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March looks like a great month for movie and series lovers, especially for those who are subscribed to Disney+. The Ott platform’s roster is filled with blockbuster movies, highly anticipated TV series, and fresh content for all ages. Whether you’re a Marvel fan, a Star Wars fanatic, or just looking for something to keep your kid entertained while you work or relax, Disney+ has something for everyone.

From brand-new original series to the latest theatrical releases making their streaming debut, March’s lineup has a little bit of everything. By now, you might be wondering what to watch and when—but don’t worry! We’ve got you covered. Below, we’ve listed all the original Disney+ releases and their premiere dates so you can plan your schedule and take your work leaves accordingly.

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Starting the list strong,...

Jake Paul‘s November bout against Mike Tyson was one of the biggest Netflix broadcasts of 2024, but not even an influencer boxing spectacle can top the most popular 3D characters in the world of children’s entertainment. Entertainment company Moonbug reported that its hit franchise CoComelon was the most-viewed show of the year on Netflix, totaling 231.1 million views.

After years of secrecy regarding its traffic, Netflix has started sharing precise viewership data in biannual reports. Though Netflix’s data dumps may inflate some statistics because of how the streamer counts views, the What We Watched report offers a broad look at the programs and trends that have won over Netflix subscribers.

During the second half of 2024, many Netflix viewers had their eyes glued on the Paul/Tyson tilt. Beyond its concurrent live audience, which peaked at 65 million, the broadcast has also attracted 49 million views on-demand. That made it Netflix’s...

Sometimes you know what people are watching on Netflix just by being part of culture. It’s not going to shock anyone to learn that “Squid Game” and the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight were, indeed, hits.

But when you dive further into the streamer’s data, weirder trends begin to emerge.

For example, did you know that in the last six months of 2024, people were all about “Prison Break” and that audiences were watching that nearly 20-year-old Fox series far more than both “Lost” or “Dexter”? Well, now you do.

Following the streamer’s release of its most watched titles from July to December of 2024, TheWrap combed through the top 100 TV titles in search for trends. Then we went a bit beyond that just for fun. From “Squid Game” Season 2 to “Tokyo Swindlers,” here’s what the world was watching in the second half of 2024.

“Prison Break” (Credit: Fox) Altogether,...

Disney Branded Television has ordered a fifth season of Disney Jr. and Marvel’s preschool megahit Marvel’s Spidey and his Amazing Friends. The news comes on the heels of the series recently moving ahead of both Paw Patrol and Cocomelon to become the No. 2 streaming series for Kids and Boys 2-5 during the last quarter of 2024, second only to Bluey.

“‘Marvel’s Spidey and his Amazing Friends’ is what happens when two storytelling powerhouses — Marvel and Disney Jr. — come together to introduce the next generation to the world of Super Heroes,” said Ayo Davis, president of Disney Branded Television.

“We love this show, and it’s been incredible to see how much kids do too. Team Spidey’s adventures aren’t slowing down anytime soon, and we can’t wait to bring even more stories, characters and action-packed fun for years to come.”

Brad Winderbaum, head of Marvel Television and Marvel Animation,...

Marvel’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends has been renewed for a fifth season by Disney Branded Television. This announcement comes as the show’s third season is airing on Disney Jr., with Season 4 set to premiere this summer.

The show has become a big hit with kids. In late 2024, it was the second-most-watched streaming show for children ages 2-5, even beating out popular shows like ‘Paw Patrol’ and ‘Cocomelon’. It only trails behind ‘Bluey’. The series has also hit one billion hours watched on Disney Jr. and Disney+, with over two billion views on YouTube through Disney Jr. and Marvel HQ channels.

Besides TV, the show’s success extends into toys, books, and music. It ranks among the top five best-selling preschool toy brands worldwide and has released soundtracks through Walt Disney Records. There’s even a stage show, ‘Disney Jr. Live on Tour: Let’s Play’, that features a segment with Spidey.

“Marvel’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends” has been renewed for a fifth season by Disney Branded Television. The news comes as Season 3 airs on Disney Jr. and ahead of Season 4’s summer debut.

Per Nielsen, in the last quarter of 2024, “Marvel’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends” was the second-most-watched streaming show among kids age 2-5, and remained No. 2 when isolating for boys 2-5. In that demographic, it beat popular preschool series “Paw Patrol” and “Cocomelon,” usurped only by smash hit “Bluey.” Overall, the series has reached one billion hours watched on Disney Jr. and Disney+, and on YouTube, it has hit 2 billion views across Disney Jr. and Marvel HQ’s channels.

“Marvel’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends” ranks among the top five best-selling preschool toy licenses worldwide, per Circana. The franchise extends to books and music, with Marvel Press releasing a “My First Comic” based on the series,...

