Netflix cancelled the show that has been the most-watched among streaming viewing for two weeks in a row. Jupiter’s Legacy repeated at the Number 1 slot in the Nielsen Streaming Top 10 for originals for the week of May 10th to 16th, increasing its estimated minutes viewed from its first week tally of 696 million to 1.02 billion. The Netflix Red Queen must be pretty comfortable atop her throne when she can just shout “Off with their heads!” to top-performing shows like this. At the Number 2 slot for the week was Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale which had 584 million minutes of viewing. Dropping to Number 6 for the week was Netflix’s Shadow and Bone which had 294 million minutes of viewing. Entering the charts at Number 9 was Netflix’s Castlevania with 205 million minutes of viewing for its premiere week. Netflix previously announced that show’s current fourth season as its last. Love Death + Robots also premiered that week on Netflix but did not make it into the Nielsen Streaming Top 10. That show has been renewed for a third season, though. Dropping out from last week was Disney+’s Star Wars: The Bad Batch and Netflix’s Lucifer. In the Top 10 acquired shows, Supernatural slipped to Number 10 with 239 million minutes of viewing. You can see the full rankings at this link.
In non-Nielsen related streaming news, the premiere of Loki on Disney+ delivered the strongest viewership so far for an original on that service. The Samba TV measuring service indicated that the show drew 890K U.S. households for its premiered on Wednesday. That topped both WandaVision and The Falcon and The Winter Soldier which had 655K and 759K households for their premieres respectively. And unlike those two shows which were designed as mini-series, Loki has the potential to continue on for more seasons.
The Nielsen Streaming Ratings rank the shows/movies on Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, and Hulu based on the number of minutes watched during the week by U.S. viewers on television sets (mobile devices are not included at this point). The numbers are extrapolated based on the Nielsen sampling of families who have meters monitoring their viewing habits. Also note, shows with more episodes available will tend to have a higher number of minutes watched.
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