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EXCLUSIVE: The Valley: Persian Style has made a splash with its Bravo debut. The series premiere tallied 2.1M total viewers across platforms within seven days of its January 8 debut, according to NBCUniversal. On Peacock, the episode ranks as Bravo’s No. 2 most-watched series premiere of all…

Fox News was well ahead of cable news rivals in January, but MS NOW and CNN made viewership gains during the newsy start of the year. In primetime, Fox News averaged 2.05 million viewers, down 26% from 2.78 million in the same month last year. MS NOW averaged 887,000 total viewers, up 21% from…

The CW might just have a winning hand with the third season of Wild Cards. The Season 3 premiere opened to 710,000 live + same-day viewers on Monday night, according to Nielsen Panel + Big Data, marking the series’ largest overnight audience ever. While that number may seem somewhat modest…

The New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks emerged victorious from the weekend’s NFL conference championship games, setting the stage for the two teams to face off yet again for the ring in Super Bowl LX. But it seems audiences weren’t nearly as jazzed about the possibility of this rematch as they…

Seth MacFarlane is Nielsen’s inaugural “Streaming Icon of the Year.” The TV ratings measurement company released the results of the 2025 ARTEY Awards, its annual recognition of the most-watched streaming titles of the year, on Wednesday. This included MacFarlane’s icon award, bestowed upon him…

American Idol's move to a new night seems to have paid off. The ABC talent contest scored its biggest season debut in four years with 5.9M total viewers and a 0.54 rating point among adults 18-49, per Nielsen's live+same day preliminary ratings. This was up from 4.49M (0.45) last year. It…

Netflix's reboot of Star Search won't be worrying the broadcast networks after all, it seems. The talent competition failed to hit Netflix's global top 10 charts in its first week and it scored fewer than 2.3 million views on the service with its opening two episodes. The show was…

Alex Honnold successfully scaled one of the world's tallest skyscrapers on Saturday without a rope — so what kind of audience did the risky live event attract? The free-solo climber’s conquering of Taipei 101 aired live on the streamer at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET and, through the end of Netflix’s…

The UFC’s heavily promoted debut on Paramount+ delivered an average minute audience of 4.96M views on Saturday night, per data from parent company Paramount Global on Monday. The company says that UFC 324, which saw Justin Gaethje defeat a bloody Paddy Pimblett in the main event, marked the…

EXCLUSIVE: Tyler Perry’s Sistas is off to a promising start with its tenth season on BET. The premiere episode, which debuted on January 7, delivered 1M total viewers after three days, according to Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel data. That includes the initial linear premiere on BET as well as…

The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins debuted to 5.8M live + same-day viewers on NBC on Sunday, according to Nielsen, giving audiences a sneak peek of what’s to come when the comedy series officially premieres in its time slot come February. In the 18-49 demo, the episode managed a 1.4 rating. The…

U.S. audiences watched a wide range of streaming fare during the week of Christmas, which was unsurprisingly buoyed by Stranger Things, per Nielsen’s latest streaming report. Three new episodes of the fifth and final season dropped on Christmas Day, helping the series rack up 6.89B minutes…