Despite the increasing popularity of anime, there was only one anime series that made the Top 10 globally for Netflix Original releases in 2024. This is despite the numerous major anime released during the year, some of which had been hyped through the roof.

However, even with this competition, a rather experimental Gundam series was ultimately the only anime to hit a particular milestone for the streaming service. Mobile Suit Gundam remains one of the biggest anime franchises in the world, with many of the shows available to stream on various platforms. Almost always a popular watch, the most recent series attained an interesting and unexpected level of success in 2024, especially on streaming platform Netflix.

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NCIS is still one of the most streamed shows in the world. Even with all the new content available on streaming services, NCIS remains high on the list.

October 2024 numbers have revealed that the trend continues, and those numbers could even see a boost during the upcoming winter hiatus.

Last year, NCIS finished third place for the top 10 overall streaming programs. Those numbers measure how many minutes a show is streamed on a service.

It may be difficult for fans to grasp the overall numbers, but Nielsen reported that NCIS was streamed 39.4 billion minutes in 2023. These minutes are accrued from the 400+ episodes NCIS has released over many years.

Nielsen combines the numbers from each user as they watch portions or full episodes of NCIS. For instance, binge-watching 10 straight episodes leads to roughly 420 to 440 minutes of streaming time (hour-long episodes are shorter when removing the commercials).

Suits was reportedly the most-streamed...

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This week, viewership is down across the board in the U.S. Top 50. Four of the top five channels in the ranking got fewer viewers this week than they did during the previous seven-day period. That left reigning chart-topper Toys and Colors as the only U.S.-based channel with at least 500 million weekly views.

Kids content is still a big draw among American YouTube viewers, with family-sized operations like Vlad and Niki (#5) and Like Nastya (#6) hovering close to Toys and Colors and the rest of the chart leaders. But there are also some bigger fish in the waters of children’s entertainment,...

Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story led Nielsen’s streaming charts for a second straight week — and grew substantially from its debut.

The Ryan Murphy-produced series was the top title for the week of Sept. 23-29 with just under 2.4 billion minutes of viewing time. That’s a 40 percent improvement on the drama’s opening week (it premiered Sept. 19), which had 1.72 billion minutes of watch time, and the highest total for any streaming series in Nielsen’s rankings since Bridgerton hit 2.47 billion minutes in June.

Two other Netflix series had strong opening weeks: Rom-com Nobody Wants This premiered to 1.04 billion minutes of viewing, and the docuseries Mr. McMahon, about World Wrestling Entertainment impresario Vince McMahon, had 908 million minutes.

On the film chart, Inside Out 2 debuted on Disney+ to 1.82 billion minutes of watch time, the second highest weekly total for any film this year, behind only Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F...

Former Netflix executive Beatriz Miller is joining Moonbug Entertainment as the company’s senior director of distribution and originals for North America as the studio looks to ramp up its expansion in the market through originals and distribution of shows such as “CoComelon,” “Blippi” and “Little Angel.”

Miller joins after a seven-year stint at the streamer, where she most recently worked in global strategy and operations, leading cross-functional and cross-regional teams in developing and implementing new frameworks, processes and tools for content acquisition. She also managed end-to-end commercial deals with external partners. Before Netflix, Miller served as NBCUniversal and Telemundo’s head of global digital media and rights distribution, where she directed a team responsible for international distribution and oversaw commercial deals.

“As a longtime admirer of the global entertainment powerhouse Moonbug Entertainment has become, I am so excited to join the team and help supercharge the company’s North America expansion,...

Netflix has picked up streaming rights to Glitch Studios‘ megaviral animation series The Amazing Digital Circus—but, unlike with most deals it signs, it’s giving up exclusivity and isn’t going to pull Tadc off original home YouTube. In fact, moving forward, all episodes of Tadc will premiere for free on YouTube and for subscription on Netflix on the very same day.

Netflix has done this sort of deal before with preschool hit Cocomelon, which also found its first home on YouTube and drives 2 billion views a month there. As part of that partnership, Netflix developed its own exclusive Cocomelon series, Cocomelon Lane, but also airs the same content folks can find for free on YouTube.

That approach is the same one it’s taking with Tadc, and it’s a big difference for a streamer that normally produces its own shows in-house, or acquires outside productions for pretty...

It’s lonely at the top, but that’s the dilemma Netflix faces as the world’s largest streamer. The lack of competition for that title has left Netflix with plenty of time to experiment, including potentially borrowing the strategies of other streaming services like Apple TV+. That streamer’s parent company has reportedly considered changing the way it pays for streaming original TV shows and movies to reward better quality productions and save money upfront. A new report from Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw indicates that Netflix is considering doing the same.

Key Details: Netflix wants to pay creators less initially, and more on the back end if their shows turn out to be a success. The streamer has already made several film deals along this line but denies it wants to do the same with TV. Shows like “Bridgerton” could see bigger financial windfalls if the new system is implemented.

