The Season 4 finale of “Only Murders in the Building” brought in the show’s biggest weekly audience to date.

As the Season 4 finale debuted Tuesday, Oct. 29, on Hulu, “Only Murders in the Building” brought in 599 million minutes of viewing time during the interval between Oct. 28-Nov. 3, according to Nielsen. The show outpaced its previous viewership record of 590 million minutes, which it notched in August 2023 during the Season 3 rollout.

“Only Murders in the Building” was the No. 6 most-watched show on Nielsen’s streaming originals list for the week, outpacing “Tulsa King,” which brought in 585 million minutes viewed on Paramount+, as well as “Special Ops: Lioness,” which scored 576 viewing minutes on Paramount+.

“Only Murders in the Building” did not crack the overall top 10 list, however, which was dominated by “The Lincoln Lawyer,” which took the No. 1 spot on the list with 1.45 billion minutes of viewing time on Netflix.

Behind “The Lincoln Lawyer” was “The Diplomat,” whose Season 2 debut on Oct. 31 boosted the series to reach 1.08 billion viewing minutes on Netflix during the week, coming in at the No. 2 spot on the overall most-watched streaming list. Nielsen data shows that viewers ages 50 and over made up 71% of the show’s viewership for the week.

“Lost” came next with 967 million viewing minutes across Netflix and Hulu, coming in at No. 3 on the overall most-streamed list and No. 1 on the acquired TV list. “Family Guy” scored the No. 4 spot on the overall list with 906 million viewing minutes on Hulu, while Tyler Perry’s “Beauty in Black” took fifth place in its second week with 833 million minutes viewed on Netflix. “Beauty in Black,” which was the No. 3 most-watched original series, saw success among Black audiences, who made up 63% of its audience.

Notably, “Agatha All Along” came in at the No. 10 spot on the overall top 10 list, and came in at No. 5 on the streaming originals list with 744 million viewing minutes on Disney+ — ahead of “Only Murders in the Building” — as it debuted its final two episodes.

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“Dancing With the Stars” concluded its 33rd season with a ratings bang.

Tuesday’s finale of “Dancing With the Stars” brought in 6.36 million viewers on ABC — the biggest audience the ballroom dancing show has seen since its Season 29 finale in November 2020, according to Nielsen live-plus-same-day figures.

The finale episode also drew a 1.14 rating in the key broadcast demo among adults 18-49, ranking as the show’s highest demo rating since the Season 29 premiere in September 2020. Tuesday’s episode further pulled in the show’s biggest demo viewership for a finale in seven years, since May 2018.

As five couples performed their final dances in the hopes of winning the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy, the finale saw a record-breaking 32 million votes as fans backed their favorite pairs.

In addition to scoring both its biggest total and demo viewership since Season 29, the Season 33 finale posted double-digit gains when compared to last season’s finale, increasing its total viewership by 16% and its demo viewership by 70%.

The “DWTS” finale excelled in other key demos as well, pulling in a 1.27 rating among adults 18-34, a 1.61 rating among women 18-49, a 1.9 rating among women 18-34 and a 0.65 rating among men 18-34.

Tuesday’s finale boosted ABC to win the night amongst its broadcast counterparts, with “DWTS” outpacing “The Voice” — its closest broadcast competitor — by 226% as the NBC show brought in a 0.35 rating. The “Dancing” finale also ranked as the highest rated regularly scheduled primetime entertainment telecast since NBC’s “This Is Us” finale, which brought in a 1.28 rating in May 2022.

Season 33 of “Dancing With the Stars” averaged a 0.77 rating, ranking as the No. 1 entertainment series among adults 18-49 for the first time ever.

As the final five couples — Chandler Kinney and Brandon Armstrong; Danny Amendola and Witney Carson; Joey Graziadei and Jenna Johnson; Ilona Maher and Alan Bersten; and Stephen Nedoroscik and Rylee Arnold — took the stage for the last time this season, Graziadei and Johnson were crowned as Season 33’s winning couple.

