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EXCLUSIVE: NBCUniversal has been bringing the heat across broadcast and streaming this summer thanks to the company’s unscripted heavyweights Love Island USA and America’s Got Talent. Love Island USA‘s successful Season 7 has already made headlines throughout the summer, but now Deadline can…

Big Brother made a splash with its summer return to CBS. Through its first two weeks, Season 27 is averaging 4.8M multi-platform viewers across five episodes, up 9% from last summer during that time frame, per numbers shared by Paramount Global that incorporate both Nielsen’s linear data with…

Americans celebrated Independence Day this year by once again watching loads of television. Last year, every single overall Top 10 title reached 1B+ minutes streamed during the holiday week and, while that didn’t quite happen this time around, Nielsen says audiences actually spent 8% more time…

The Gilded Age‘s hot summer run continues. Julian Fellowes’ HBO period drama, which gives the Downton Abbey treatment to New York of the Gilded Age, kept its streak of ratings records going with Episode 6 setting another series high. It has tallied 4.5 million U.S. cross-platform viewers in its first…

WWE fans are gearing up for what could be a very eventful SummerSlam. Ahead of the event, which is taking place over two nights for the first time, Raw, SmackDown and NXT have all put up strong performances across cable and streaming as viewers tap into the current storylines that are likely to…

As public interest in the Jeffrey Epstein files intensifies again, U.S. audiences seem to be searching for more answers about his criminal activities. Netflix’s 2020 docuseries Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich saw a massive spike in viewership during the week of July 18 to 24, tallying 73.1M minutes…

South Park certainly has been in the news during the past week. The animated series took aim at President Donald Trump in its Season 27 opener, in particular focusing on the Commander-in-Chief's small manhood, and clearly it has paid off. The opening episode — which premiered on Comedy…

With It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia recently concluding its Abbott Elementary crossover event, Kaitlin Olson could have the opportunity to infuse two more TV shows. Ahead of 9-1-1‘s Season 9 premiere on Oct. 9, Jennifer Love Hewitt pitched a crossover event for Ryan Murphy‘s flagship ABC…

EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA has renewed its contract with Nielsen to provide third-party streaming data and analytics to the guild. The 160,000-strong actors union has been using Nielsen’s streaming content ratings service since it reached a deal with the major Hollywood studios in 2023 to help verify…

UK streaming lovers could not get enough of the minions last year. According to Ofcom's Media Nations report, the most-watched movie or TV episode on streaming in 2024 was Minions: The Rise of Gru on Netflix, a 2022 film that isn’t a Netflix original. That one got 13.7 million views when…

Fox News again topped the ratings for the month of July, but all of the major news networks saw audience declines vs. 2024. That’s not much of a surprise, as the month last year was a blockbuster one for news, with the Trump assassination attempt, the Republican National Convention and Joe Biden…

Untamed spent another week at No. 1 on Netflix’s English TV list, more than doubling its viewership from the week prior to amass 26.1M views from July 21 to 27. The series, which managed a Top 10 spot in 92 countries, has already been renewed for Season 2. Viewers were also still intrigued…