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One of the most watched programs on Netflix (which is the world’s biggest streaming service) is Cocomelon, a kid’s show if you are a parent you probably know that it is one of the most boring things to watch but you have to because the kids love the bright colors and simple stories. What if I told you that Netflix also has brilliant kids shows that you will also find entertaining? So, if you are looking for compelling stories, complex characters, and an entertaining time here are the best kid’s shows on Netflix you can find right now.

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Netflix released its semi-annual data dump on Thursday, unveiling viewership for the streamer’s biggest hits — and not so big releases — from January through June of 2024.

While the most-watched seasons of TV during the six-month interval included “Fool Me Once,” “Bridgerton” Season 3, “Baby Reindeer” and “The Gentlemen,” a group of winners have arisen from the data dump, including children’s TV as a whole — including “Peppa Pig” — “Young Sheldon” and buzzy crime docs like “Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal.”

As the streamer continues to bolster its live event programming, the success of “The Roast of Tom Brady” followed in the footsteps of “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage” as it found an eager audience, whereas the first-ever livestream of the SAG-AFTRA Awards earlier this year didn’t do much for Netflix, viewership-wise.

For the full breakdown of the biggest TV-centric revelations from Netflix’s data dump for the first half of 2024, see below.

Netflix’s original shows and movies typically dominate the streamer’s most-viewed content rankings. But it still serves up hundreds of millions of hours of content licensed from third parties, as shown by Netflix’s massive data dump for viewing covering the first half of 2024.

Not surprisingly, kids content continues to fare well — extremely well. No. 1 on the TV side is perennial preschool favorite “CoComelon,” from Moonbug Entertainment, which pulled in 124.5 million views in aggregate. And that doesn’t include the two seasons of “CoComelon Lane” (34.4 million), which is a Netflix original produced by Moonbug. In addition, Moonbug’s “Little Angel” series garnered 52.4 million views over its five volumes.

Following “CoComelon” was another children’s TV staple: British animated show “Peppa Pig,” with 117.4 million views over six seasons. “Young Sheldon,” the spinoff the “The Big Bang Theory” that just ended its run on CBS last spring, came in strong with...

Barney is back with an all-new animated series from Mattel and Warner Bros. Discovery. The animated “Barney’s World” will premiere Oct. 14 on Max.

It will be followed by a linear premiere on Cartoon Network on Oct. 18. Select episodes will also be available to watch on YouTube starting on Oct. 11. There will be 52 episodes in this first season, each of which will be 11 minutes long.

This will mark the first time in 14 years that the iconic purple dinosaur is returning to television. This new iteration will be set in a playground where Barney is joined by his friends Billy and Baby Bop, as well as their three kid best friends: David, Mel and Vivie. As they go on action-packed and music-filled adventures, Barney will help his new friends and the audience explore big emotions as they learn to love themselves, others and their communities.

The dinos of “Barney’s World” will include...

The first live-action addition to the CoComelon universe is coming this fall. The most-watched kids’ channel on YouTube — which counts more than 186 billion lifetime views on its flagship channel — is giving teacher Ms. Appleberry her own spinoff called Melon Patch Classroom.

Details about Melon Patch Classroom are limited at this time, but the series will center around a character who was introduced in one of CoComelon’s billion-view sing-alongs. She is a preschool teacher whose students include JJ, the animated character who has become the de facto face of the CoComelon brand.

Melon Patch Classroom will offer the same blend of music, comedy, and edutainment that has vaulted CoComelon to unprecedented viewership. The brand owned by media company Moonbug (which is itself a subsidiary of Candle Media) often ranks as the most-watched YouTube channel of the week. In addition, Netflix data from the first half of 2023 identified CoComelon as the...

It’s a gathering that will bring together CEOs and CMOs, owners of NFTs and MBAs, trading card and pin collectors and a healthy dose of social media creators, podcasters and influencers. VeeCon, which runs Aug. 9-11 in downtown Los Angeles, is at its core an expression of the multitudes contained by serial entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk.

“We want to be the coolest business conference,” Vaynerchuk told Variety. The event will highlight Vaynerchuk’s various businesses with a strong emphasis on his budding kids brand VeeFriends. It also hopes to buck the downtrend in the world of Web3, NFTs and disruptive digital technologies by growing the VeeFriends characters and storytelling eco-system through digital and video content.

“The world underestimates the sheer power and attention that sits on social media,” Vaynerchuk says. “A lot of people wish it wasn’t that way.”

Vaynerchuk’s VaynerWatt arm has teamed with “CocoMelon” producer Moonbug Entertainment...

TV commercials are practically a synonym for annoyance. But for Gen Alpha, YouTube ads are a can’t miss even when they are a can skip.

According to a new study by Precise TV and Giraffe Insights, most kids ages 2-12 recall the ads they see on YouTube more than any other platform. YouTube delivers 2.3-times better ad recall compared to broadcast and cable television and 2.6-times greater ad recall than video-on-demand.

