Streaming Ratings Report

This week might be the peak of the summer streaming doldrums. Besides the usual big Netflix fare—Virgin River returning for season four and the estimated-$200-million The Grey Man debuting on streaming—no other big releases really broke through. They’re probably all waiting for Hot August Genre Wars. (Read my predictions here on

When these two release dates were announced, frankly, I was ecstatic: – On 21-August, HBO will debut House of the Dragon, their Game of Thrones prequel. – On 2-September, Prime Video will debut The Rings of Power, their Lord of the Rings prequel. What a showdown! Two of the most

This week, it felt like each streamer’s content kinda reflected their overall strategy. Netflix released it all (a YA series, a true crime doc, a kids film and more), Disney released a NatGeo documentary (and a weekly episode of an MCU/Star Wars series, Ms. Marvel), Hulu released a comedy from

Before we begin, I just wanted to say, thank you. We just had one of our best weeks ever, and I couldn’t keep doing this work without your support. In case you missed it, we published three articles on the “Dogs Not Barking” of 2022 so far, my term for

It’s always a pinch weird diving into a Streaming Ratings Report after a Netflix Earnings report. (If you want my thoughts, check out these two Twitter threads here or here.) It’s so tempting to try to tie what we learn from this week’s reports to the broad takeaways from Netflix’s

For those of you who are sick of superheroes and sci-fi TV series, you got a brief reprieve this week, as the big new TV shows and movies didn’t have anyone wearing a cape. (But it’s only a one-week break, since The Umbrella Academy comes out next week.) Unfortunately, there’s

Each week, at the end of both the TV and Film sections in the Streaming Ratings Report, I nominate “Dogs Not Barking” of the week, which may lead you to ask: What is a “Dog Not Barking”? Good question! It’s a term that I started using, inspired by a Sherlock

Compared to two years ago, the energy in the film world has really moved back to theaters. When Covid-19 locked down the world, virtually all major films went to streaming, or joint theatrical-streaming releases. From Red Notice to The Tomorrow War to even Encanto, theaters weren’t driving the conversation; streaming

The “Streaming Ratings Report” took a break last week since we got Nielsen ratings data fairly late in the week, and Nielsen had delayed reporting data the week before. While I use multiple sources each week to compile this report, Nielsen data has two features that no other (public) data

[Folks, right off the bat, I need to let you know that we don’t have the full Nielsen data set for the week of 23-May. But not to fear, between TV Time, some early tidbits that Nielsen released on Twitter about Obi-Wan Kenobi and Stranger Things, Netflix global ratings, Samba