Nielsen’s early measurement of Tuesday night’s presidential debate between vice president Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump appears very strong. Though finalized numbers will not be available until later in the day on Tuesday, a preliminary count shows that 57.5 million watched the debate. That marks a 12% from the 51.3 million who tuned […]

The first four episodes of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Season 2 have reached 40 million viewers globally in 11 days, according to Amazon. It’s difficult to put the stat in full context, as Amazon has not defined how it quantifies its viewership; for example, 40 million could simply be the […]

Season 2 of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” was the second-most-watched streaming original series in the U.S. between Aug. 30 to Sept. 2 — the four days of Labor Day weekend — per Luminate. This marked the season’s first weekend of streaming, but excludes its first day on Aug. 29. Amazon […]

Amazon Prime Video has ordered a docuseries about the popular Lisa Frank brand titled “Glitter and Greed: The Lisa Frank Story.” According to its official description, “Glitter and Greed” will examine “the neon-hued world of Lisa Frank Inc., a brand that defined girlhood for a generation of Americans only to seemingly disappear overnight. Behind the […]

SPOILER ALERT: The following article contains spoilers for the finale of “The Bachelorette” Season 21. All season long, promos for “The Bachelorette” finale have featured host Jesse Palmer telling season lead Jenn Tran, “No Bachelorette has ever done this.” Finally, on Tuesday night, viewers got to see Jenn make her choice. Last week’s “Fantasy Suites” […]

“The Accident” and “The Union” were the most-watched streaming originals in the U.S. by far during the week of Aug. 23-29, per Luminate. “The Accident” led TV titles with 782 million minutes watched throughout the window, which marked its first full week of availability, while “The Union” was the top movie and top title overall, […]

“Prison Break” was the fifth-most-streamed series of the July 29 to Aug. 4 window, during which it was added to Netflix, per Nielsen. The drama series, which ran on Fox from 2005 to 2017, was watched for 758 million minutes across both Netflix and Hulu, where it was previously available. The week’s chart was led […]

“Borderline,” a detective series from Lionsgate Television, is heading to the Roku Channel for its U.S. premiere on Sept. 1. Per the official logline, in the series, “straitlaced detective inspector Philip Boyd of North Ireland finds himself working alongside his foul-mouthed Republic of Ireland counterpart, detective inspector Aoife Regan, and although neither are happy about […]

“American Murder: Laci Peterson” was the most-watched streaming original series in the U.S. Aug. 16-22, which marked its first full week of availability, per Luminate. That’s up from fifth place with 255.3 million minutes watched the week before, though the docuseries was only available for two days during that window. Interestingly, the title at the […]

The fourth and final night of the Democratic National Convention brought in an average of 26.2 million viewers, boosted by a speech from presidential nominee Kamala Harris, during which viewership peaked at 28.9 million. That marks a solid improvement from the first three nights’ steady viewership: Nielsen estimated that 20 million people tuned in on […]

As celebrity host of the third night of the Democratic National Convention, Mindy Kaling took the stage to support the presidential campaign of Kamala Harris, who she said she calls a friend. After joking that she was “the woman who courageously outed Kamala Harris as Indian in an Instagram cooking video,” Kaling shared her observations […]

UPDATE: Viewership of the Democratic National Convention spiked slightly on its second night, reaching an average of 20.6 million viewers on Tuesday after Monday hit 20 million. Like the night before, networks included in Nielsen’s measurement are ABC, CBS, NBC, Scripps News, CNN, CNNe, FOX Business, FOX News Channel, MSNBC, Newsmax, NewsNation and PBS. Tuesday’s […]

Ilana Glazer has set a new comedy special titled “Human Magic” at Hulu. “Human Magic” was taped at the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre in Toronto in May of this year during Glazer’s 48-city tour across the U.S. and Canada. This is their second stand-up special, following “Ilana Glazer: The Planet Is Burning,” which […]