The results are similar to ones that Precise and Giraffe released last year, when the groups found that 60 percent of teens 13-17 were more likely to watch YouTube ads rather than skip.

Why are kids not skipping YouTube ads? Ok, so some of the ads are just not skippable, but there are reasons far beyond — and far better than — that. For starters, YouTube has best-in-class video ads from a targeting perspective, and contextual relevance is key for an...

“Success in streaming is really about engagement” and finding hits is “more art than science,” such as data exercises or algorithm-driven work, Netflix co-ceo Greg Peters said in London on Tuesday. With the global streamer now reaching about 270 million, he said a conservative estimate of an average of two viewers per home means the streamer serves more than 500 million viewers worldwide.

“Variety and quality” is key “to satisfy this audience” given their diverse tastes, he said at Deloitte’s Media & Telecoms 2024 and Beyond Conference, . “We need a lot of great stories that appeal to these different tastes,” he said. “No algorithm” or data could have predicted the success of Sex Education, the exec noted, highlighting content decisions are “more art than data.”

“You never know where the next gem might be,” he noted, adding that Netflix’s goal is to find “the next obsession.” The key here is to have...

Moonbug Entertainment, the kids media company behind Netflix’s massively popular “CoComelon” series, appointed Courtney Holt its new managing director for the Americas. Holt takes over the position from Andy Yeatman, who is departing Moonbug for an unspecified new gig.

Holt, a digital media veteran who has worked at Spotify and Disney, joined Moonbug earlier this year as the company’s first global head of music and strategic audio initiatives, areas he will continue to oversee in his newly expanded role.

As Moonbug’s head of the Americas, Holt will oversee the company’s originals strategy, leading the commercial teams in North America that create and distribute film and TV content through a network of global partners. Holt reports to René Rechtman, founder and CEO of Moonbug. Chief creative officer Richard Hickey will continue to lead the company’s creative teams globally.

“As a parent, I’m inspired by Moonbug’s ability to craft CoComelon,...

Kids only seemed to want to watch one show on Netflix in the latter half of 2023.

The streamer’s latest data dump – read more here – reveals that episodes of Moonbug Entertainment’s CoComelon were watched more than 200 million times from July to December, with all eight seasons appearing in the top 100.

Taken together, all views of seasons of CoComelon made it one of the most-watched in the top 100. The eighth season alone was watched 37.6 million times and most seasons featured in the top 50.

Starting life on YouTube, the show features children, adults and animals who sing songs and nursery rhymes and go about their daily lives. It has been a huge success for Candle Media-owned Moonbug, which has expanded rapidly since its launch, birthing the likes of Blippi and Little Baby Bum.

Speaking to Deadline earlier this year, Moonbug Emea boss Nicolas Eglau said the company’s push into...

Netflix has just released another round of viewership data.

After pulling back the curtain on its data for the first time last year, the streamer quietly dropped the insights for the second half of 2023, publishing the second What We Watched report on Thursday without as much fanfare as the last round. As Netflix pointed out previously, the initiative aims to document the the full picture instead of the existing glimpses of only the top-performing programming.

According to the report, audiences watched 90B hours of Netflix content from July to December 2023, which is on par with the first half of the year.

The top-ranking title in the latest report appears to be the apocalyptic film Leave the World Behind with 121M views.

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The most-watched series is One Piece with more than half a billion hours viewed, translating to just under 72M total views.

Dystopian thriller “Leave the World Behind” was the most-watched film — and title overall — on Netflix globally in the second half of 2023, while anime-inspired live action series “One Piece” led on the TV side among individual series seasons.

The data comes from Netflix’s second edition of “What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report,” reflecting viewership on the streamer from July-December 2023 covering 99% of all viewing on Netflix. Subscribers across the world watched about 90 billion hours of Netflix in the second half of 2023, compared with 93 billion hours in the first half of the year.

Netflix released its first big data dump, covering the first half of 2023, last December. In the second report, released Thursday, the company has added runtime and views (total hours viewed divided by runtime) and separated films and TV series, syncing it up with its weekly Top 10 and Most Popular lists.

“Leave the World Behind,” Netflix’s No. 5 most popular movie of all time,...

Candle Media-owned kids company Moonbug Entertainment is opening a branch in Miami.

Manuel Reveiz has been drafted in to lead the office as Head of Distribution and Partnerships, Latin America.

He will be responsible for Moonbug’s presence in Latin American countries, reporting in to Magaing Director for Emea, Apac and Global Distribution Nicolas Eglau. The focus will be on extending content syndication and channels through partnerships.

Reveiz joins from Paramount, where he has worked for almost 15 years, most recently as Vice President of Sales. During his time at the U.S. studio, his helped launch Paramount+, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr. and other linear networks in Latin America.