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Holiday romcoms “The Merry Gentlemen” and “Hot Frosty” dominated Netflix’s list of most-watched movies this week.

“The Merry Gentlemen,” which stars Chad Michael Murray and Britt Robertson, debuted as the No. 1 most-watched movie during the week of Nov. 18 with 14.7 million views, while Lacey Chabert and Dustin Milligan-led “Hot Frosty” took second place with 12.7 million views in its second week on the streamer. Christina Milian’s “Meet Me Next Christmas” slid down to the No. 7 spot on the English movies list with 5.9 million views in its third week after coming in second place last week.

“Spellbound” took the third spot on the most-watched movies list with 8.5 million views, surpassing “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” which took the No. 4 spot with 7.8 million views, as well as “Ready or Not,” which took fifth place with 7.5 million views after a resurgence that took the 2019 horror-comedy into the streamer’s top 10 movies for the second week in a row.

On the TV front, Ted Danson’s “A Man on the Inside” debuted to 6.9 million views during the week of Nov. 18, ranking as Netflix’s most-watched English TV show of the week.

“Arcane” Season 2 trailed behind “A Man on the Inside” with 6.4 million views in its third week in the top 10, while “Cobra Kai” Season 6 took third place with 5.7 million views and “Outer Banks” Season 4 took fourth place on the list with 2.7 million views. “Arcane” Season 1 also made it into the top 10 with 2.2 million views in the No. 5 spot, ahead of new arrival “Our Oceans,” which is narrated by former President Barack Obama and took the No. 6 spot with 2.1 million views.

After the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight broke records as the most-streamed global sporting event ever, the boxing event grew its audience enough to crack the top 10 TV list for the week. The fight, which scored 46.6 million views last week as Netflix’s most-watched program, added 1.8 million views this week, coming in at the No. 9 spot on the list.

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The Walt Disney Company has extended its lead over YouTube in Nielsen’s Media Distributor Gauge for October, finishing the month with a share of 11.7% in the company’s monthly snapshot of total broadcast, cable and streaming consumption that occurs through a television screen.

The company was boosted by a 7% increase in viewing to ABC broadcast affiliates as a result of NFL and college football, as well as the consistent performance of “ABC World News Tonight,” as well as an 8% bump in ESPN viewership driven by football and baseball – the largest gain among Disney’s cable networks.

Meanwhile, the Google-owned video platform held steady month-over-month with a share of 10.6%.

Rounding out the top five was NBCUniversal with a 9.2% share, Paramount with a 8.7% share and Fox with a record 8.4% share. The milestone for Fox was the second straight month that it notched the largest monthly increase among all reported media distributors, with overall viewing up 16% in October, or +1.1 percentage points.

Fox broadcast affiliates were up 16% in October, driven by sporting events including NFL and college football, MLB playoffs and World Series Games 1 and 2. From a cable network perspective, election-related coverage boosted Fox News Channel to a 12% viewing increase in October, and FS1 shot up over 260%, due primarily to its MLB National League Championship Series games. Fox also benefited from a 2.5% lift in Tubi viewing. 

Among the 14 companies reported in the Media Distributor Gauge, nine of them exhibited monthly shifts of +/- 0.1 share point or less in October. The Roku Channel was an exception, however, tallying the second largest monthly increase among distributors with a 12% gain over September to lift the FAST service to a platform-best 1.8% share of TV.

Netflix finished the month with a share of 7.5%, followed by Warner Bros. Discovery with 6.7%, Amazon with 3.6%, Scripps with 2%, Weigel Broadcasting with 1.2%, A&E Networks with 1% and AMC Networks with 0.9%.

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MSNBC and CNN have shed hundreds of thousands of viewers while Fox News viewership has skyrocketed after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election.

From the day after the election to date, MSNBC has averaged a total day viewership of 521,000 — down 38% from its 2024 average through election day — while CNN averaged 367,000 total viewers — a 27% decline from before the election, according to Nielsen figures. Meanwhile Fox News saw a
41% boost in total day viewership, now averaging 2.001 million viewers.

