ advocacy groups says the federal government is flirting with reviving that history in a new form. This time, the government wants to put warning labels…

Prime Video has found its next coming-of-age hit. The streamer’s new college-set romantic drama Off Campus has logged 36 million viewers worldwide in the first 12 days of release, including two full weekends, per Amazon. That ranks as Prime Video’s No. 3 most-viewed debut season ever behind Season 1 of The Lord of the Rings: […]

Audiences still can’t get enough of the Dutton family. Dutton Ranch, the latest series in the Yellowstone franchise, generated 12.9M streaming views globally in seven days post-premiere, Paramount said Tuesday. That marks the biggest original series launch in Paramount+ history, soaring past the 8M views for Dutton Ranch’s recent predecessor The Madison over its first […]

Stephen Colbert closed out The Late Show on Thursday night to the tune of 6.74M live + same-day viewers, per preliminary panel only data from Nielsen. That makes it the series most-watched weeknight episode ever, CBS says, even higher than Colbert’s very first episode as host. He signed on for duty on September 8, 2015 […]

EXCLUSIVE: Dateline is finishing the TV season on top. Per Nielsen, Dateline outperformed its competition (namely 20/20 on ABC) to become the top Friday newsmagazine among both adults 25-54 and 18-49 for the 2025-2026 broadcast primetime season. This marks the second consecutive season that the program can lay claim to that title. The last time Dateline […]

Netflix had another successful fight night over the weekend. The streamer raked in 12.4M Live + 1 viewers globally for its triple main-card event on Saturday, peaking with 17M viewers to watch Ronda Rousey defeat Gina Carano, per a combination of data from VideoAmp and internal numbers from Netflix. In the U.S. alone, the event […]

ABC’s The Rookie continues to defy its age, posting a year-to-year viewership bump with its Season 8 finale. The action-packed May 4 closer, which delivered an epic Chenford proposal years in the making followed by a shocking twist, delivered 9.25 million total viewers in Nielsen National Live+7 Day Big Data Plus Panel program ratings across […]

Perfect Crown has become the latest Korean title to break through on streaming. The romantic comedy has driven more than 43M hours viewed globally to-date across Disney+ and Hulu, per the Walt Disney Company. The series has achieved audience growth weekly, including a 43% increase in views in seven days for Episode 8 compared to […]

There has been enough debate about NBA ratings this season to fill an election cycle over the past year. But with the playoffs upon us, the league has to be feeling great about its current positioning in the greater sports landscape. The NBA has seen ratings go up across the postseason amongst its partners at…

Man on Fire burned brightly ahead of the pack on Netflix’s English TV rankings last week. The series, starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, took in 12.6M views from May 4 to 10. That’s in addition to the 11M views it secured in its first few days on the platform after launching on April 30. This marks […]

Fox is touting its strength coming off a successful 2025-26 broadcast season, led by a few new breakout hits for the network. Memory of a Killer tallied 18.4M viewers across platforms in 35 days, ranking as broadcast’s top drama debut of the season among adults 18-49 and delivering the largest 35-day streaming audience ever for […]

The Force is strong with this one. In honor of “Star Wars” Day, Nielsen has shared some insights into people’s viewing habits around the beloved franchise, which show that it remains incredibly popular nearly 50 years after it began. Per Nielsen data, U.S. viewers viewed 33 billion minutes (equivalent to 550 million hours) of “Star […]

The annual Run for the Roses on Saturday was a historic moment for women in horse racing as Cherie DeVaux became the first female trainer to win the Kentucky Derby. DeVaux’s story plus other firsts that were poised to be achieved by jockeys, trainers and horses at this year’s derby drove the live audience on […]

We are a week and a half into the NBA playoffs, and the league continues to see strong viewership numbers. Through 27 telecasts, the 2026 NBA playoffs are the most viewed since 1993. As of Sunday, the NBA is averaging 3.84 million viewers for first-round playoff games on ABC, NBC, ESPN, and Prime Video. That’s…

Two of Netflix’s star series returned this month, but audiences have been slow to catch on. Both Beef and Running Point both debuted their second seasons over the past two weeks or so to pretty middling results. Beef, which debuted on April 16, managed 4.1M views in its first full week on the streamer, boosting […]

EXCLUSIVE: Looks like Bravo struck gold in the Ocean State. The Real Housewives of Rhode Island premiere episode amassed 2.7M viewers across platforms in seven days post-April 2 debut, making it Bravo’s biggest multiplatform series premiere since 2024, according to NBCUniversal. The series now also lays claim to the most-watched series or season premiere of all […]