“CoComelon, Blippi, and Little Angel are some of the most beloved preschool shows in Latin America, earning millions of fans in the region.” Reveiz said. “I’m eager to expand its distribution to every potential partner.”

“Latin America is a key priority for Moonbug,...

If you don’t have kids, you may not have heard of “Gabby’s Dollhouse.” If you have a preschooler, it has likely become a welcome upgrade from the “Cocomelon” of your child’s nursery school days.

No intended shade at “Cocomelon,” the other monster hit for Netflix in the kids space. “Cocomelon” is simplistic animation set to familiar nursery rhymes — it’s a low lift both in terms of production and consumption. “Gabby’s,” a combination of (a little) live-action and (a lot of) animation, is a child’s entry point into storytelling and imaginative play. It was for my kids — and millions of others.

For 2023, the top 5 children’s series on streaming ranked like this, per Nielsen:

“Bluey” (43.9 billion minutes streamed on Disney+) “Cocomelon” (36.3 billion minutes streamed on Netflix) “SpongeBob Squarepants” (19.8 billion minutes streamed on Paramount+) “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse” (13.9 billion minutes streamed on Disney+) “Gabby’s Dollhouse” (12.8 billion minutes...

A new research revealed Naruto anime as the world’s most popular kids TV show in over 83 countries.

According to a comprehensive study conducted by data analysts at TheToyZone, Naruto has secured its place as the most sought-after kids’ TV show in a staggering 83 countries, surpassing all other contenders in popularity.

Naruto‘s global dominance extends across continents. It holds the top spot in North America (10 countries including Canada & Mexico), South America (7 countries including Brazil & Argentina), Europe (22 countries including Germany & France), the Middle East and Central Asia, and even Africa (22 countries).

Notably, Naruto’s home country, Japan, also features the show as the most popular children’s program.

TheToyZone attributes Naruto‘s global success to its engaging story, well-developed characters, exciting action sequences, and powerful themes like friendship, perseverance, and selflessness.

While Naruto emerged victorious, it was followed by CoComelon, a children’s Youtube channel featuring nursery rhymes and sing-alongs,...

Its a common problem you run into as a parent, babysitter, or any other person that has regular contact with kids. You need them to settle down. They beg and beg you to turn it on. Its all you hear about; the kids wear the characters on their clothes and shoes and lunchboxes and have all the toys. Thats right, were talking about childrens television. The bane of so many adult existences. Those colorful, loud, almost over-stimulating shows that kids seem to go crazy for. For this writer, it was series like Blues Clues and Little Bear or anything that was on the Noggin station, really but nowadays, it seems Pj Masks, Paw Patrol, and the godforsaken Cocomelon have taken their place. However, every once in a while, child wranglers are given an absolute gift: a kids' TV show that doesnt make their brain melt. And currently, dear readers, that savior show is Bluey.

One of the biggest kids series on the planet is coming to the big screen. DreamWorks Animation is in the works on “Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie” and has set it for release on September 26, 2025 from Universal Pictures.

“Gabby’s Dollhouse” is the DreamWorks mixed media series for preschoolers that airs on Netflix and, according to Nielsen, was the most-streamed series that’s original to streaming in 2023. Each episode follows a girl named Gabby unboxing a surprise before jumping into a fantastical animated world of adorable cats living inside Gabby’s dollhouse.

Traci Paige Johnson and Jennifer Twomey, who created the series, are executive producing the “Gabby’s Dollhouse” movie. Ryan Crego, who earned a Children’s and Family Emmy nomination for his TV feature “Arlo the Alligator Boy,” is directing the film.

In the new film, Gabby heads out on a road trip with her Grandma Gigi to the urban wonderland of Cat Francisco.

Naruto is the most popular kids' TV show in 83 countries, according to a study by TheToyZone. Naruto's appeal spans multiple age groups due to its action, themes, and character dynamics. The study compared Google searches in various countries, showcasing Naruto's worldwide popularity.

The story of Naruto is filled with many intense battles and profound themes that have earned the respect and attention of countless fans, so much so that it's become the most popular TV show for kids around the world. Based on the hit manga by Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto's tale explores the life of a discarded orphan who vows to become the most respected ninja in his village. While it's got great action, its emotional and character-rich story helped make it an appealing series for many.

In retrospect, Naruto's beginning is both better and worse than some fans may remember. Still, as soon as its first episode ends,...

The docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV posted Max’s best streaming numbers to date for its premiere week.

The show, which streamed on Max concurrent with its on-air premiere on ID, had 1.25 billion minutes of viewing for the week of March 18-24. That’s the largest weekly total for any series on Max in the nearly four years of Nielsen’s streaming rankings, edging out the 1.19 billion for The Last of Us in early 2023.

