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NBC and its streaming service Peacock saw a big viewership boost from the Olympics, and the Paris Games also gave the network’s nightly newscast two weeks of ratings wins. NBC Nightly News averaged 7.62 million viewers, topping ABC World News Tonight with 7.52 million and CBS Evening News with 4.45…

Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie and A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder both managed audience boosts last week to reclaim their spots atop the Netflix streaming charts. The Spongebob spinoff movie managed 13.4M views, making it the most-watched title of the week, while A Good Girl’s Guide to M…

Warner Bros. Discovery and the BBC have championed record ratings at the Paris Olympics. Having spent the day number crunching viewing over the past fortnight or so, the behemoths have spotlighted rocketing views to sporting events compared to the prior games three years ago. WBD, which…

The U.S. Men's Basketball Team's 98-87 victory over France averaged 19.5 million viewers on NBC and Peacock. That ranks as the most-watched gold medal game since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, based on fast national data from Nielsen and Adobe Analytics. The game peaked at 22.7 million viewers from…

It appears to have been a bit of a slow week on Netflix, with the most-watched title racking up just 12.8 million views. That was Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie, ranking atop the English films list. On the TV side of things, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder made its debut with 7.4M views…

Sunday saw the second biggest U.S. audience of the Paris Olympics so far with more than 35M viewers tuning in across NBC, Peacock and other platforms. That’s more than double the comparable Sunday audience for the Tokyo Games (17.4M cross-platform viewers), headlined by medal-worthy performances from…

The House of the Dragon Season 2 had a strong finish. Sunday night’s finale drew 8.9M viewers across HBO and digital platforms, the network announced Monday. That marks a season-high audience, with 14% growth over the Season 2 premiere’s 7.8M. However, it is still down versus the Season 1…

Nielsen recorded its biggest week of streaming ever over the Fourth of July holiday, as all ten of the most-watched titles reached over a billion minutes viewed. In total, the week led to more than 313B viewing minutes from July 1 to July 7 — the highest that Nielsen has ever recorded and, the…

The U.S. women’s gymnastics team led a big day for Team USA at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday, which translated to a huge audience for NBCUniversal’s platforms. Tuesday saw a total audience delivery of 34.7 million viewers across NBC, Peacock and the company’s other digital platforms, according to…

The return of Chicken Run after a 20-year hiatus saw viewers flock to the movie, which was crowned the most-watched streamer title in the UK last year by Ofcom’s Media Nations report. Aardman’s sequel Dawn of the Nugget starring Bella Ramsey and Thandiwe Newton drew an average audience of 7.5 million…

There’s a sense of déjà vu on the Netflix Top 10 this week, as the No. 1 spots in film and TV haven’t changed. Harry Connick Jr.’s Find Me Falling was again the week’s most-watched title, taking first place in English-language films with 16.1 million views. That’s up nearly 2M from its debut…

NBCUniversal's presentation Saturday of the Paris Olympics opening on NBC, Peacock, and across key NBCU platforms posted a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 32.4 million viewers, according to custom fast national data from Nielsen and Adobe Analytics. That beats the opening Saturday of competition…