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UFC’s spectacle on the White House lawn averaged 8.2M viewers across the U.S. and Latin America, Paramount said Thursday. Per the company, that’s the best “exclusive” live event audience ever for Paramount+, which likely means it excludes streaming audiences for major events in several other…

Love Island USA is once again the show of the summer. Season 8 has come out of the gate with 2.3B minutes viewed through its first two weeks, up 50% from Season 7, per preliminary Nielsen data. This makes it the No. 1 series on streaming for the weeks of June 1 and June 8. That number is…

For many of its established series, Netflix commissions writers rooms for another cycle ahead of the upcoming season’s debut to get a jump on production in the event of renewal. The streamer is taking a more cautious approach with Sweet Magnolias, which launched its fifth season on June 11. It does…

The New York Knicks' historic NBA championship run drove some of the biggest television audiences the league Finals has seen in decades. Saturday's Game 5 averaged 24.5M viewers across ABC and ESPN, per Nielsen Big Data + Panel, marking the most-watched NBA Finals game since 1998, when Michael…

EXCLUSIVE: Below Deck Down Under still has the wind in its sail following the Season 4 finale. The fourth season, which concluded June 1, is now averaging 3.1 million total cross-platform viewers after 35 days, according to a combination of Nielsen data and internal metrics from NBCUniversal. As…

UPDATED: Pulisic, Balogun & Co.’s heroics at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium made World Cup television history. The U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team’s opening match at the 2026 FIFA World Cup became Team USA’s most watched English-language and Spanish-language World Cup telecast ever. The contest…

UPDATED 6/15: The opening match of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup drew 7.18M viewers across Fox, Fox One and Tubi, final Nielsen Big Data + Panel numbers reveal. All the records below stand, plus the match was also up 150% from the 2022 opening match (Qatar vs. Ecuador). ORIGINAL 6/12: The 2026…

As expected, the Summer House Season 10 reunion has made some waves. The first hour of the three-part reunion, which premiered on May 26, brought in 3.1M multi-platform viewers in seven days, marking not only a franchise record but a yearslong audience high for Bravo, NBCUniversal revealed ahead…

Audiences are still intrigued by Michael Jackson’s high-profile criminal trial, even more than two decades later. Netflix’s latest docuseries on the topic, Michael Jackson: The Verdict, topped the streamer’s English TV list last week with 17.8M views from June 1 to 7. It was the most-watched…

Love Island USA Season 8 is off to a fiery start on Peacock. Since launching on June 2, the first few episodes have already tallied 824M minutes viewed, up 74% from Season 7. That makes it Peacock’s most-streamed original season ever through the first three days, per internal data from…

EXCLUSIVE: Diane Sawyer’s deep dive into the life and work of fitness guru Richard Simmons has piqued audience interest. The ABC News special, which aired on May 12, has tallied 10.2M viewers to-date across ABC, Disney+ and Hulu, per a combination of Nielsen Big Data + Panel and Disney’s…

Euphoria seems to have held fairly steady across its third and final season, delivering 8.7M viewers in three days for the series finale, HBO says. That’s a slight uptick from the premiere, which amassed 8.5M viewers in three days, but the network didn’t specify if this is the best audience of…