Netflix’s 3 Body Problem grabbed the overall No. 1 spot for the week (it premiered March 21), racking up 1.37 billion minutes over its first four days. The sci-fi series narrowly beat Prime Video’s remake of Road House, which had 1.32 billion minutes of viewing in the United States. Amazon had earlier claimed that the movie was Prime Video’s biggest film premiere worldwide so far.

Bluey (1.05 billion minutes) and Netflix’s docuseries...

Taylor Swift made her chart debut in Nielsen’s streaming rankings, as her concert movie The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) had a strong showing over its first four days of release on Disney+.

The film racked up 677 million minutes of viewing in the United States in the week of March 11-17 (it debuted on Disney+ on March 14), finishing second among movies and eighth among all titles for the week. Disney had previously said that The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) had 4.6 million views (defined as total viewing time divided by running time) worldwide over its first three days; the four days of Nielsen measurement translate to about 3.22 million views of the 3 1/2-hour film.

Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series The Gentlemen took the No. 1 overall spot for the week, moving up from third place a week earlier as it improved to 1.86 billion minutes of watch time from 1.21 billion. Millie Bobby Brown...

Ask any parent you know about children’s television, and no doubt you’ll receive some very passionate responses. Bluey is fun and entertaining. Cocomelon is an animated nightmare. Blue’s Clues is nostalgic and watchable. Pj Masks makes you wish television had never been invented. These strong opinions are to be expected. After all, parents and caregivers of children are subjected to hours and hours of these shows, so they're bound to end up with a take. No children’s show seems to have parents as divided as Paw Patrol, though. Some praise it, some despise it, but it remains a very popular franchise. Kids are simply enthralled by Ryder and his team of pups that save the citizens of Adventure Bay. So enthralled, in fact, that the Paw Patrol received a feature film, Paw Patrol: The Movie, in 2021 and now, the second film, Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie, was released last year.

There’s a great variety of new titles heading to top streaming services this week, from popular kids shows to college basketball and everything in between.

Have patience, NCAA basketball fans. The 2024 Men’s Basketball tournament has to wait until next week, and while that probably seems like an eternity for fans of teams heading to the big dance, it’s at least worth noting that the months-long wait for the tournament to start again is almost over!

The best news is that The Streamable will, as usual, have a list of new TV and movie streaming premieres ready to go for basketball fans, as well as audiences who don’t care about sports to get you through the week. Don’t bite your fingernails off or work yourself into a frenzy waiting for March Madness, just distract yourself with the new titles heading to a streaming service near you this week!

The two big original releases on Netflix this month are Spaceman and 3 Body Problem. In Spaceman, Adam Sandler plays an astronaut alone and far from home who desperately wants to fix things with his wife. When he discovers an enormous alien spider in the bowels of his ship, a conversation between the two gets underway, and Sandler has a chance to make some big changes. To be clear: this is not a comedy!

Meanwhile, new sci-fi series 3 Body Problem hails from Game of Thrones co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. Along with True Blood writer Alexander Woo, they’ve spun a tale that is set to blow your mind this March. Your mileage may vary, but it certainly looks interesting! And hey, we all love the show’s star, Benedict Wong.

Here’s everything else coming to Netflix this month. Note that Netflix marks its international offerings...

Netflix’s Griselda spent a second week as the top streaming title in the United States, according to Nielsen. It was one of three shows to snag more than a billion minutes of watch time for the week of Jan. 29-Feb. 4.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith also had a solid start for Amazon’s Prime Video, coming in just below the billion-minute mark. HBO’s True Detective also joined the rankings as it reached the midpoint of its fourth season.

Griselda, starring Sofia Vergara as the notorious drug lord, grabbed 1.73 billion minutes of viewing for the week, up about 9 percent from the previous seven days. The other two billion-minute shows were Young Sheldon (1.31 billion minutes on Netflix and Max) and Bluey (1.15 billion on Disney+).

Mr. and Mrs. Smith, starring Donald Glover and Maya Erskine, rang up 964 million minutes of watch time over three days after its Feb. 2 premiere (the full season...

For the first time since the show became exclusive to Peacock, The Office has made the weekly streaming rankings.

The long-running comedy series racked up 602 million minutes of viewing time for the week of Jan. 22-28, good enough for ninth place among library series. It’s the first appearance for The Office — which was a regular entrant in the early days of the Nielsen rankings — since it left Netflix for Peacock at the beginning of 2021.

At the top of the rankings for the week is Griselda, Netflix’s drama about the infamous drug queenpin starring Sofia Vergara. The series had 1.59 billion minutes of watch time over its first four days of release (it premiered Jan. 25). Reacher (741 million minutes) hung on in second place among original series a week after its second season finale on Prime Video, beating out Netflix’s docuseries American Nightmare (676 million).

Kids’ favorite Bluey led the acquired...

The week of Jan. 15-21 was a big one for streaming.