Primetime viewership similarly cratered for MSNBC and CNN, with MSNBC seeing a 48% decline following the election with an average viewership of
691,000, while CNN slid 35% to average 470,000 viewers. Fox News’ primetime audience meanwhile grew 34% with an average viewership of 3.157 million.

MSNBC’s ratings in key cable demo among adults 25-54 also slid
53% in primetime and 41% in total day, while CNN’s demo audience dropped 35% in primetime and 26% in total day. Likewise, Fox News saw a 46% jump in demo viewership in primetime while the network’s total day demo viewership soared
49%.

To date, Fox News now holds 73% of the cable news audience in primetime viewers, with MSNBC taking 16% of the share while CNN trails behind with 11%. In the key demo, Fox News has 71% of primetime cable news audiences while CNN has 17% and MSNBC has 11%

Ratings for MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” continued to drop after hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski revealed that they had met with Donald Trump, with Wednesday’s episode ranking as its lowest-rated program since 2021, with just 51,000 viewers in the key cable demo among adults 25-54. On Wednesday, “Morning Joe” averaged 647,000 total viewers — down 43% from the show’s average Q3 viewership — and 51,000 viewers in the demo — down 60% from the Q3 average.

Since the hosts revealed their meeting with Trump on Monday, the show’s average viewership has dropped day-by-day. While Monday’s episode — which saw hour-by-hour drop off — averaged 770,000 total viewers, Tuesday’s episode dropped to 680,000 viewers and Wednesday’s episode saw a total viewership of 647,000.

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Taylor Sheridan’s “Landman” debuted as the most-watched series premiere Paramount+ has seen in two years.

The series premiere of “Landman” brought in 5.2 million viewers as it debuted Sunday on Paramount+ and aired on Paramount Network immediately after a new episode of “Yellowstone,” according to VideoAmp viewing figures. (CBS typically reports ratings figures from Nielsen, though they are currently in the midst of an ongoing contract dispute).

“Landman” ranked as the biggest global series premiere the streamer has seen in two years, and joined “Tulsa King” and “1923” as the top three biggest season launches in Paramount+ history. In the U.S. alone, “Landman” ranked as Paramount+’s most-watched premiere within its first three days.

The news comes as Sheridan’s “Yellowstone” debuted the second part of its fifth season to impressive viewership, with the Season 5B premiere bringing 16.4 million viewers on Paramount Network, which grew 29% to 21 million viewers after three days of viewing. The Season 5B debut now ranks as the most-watched premiere in “Yellowstone” history.

Co-created by Sheridan and Christian Wallace, “Landman” is set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas and is a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the world of oil rigs, per the official logline. Billy Bob Thornton stars in “Landman” alongside Demi Moore, Ali Larter and Jon Hamm.

Sheridan and Wallace executive produce the series alongside David C. Glasser, David Hutkin, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, Geyer Kosinski, Michael Friedman and Stephen Kay. Dan Friedkin and Jason Hoch EP for Imperative Entertainment while and J.K. Nickell and Megan Creydt executive produce for “Texas Monthly.” “Landman” is produced by MTV Entertainment Studios, 101 Studios and Sheridan’s Bosque Ranch Productions.

New episodes of “Landman” stream every Sunday on Paramount+.

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Update: While the 6 a.m. hour — when the hosts revealed their meeting with Trump — had a live-plus-same-day viewership of 839,000, new Nielsen figures provided by MSNBC shows that 413,000 viewers within the total audience for the hour came from time-shifted viewing from viewers who watched the show from their DVR recording later in the day on Monday, Nov. 18. As news of the hosts’ announcement circulated throughout the day, time-shifted viewing for the 6 a.m. hour was up 77% compared to the prior week’s average viewing.

