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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix pulled out all the stops for the launch of Squid Game Season 2, and it appears to have paid off. The highly anticipated seven-episode second season, which launched on December 26, raked in 68M views in its first three days on the streamer. It was No. 1 on the weekly non-English TV…

UPDATED: As expected, Netflix boasted quite an impressive audience for its two Christmas Day NFL matchups. The Chiefs-Steelers and Ravens-Texans games, the first-ever NFL games on the streamer, put up an unduplicated audience of nearly 65 million U.S. viewers on December 25, according to Live+Same…

The BBC took its domination of the Christmas Day UK TV ratings into Boxing Day with Call the Midwife and Outnumbered topping the charts. The Christmas specials of the long-running BBC shows both peaked with around 4M viewers, placing them first and second on the Boxing Day list. The ratings…

While LeBron James is one-half of a long-discussed debate about the greatest of all time, there’s no question that the NBA’s Yuletide matchup between the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors delivered — ratings- and thrill-wise. Per the league, the game was the most-watched NBA Regular Season and…

UPDATED: Ratings update from the ranch: Live+3 results reveal that the Season 5B Yellowstone finale, with 13.1 million total viewers, was the most-watched episode in the series’ history. It was also was the most-watched season in series history with 13.6 million average viewers. It was up 3% versus…

Dexter: Original Sin seems like it’s off to a killer start. The series premiere racked up 2.1M global viewers across Paramount+ and Showtime in the first three days of availability, according to Paramount Global. The company also says it Showtime’s most-streamed premiere ever, although it didn’t…

Saturday Night’s Main Event returned to strong audience ratings over the weekend. The WWE’s two-hour showdown brought in 2.3M viewers on NBC and Peacock. As expected, a majority of the audience came from the broadcaster, while about 700,000 tuned in via streaming. This is the first Saturday Night…

Once again, Netflix hit a home run with its latest holiday film. Carry-On, the airport Christmas thriller starring Taron Egerton, Jason Bateman, and Sofia Carson, managed to top the English films list with 42M views. It was, undoubtedly, the most-watched title of the week and, in fact, had the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Peanuts gang helped boost Fox to a Thanksgiving ratings win last month, as the network delivered its highest-rated and most-watched Thursday with entertainment programming in two years. Fox averaged 4.6M viewers across new episodes of The Masked Singer and The Floor, according to live…

Goodbye anxiety, hello joy! Pixar’s Dream Productions is off to a promising start on Disney+. The first episode drove 5.6 million views globally in the first five days of viewing, making it the streamer’s biggest animated series premiere since What If…? debuted in 2021, according to Disney. As a…

Blue Bloods came to an end last week after 14 seasons, and it seems that fans paid attention. The CBS drama hit a season high, according to the network with an average of 6.68M live+same day viewers, according to data from VideoAmp. The network and VideoAmp claimed that the finale episode "could…

EXCLUSIVE: Plenty to be merry about at Freeform, thanks to the network’s 25 Days of Christmas. The annual month-long event kicked off with Freeform’s most-watched week of the year in both total day and primetime from December 1 to 8. The viewership surge was led by Home Alone 2: Lost in New York…