Seven titles — three original series, three acquired shows and one movie — each drew more than 1 billion minutes of viewing for the week, the most that have ever hit that mark in the four-year history of Nielsen’s streaming charts. The previous high was six, which has happened four times (including two weeks earlier).

Kids’ favorite Bluey was the overall No. 1, with just over 1.5 billion minutes on Disney+. Reacher (1.23 billion) reclaimed the top spot among original shows from the prior week‘s leader, Fool Me Once, which fell by more than 50 percent to 1.06 billion minutes of watch time. Netflix’s heist movie Lift grew by 19 percent week-to-week, scoring 1.04 billion minutes.

Young Sheldon (1.16 billion minutes), Netflix’s docuseries American Nightmare (1.12 billion) and Grey’s Anatomy (1.09 billion) also hit the billion-minute mark.

Former NBC series This Is Us was the latest recipient of...

Netflix’s The Brothers Sun had a solid opening on Nielsen’s streaming charts, but the show took a sizable leap forward in its second week of release.

The series, starring Michelle Yeoh, Sam Song Li and Justin Chien, grew by 38 percent over its debut week to record 960 million minutes of viewing for Jan. 8-14. That was good for third place among original series, behind Fool Me Once (2.4 billion minutes of viewing) — which was also the No. 1 overall title for the second straight week — and Reacher (1.06 billion), which recorded its fifth straight week over the billion-minute mark.

Disney+ and Hulu also saw a good start for Echo, its first binge-released Marvel series and the first Marvel show in the Disney+ era to receive a TV-ma rating. The five-episode show drew 731 million minutes of viewing for the week. That’s above recent premieres for shows like Loki and Secret Invasion, but...

The runaway success of Suits on Netflix in 2023 gave the show the biggest year ever in the short history of streaming viewing measurement. It also headlined a banner year for library series (aka shows that ended their run years ago) across a number of platforms: The top 10 overall titles in Nielsen’s year-end rankings are all acquired shows, the first time that’s happened in the four years streaming rankings have been publicly available.

Viewers spent a lot more time on streaming platforms last year than the year before — streaming use rose by 21 percent, according to Nielsen — and licensed shows are responsible for a lot of that increased time. The top 10 original streaming series last year combined drove 133.6 billion minutes of viewing, accounting for about two-thirds of 2022’s top 10 original shows (198.3 billion minutes). Another way to look at the steep decline in originals viewing: Even discounting the blockbuster run of...

In a rare collab with another preschool brand, Sesame Workshop’s “Sesame Street” and Moonbug’s “Blippi” are getting together for a series of videos in which Elmo and his pals interact with Blippi and his friends. The videos kick off on Saturday with the premiere of “Blippi and Meekah’s Birthday Surprise for Elmo.”

That’s the first of three videos that have been produced for social and online, with the possibility of more along the way. Elmo, Big Bird, Abby, Blippi, Meekah, Herb the Dinosaur and more will be seen in the collection of episodes and music videos when they premiere simultaneously on the “Blippi” and “Sesame Street” YouTube channels. Further videos will launch in June and September.

Both shows feature collaborations with celebrities and other figures, but it’s rare for two completely separate preschool entities to get together and work on a project like this. But...

Top 10 Most-Watched Suits Of 2023: Suits, The Big Bang Theory, Friends & More! (Photo Credit – IMDb)

There were a lot of streaming options in 2023. But one of the biggest blessings was the resurgence of Meghan Markle, Gabriel Macht, and Patrick J Adams starrer Suits. Thanks to Netflix’s aggressive marketing strategy, the legal drama series that ended in 2019 is back in the news. Not only that, but it is 2023’s most-watched show, surpassing The Big Bang Theory, Friends, and others. Scroll below for all the details!

Many factors led to the popularity of Suits growing all over again in 2023. It is undeniable that the characters are kickass, the dialogues are witty, and the plots are highly engaging. There is also a huge curiosity around Meghan Markle, who left her acting career, married Prince Harry, and is now the Duchess of Sussex. Netflix dropped the series in June, and the response was phenomenal.

Americans streamed 21 million years of video in 2023, according to Nielsen, and a hell of a lot of that was Australian series “Bluey.” Whoops, we mean a heck of a lot — it’s a kids show, after all.

The Disney+ import was the second most-streamed program of 2023, according to new Nielsen data, behind only “Suits.” Ah, biscuits.

“Suits,” which originally aired on USA Network from 2011-2019, was an absolute streaming juggernaut in 2023. It topped Nielsen’s streaming charts for 12 straight weeks, snapping an old “Ozark” record. And all it took was one Netflix licensing deal — and a ton of prominent placement by its algorithm. It would have been trifficult for any show to compete with that.

But consider the “Bluey” achievement. It and “Suits” offered roughly the same number of episodes (145 vs. 141) in 2023, but the two programs have wildly different runtimes. “Suits” is an hourlong drama (or 44 minutes without commercials); “Bluey...