Without accounting for time-shifted viewing, the 6 a.m. hour brought in 426,000 live viewers on Monday, which grew its audience to reach 530,000 total viewers in the 7 a.m. hour. While the combined live and time-shifted viewership saw a 17% drop-off in total viewers, the live viewership from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. actually saw a 24% increase. Live viewership continued to increase throughout the Nov. 18 episode of “Morning Joe,” with the 8 a.m. hour bringing in 705,000 viewers and the 9 a.m. hour bringing in 689,000 viewers.

Original story: “Morning Joe” took a hit to its viewership Monday after hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski revealed that they had met with President-elect Donald Trump. The revelation was met with decidedly mixed reactions online, and in real time, over 100,000 viewers turned the channel before 8 a.m.

After starting off with 839,000 total viewers in the 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. hour on Monday morning, total viewership for “Morning Joe” dropped to 694,000 in the 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. time slot following the hosts’ explanation of their meeting, according to Nielsen live-plus-same-day figures. The 17% drop off in viewership is pretty unusual from the 6 a.m. to 7 a.m., with viewership typically growing as bigger audiences tune in for their morning news.

Still, viewership grew in the final two hours of the broadcast compared to the 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. hour, with the 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. hour growing its audience to 775,000 viewers and most of that audience sticking around for the 9 a.m. to 1o a.m. hour, which brought in 770,000 viewers. From the first hour of the broadcast, “Morning Joe” saw a 8% audience decline into the last hour of the broadcast.

A similar trend can be seen in “Morning Joe” ratings in the key cable demo among adults 25-54, with the 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. hour bringing in 113,000 viewers in the demo before declining 38% to reach just 70,000 viewers in the demo for the 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. hour.

Ratings grew at 8 a.m. to reach 83,000 viewers in the demo for the next hour, before dropping slightly to 79,000 viewers in the demo for the 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. hour. That marks a 30% downtick in ratings from the broadcast’s first hour until its final hour.

“Morning Joe” continued to see a ratings decline on Tuesday, when the program averaged 680,000 total viewers — down 11.7% from Monday’s viewership of 770,00 — and scored a demo viewership of 76,o00 — down 11.6% from Monday’s demo viewership of 86,000.

Tuesday’s broadcast of “Morning Joe” was the show’s third lowest broadcast of 2024, with its total viewership down 38% from its average 2024 viewership to date while ratings slid 37% from the show’s average viewership for the demo.

The meeting between the MSNBC hosts and Trump aimed to “restart communications,” Brzezinski said on the Monday morning broadcast, adding “Joe and I realized it’s time to do something different and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump but also talking with him.” The news was not received fondly by many viewers, and CNN reported Tuesday the hosts met with the president-elect because they were “credibly concerned that they could face governmental and legal harassment.”

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Lacey Chabert and Dustin Milligan-led “Hot Frosty” debuted as Netflix’s most-watched movie of the week.

The holiday flick brought in 16 million views from its Nov. 13 release through Sunday, Nov. 19, ranking as the top title on Netflix’s most-watched movie list for the week of Nov. 11. That viewership paled in comparison to the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight, though, which brought in a whopping 46.6 million views, ranking as the most-watched title of the week.

The 46.6 million views includes both the main Tyson-Paul fight, as well as the three other fights that transpired before they entered the ring — Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano, Mario Barrios vs. Abel Ramos and Neeraj Goyat vs. Whindersson Nunes. From the opening to closing bell of the Tyson-Paul fight, an estimated average minute audience (AMA) of 108 million viewers tuned in live globally, making it the No. 1 TV show for the week.

“Arcane” Season 2 was the week’s No. 2 most-watched TV program with 7.4 million views, narrowly outpacing “Cobra Kai” Season 6, which also brought in 7.4 million views in the No. 3 spot on the most-watched TV list. “Outer Banks” Season 4 came next with 6.1 million views in its sixth week on the list, while the Tyson-Paul fight boosted “Countdown: Paul vs. Tyson” to the No. 5 spot with 4.8 million views.

“The Diplomat” Season 2 scored 3.3 million views in its third week on the list, ranking as the No. 6 most-watched show of the week, ahead of “Investigation Alien,” which brought in 3 million views in seventh place on the list.

