The first televised interview with Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her vp pick, Tim Walz, drew a sizable audience for CNN Thursday night. The 45-minute interview with anchor Dana Bash drew just under 6 million viewers (5.99 million, to be precise), based on fast national ratings from Nielsen. That number will likely go up …
HBO‘s Chimp Crazy is looking like it will be the outlet’s most watched documentary series in several years. The show, from Tiger King director Eric Goode, isn’t drawing The Last of Us-level (or even Curb Your Enthusiasm-level) audience numbers. But Chimp Crazy is on pace to be the biggest docuseries at HBO since McMillions in …
The first ever waterborne Olympics opening ceremony drew a big audience for NBCUniversal on Friday. The official start of the Paris games drew 28.6 million viewers on the broadcast network and Peacock, along with about 670,000 more on Telemundo, according custom fast national figures from Nielsen and Adobe Analytics. That’s the biggest audience for a …
In the parlance of the times, The Bear absolutely ate in the week of its third season premiere. The FX-produced Hulu show had its biggest streaming week to date for the June 24-30 period. The Emmy-winning series, whose third season premiered June 27, racked up 1.23 billion minutes of viewing for the week — beating its …
President Joe Biden’s Oval Office address on ending his re-election campaign Wednesday drew a large TV audience. About 26 million people watched the 15-minute speech at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT across eight broadcast and cable networks, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings. That figure will grow some with the inclusion of other outlets in the …
The closing night of the Republican National Convention drew the gathering’s biggest TV audience of the week, one larger than the closing night of the RNC four years ago. It wasn’t quite large enough, however, to push the convention as a whole past 2020’s numbers. Thursday’s coverage of the convention, running from 10 p.m. to …
HBO’s House of the Dragon hit its highest mark to date in Nielsen’s streaming ratings for June 17-23. The series racked up 1.23 billion minutes of viewing on Max for the week after its season two premiere (and including a few hours of viewing for the second episode on June 23). HotD’s previous best showing …
The finales of two major continental soccer tournaments brought in big TV audiences on Sunday. Both Fox and Univision set records for their telecasts of the Euro 2024 final between Spain and England and the Copa America final, featuring Argentina and Colombia. Spain-England drew a combined 9.43 million viewers Sunday afternoon, and in primetime, Argentina’s …
With the start of new seasons, both The Boys and House of the Dragon returned to Nielsen’s streaming charts for the week of June 10-16. Neither one could reach the heights of Bridgerton, however, as the Netflix drama zoomed back to the No. 1 overall spot with the release of season three’s second half. Bridgerton …
A pivotal episode of House of the Dragon drew the show’s biggest first-night audience of its season so far. The episode, “The Red Dragon and the Gold,” portrayed the Battle at Rook’s Rest, a key moment in author George R.R. Martin’s novel Fire & Blood and the larger Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and …