‘Suits’ was the top acquired streaming program of the year, with more than 57 billion minutes streamed on Netflix and Peacock.

A lot happened in the streaming world in 2023. A shift in priorities took hold across the industry, as streaming providers realized they must figure out how to become profitable — and fast — to rehabilitate their stock prices. All of that happened against the backdrop of strikes by Hollywood’s largest writer and actor unions, and both of those factors combined to aid the rise of a potent programming segment: acquired content. Licensed shows like “Suits” took audiences by storm in 2023, and data compiled by Nielsen about streaming viewership last year provides good insight into what watchers can expect from their favorite streamer in 2024.

“Suits” was the top acquired title in terms of time streamed during 2023, having been watched for 57.7 billion minutes. “Ted Lasso” was the most-watched streaming original of the year,...

In a report analyzing TV viewership in the U.S. throughout 2023, Nielsen found that “Suits” beat a record previously held by “The Office” for number of minutes watched in a single year.

The legal drama racked up 57.7 billion total minutes watched in 2023, putting it just ahead of the 57.1 billion minutes of viewership accumulated by “The Office” in 2020. When comparing total time watched, though, projects with more episodes and/or longer episodes stand at an obvious advantage. The entirety of “Suits” runs for about 83 hours, which would mean it had an easier time reaching that 57 billion-minute mark than “The Office” did with about 73 hours of content.

Still, both the old record and the new one speak to Netflix’s ubiquity in the streaming landscape. “The Office” aired its final episode on NBC in 2013 but continued to reach a huge audience until it was removed from Netflix at the start of 2021 and...

The final week of 2023 was another big one for Young Sheldon, as it claimed the top spot among acquired shows in Nielsen’s streaming rankings for a second straight week. Disney+ got more strong returns from Percy Jackson and the Olympians as well, ad Prime Video’s Reacher ascended to the top overall spot.

Young Sheldon scored 1.31 billion minutes of viewing time on Netflix and Max for the week of Dec. 25-31, topping second-place Bluey (1.11 billion) by about 200 million minutes. The Crown (1.04 billion minutes) also topped the billion-minute mark for Netflix.

Reacher scored 1.44 billion minutes for the week after Nielsen resolved an issue related to audio asset capture on Prime Video. Earlier figures put the show at 943 million minutes of viewing. The revised rankings also moved Sound of Freedom into the top 10 movies for the week.

As for Percy Jackson, the series grew to 700 million minutes of viewing on Disney...

The streaming gods have smiled on Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

The Disney+ series based on author Rick Riordan’s best-selling books opened to a good-sized audience in the week before Christmas. The first two episodes, which debuted the evening of Dec. 19, drew about 572 million minutes of watch time, according to Nielsen’s streaming ratings. With a combined run time of 80 minutes, that works out to about 7.15 million complete runs (or “views” as currently defined by much of the industry) of the two episodes in the United States.

Disney had earlier said that the first episode had earned 13.3 million views worldwide — equivalent to a little more than 505 million minutes — over its first six days. The Nielsen figures for the premiere put Percy Jackson ahead of Disney+’s last two Marvel premieres, Secret Invasion (461 million minutes) and season two of Loki (446 million), in total viewing time.

Prime Video’s Reacher moved up to the overall No.

Exclusive: Build-a-Bear’s stuffed animal characters have inspired development of animated series Kabu.

Build-a-Bear Entertainment, Foundation Media Partners and Montreal toon maker Laughing Dragon Studios are working up a 10-part show, aimed at 7-11s, and release an exclusive first look at the upcoming Kidscreen Summit.

Mike Mariano, writer and producer on network sitcoms such as Raising Hope and My Name is Earl, is writing alongside Drew Gormley (Family Guy), Claire Ross Dunn, Brian Clark (Glisten and the Merry Mission) and Monica Kelly (Cocomelon).

Build-a-Bear President and CEO Sharon Price John and Foundation Media CEO Patrick Hughes executive producing the series.

The show is billed as a “stylized, colorful new offering with a fun ensemble cast of a variety of ‘stuffed animal’ friends,” with the creative influenced by the popularity of kawaii styling and each episode utilizing “an entertaining, sometimes ‘wacky’ way of...

A third character from NCIS is confirmed to be a part of the prequel series.

Recently, it was revealed that the NCIS franchise would soon be launching a new spinoff series called NCIS: Origins. The new show dives into the past of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, played by Mark Harmon in the original series. Mike Franks, another character played by Muse Watson who was killed off in Season 8, will also be a big part of NCIS: Origins. Now, per TVLine, it's been revealed that the prequel will also feature a young incarnation of Special Agent Vera Strickland (Roma Maffia), a character who briefly appeared in a Season 11 episode where she was introduced as a former partner of Franks.

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