“Hot Frosty” wasn’t the only holiday movie to dominate viewership during the week, with Christina Milian-led “Meet Me Next Christmas” taking the No. 2 spot on the most-watched movie list with 11.8 million views after first debuting on Nov. 6. “Minions: The Rise of Gru” came in third place with 7 million views, while “Alita: Battle Angel” took fourth place with 6.2 million views and “Focus” took fifth place with 5.4 million views.

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“Dune: Prophecy” debuted to a lukewarm audience.

The series premiere of “Dune: Prophecy” brought in 1.2 million viewers across HBO and Max on Sunday, according to Warner Bros. Discovery internal data. Viewership for the debut episode of “Dune: Prophecy” was on par with “The Penguin,” whose series premiere scored 1.4 million cross-platform viewers on a Thursday, before “The Batman” spinoff series moved to Sundays.

Viewership for the debut episode of “Dune: Prophecy” saw a 75% uptick the day after its premiere, growing to reach 2.1 million viewers across platforms.

“The Penguin,” which aired its finale just a week before “Dune: Prophecy” took over HBO’s coveted Sunday night spot, grew to 2.1 million viewers for its finale, marking a series high. Its series premiere went on to draw 18 million viewers in the U.S. since its Sept. 19 debut. 

The premiere of “Dune: Prophecy” paled in comparison to the series premiere of “The Last of Us,” which brought in 4.7 million viewers across HBO and Max in January 2023. At the time, that series marked HBO’s second-largest debut — behind only “House of the Dragon” — since “Boardwalk Empire” premiered on the network in 2010.

Taking place 10,000 years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, the “Dune” prequel series follows two Harkonnen sisters as they combat forces that threaten the future of humankind and establish the fabled sect that will become known as the Bene Gesserit, per the official logline.

Emily Watson, Olivia Williams, Travis Fimmel, Jodhi May and Mark Strong star in “Dune: Prophecy” alongside Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Josh Heuston, Chloe Lea, Jade Anouka, Faoileann Cunningham, Edward Davis, Aoife Hinds, Chris Mason, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Camilla Beeput, Jihae, Tabu, Charithra Chandran, Jessica Barden, Emma Canning and Yerin Ha. 

New episodes of the six-episode season debut Sundays at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and Max.

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Netflix’s telecast of the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson boxing match on Friday scored 108 million viewers worldwide, according to the streamer.

Friday’s bout, which also featured three other fights, became the most-streamed global sporting event ever, peaking at 65 million live concurrent streams, with 38 million concurrent streams in the U.S. alone. Between 12 a.m. and 1 a.m. ET, the Paul-Tyson fight accounted for 56% of all U.S. TV viewing, according to TVision.

The match-up between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano averaged 74 million live viewers globally, becoming the most-watched professional women’s sporting event in U.S. history with an average minute audience (AMA) of 47 million.

After drawing in an AMA of 108 million viewers from the event’s opening to closing bell, viewership for the Paul-Tyson fight grew to reach an AMA of 125 million, according to live-plus-one-day figures.

The event, whose live stream was plagued by glitches for an undisclosed number of users as it streamed live, was the No. 1 most-watched title for Netflix for the week with 46.6 million views from Friday night through Sunday night. It also drew a large global audience, ranking as the No. 1 most-watched program in 78 countries — including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, South Africa and the U.K., while landing within the Top 10 in 91 countries for the week of Nov. 11-17.

The Paul-Tyson fight was also watched by more than 1 million viewers from over 6,000 bars and restaurants in the U.S., according to estimations from Joe Hand Promotions, setting a record for commercial distribution of a combat sports event.

The fight, which was produced by Most Valuable Promotions and EverWonder, was also buzzy across social media as it generated over 1.4 billion owned impression across Netflix’s global social channels. #PaulTyson was the No. 1 trending topic worldwide on X, with #Serrano coming in at No. 2.

The highly anticipated fight was won by Paul with unanimous decision after the full eight rounds.

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