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The NBA roared back onto the airwaves Wednesday night giving ESPN its most-watched opening night in 11 years. With an average audience of 2.8M across the first two games of the season, ESPN saw 80% growth over the viewership for last year’s opening night (around 1.5M), according to Nielsen. It also…

Watch out, Suits. Grey’s Anatomy is coming for the Nielsen streaming crown. The USA Network legal drama easily scored another week atop the overall streaming list with 1.43B minutes viewed across Netflix and Peacock from September 25 to October 1. But, that’s down about 20% from its viewership the wee…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Patricia "Ms. Pat" Williams is commanding the court on BET. The network’s unscripted courtroom series Ms. Pat Settles It premiered on October 18 with two episodes, debuting as the No. 2 show on primetime television for Black viewers as well as Black women in the 18-49…

The Fall of the House of Usher has officially dethroned Beckham on Netflix’s English-language TV charts. Mike Flanagan’s latest horror series took No. 1 just in time for Halloween with 7.9M views from October 16 to 22. That’s up nearly 2M from its debut week, which could signal growing interest in…

EXCLUSIVE: Dancing With The Stars sashayed its way to a self-proclaimed ratings win on Disney100 Night. The October 17 episode saw the remaining 11 couples celebrate the Mouse House’s 100th anniversary with performances to popular Disney songs. After three days of cross-platform viewing, the…

CBS takes the crown for Week 7 of the NFL regular season, with a little help from the Kansas City Chiefs. The NFL on CBS late national window hosted the team’s defeat of the Los Angeles Chargers in a majority of markets, averaging 24.38M viewers. Not only was it the most-watched NFL game this week…

Fox is the big winner for Week 8 of College Football. The network’s broadcast of Saturday’s Ohio State vs. Penn State matchup drew 9.96M viewers, which is Fox’s seventh most-watched regular season College Football game in history. It’s also now the third most-watched game of the season, as well as…

Just like that, Suits is back on top. The legal drama reclaimed its status as No. 1 on the Nielsen streaming charts for the week of September 18 to 24, after being bumped to second place last week by Netflix’s Virgin River. Suits, which has now spent 13 weeks overall at the top of the charts racked…

Nice try, CW. Season 3 of FBoy Island debuted on Monday, and another trio of women are setting out to find the Nice Guy in a sea of “manipulative douche-baggery,” as host Nikki Glaser so eloquently put it. But, audiences don’t appear to be taking note. The reality format, which was scooped up by…

The Fall of the House of Usher snuck into second place on Netflix’s English-language TV charts during its debut week. After debuting on October 12, the series tallied 6M views in just a few days on the service. With eight episodes available, it’s possible Mike Flanagan’s latest project could make its…

Washington scored a nail-biting victory over Oregon on Saturday and, with it, claimed the most-watched college football game of the week. With more than 7M viewers on ABC, the matchup is now the 11th this season to surpass the 7M milestone. That’s more than all of last season, when only 10 games had…

EXCLUSIVE: The expansion of the Basketball Wives franchise looks to be a slam dunk for VH1. Basketball Wives: Los Angeles returned for Season 11 on October 9, followed by the premiere of Basketball Wives: Orlando. After three days of viewing, the episodes hit just over a million viewers, which is…