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Nielsen: Netflix’s ‘Lost in Space’ Maintains Weekly Streaming Dominance

The third season of the Netflix original series reboot “Lost in Space” maintained its hold atop Nielsen’s weekly chart of top-streamed content in U.S. homes. The title was the only program to top 1 billion minutes (streamed across 28 episodes) in a week that saw muted interest in streaming after the Thanksgiving weekend.

“We were kind of in that fallow period between the heights of the Thanksgiving weekend media consumption and when we go to the Christmas holidays,” Brian Fuhrer, SVP of content at Nielsen, said on the podcast.

Fuhrer said the week was undermined in part by a lack of new content injected into the streaming ecosystem. The Top 3 podium was completed by Disney+ original series “Hawkeye” and Amazon Prime Video’s “The Wheel of Time,” both of which maintained their 500+ million weeks after each added additional episodes.

Netflix’s “Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous” added a new season, which helped draw slightly older children than the streamer’s licensed “Cocomelon,” which is successfully targeting children, with 835 million minutes across 15 episodes.

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“[‘Jurassic World’] is new content that trying to be introduced and keep that momentum going among younger audiences,” Fuhrer said.

The week also saw 60% of the week’s top-streamed movies with a Christmas theme as the winter holidays approached.

“Disney actually bookended the movies chart with catalog titles Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” Fuhrer said.

Source: Nielsen Streaming Content Ratings (Amazon Prime, Disney+, Hulu, Netflix and Apple TV+), Nielsen National TV Panel, U.S. Viewing through Television.

Nielsen: Netflix’s ‘Lost in Space’ Season Three Tops Weekly Streaming Through Dec. 5

The third season debut of Netflix sci-fi reboot “Lost in Space” tracked 1.2 billion minutes across eight episodes through the week of Dec. 5, according to new data from Nielsen. The tally was 40% less than the 2.1 billion-minutes season two debut during Christmas in 2019 — across 10 episodes. It was also 25% less than the 1.6 billion minutes (10 episodes) for the season one debut in 2018.

“The show definitely did better in prior seasons, but there’s a couple reasons for that,” Brian Fuhrer, SVP of content at Nielsen, said on the videocast. “We’re not in the same place we were in 2018, certainly from the standpoint of streaming video.”

Fuhrer said the influx of streaming competition across Hollywood in just the past three years has made individual shows generating colossal minutes rare.

“There’s a lot more streaming going on,” he said. “A lot more content. A lot more competition and fragmentation.”

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Source: Nielsen Streaming Content Ratings (Amazon Prime, Disney+, Hulu, Netflix and Apple TV+), Nielsen National TV Panel, U.S. Viewing through Television.

Netflix Bowing Season Three of ‘Lost in Space’ Dec. 1

Netflix will premiere the third and final season of the remake of sci-fi series “Lost in Space” Dec. 1.

The season, which will consist of eight episodes, puts the Robinson family’s survival instincts to the ultimate test. After a year of being trapped on a mysterious planet with nearly 100 colonists, Judy, Penny, Will and the Robot lead a harrowing evacuation, but not before secrets are unearthed that will change their lives forever.  Meanwhile John and Maureen, with Don at their side, must battle overwhelming odds as they try to reunite with their kids.

The cast includes Toby Stephens, Molly Parker, Maxwell Jenkins, Mina Sundwall, Taylor Russell, Ignacio Serricchio and Parker Posey.

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First Season of Netflix’s ‘Lost in Space’ Coming to Disc June 4

The first season of the Netflix reboot of sci-fi series “Lost in Space” is coming to Blu-ray and DVD June 4 from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

The reimagined series finds the Robinson family among an expedition to colonize another planet when life on Earth is threatened. But when the mission is attacked by an alien entity, the families of Earth find themselves stranded on a hostile world working together to get back on course toward their destination.

The show stars Toby Stephens as John Robinson, Molly Parker as Maureen, Taylor Russell as Judy, Mina Sundwall as Penny, Max Jenkins as Will Robinson, Parker Posey as Dr. Smith, and Ignacio Serricchio as Don West.

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Lost in Space: The Complete First Season bonus materials include deleted scenes; a sizzle reel; featurettes “Bill and Max: Lost and Found in Space,” “Designing the Robot” and “Bill Mumy Visits the Jupiter 2”; and, exclusive to the Blu-ray, “No Place to Hide,” a colorized version of the unaired pilot episode from the 1965 series.

’13 Reasons Why’ Flying High Among Digital Originals, Parrot Analytics Says

With a 58% spike in demand, Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why” remained in the No. 1 spot on the digital originals chart for the week ended May 26, according to Parrot Analytics Demand Expressions data.

Season two of the teen drama – centered on the aftermath of a teenage girl’s suicide – debuted May 18, making this the first full week in which episodes are available.

The series’ number of Demand Expressions soared to nearly 68 million, more than any other TV show – digital original or regular broadcast – during the week.

In the week leading up to Memorial Day, there were few changes to the digital series demand chart. However, Netflix is releasing more than 80 new titles in June, and Parrot Analytics says it expects demand chart fluctuations in the weeks to come.

The popularity of season two of “13 Reasons Why,” like the popularity of season one, is fuelled by controversy.

The finale of season one, showing a teenage girl taking her own life, prompted schools to issue warnings to parents to monitor their children’s viewing.

For season two, Netflix aired a “cold open” before the first episode featuring cast members read the following disclaimer: “‘13 Reasons Why’ is a fictional series that tackles tough, real-world issues, taking a look at sexual assault, substance abuse, suicide, and more. By shedding a light on these difficult topics, we hope our show can help viewers start a conversation. But if you are struggling with these issues yourself, this series may not be right for you or you may want to watch it with a trusted adult. And if you ever feel you need someone to talk with, reach out to a parent, a friend, a school counselor, or an adult you trust, call a local helpline, or go to 13ReasonsWhy.info. Because the minute you start talking about it, it gets easier.”

Elsewhere in the top 5, demand for “Cobra Kai” slipped 15%, but the series – a sequel the 1984 movie “The Karate Kid” – remains at No. 2 on the digital originals chart.

Following Martin Kove’s appearance in the season one finale, the “Karate Kid” alum is joining the cast in season two.

Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and Netflix’s “Arrested Development” remain at No. 3 and No. 4, respectively, while “Orange is the New Black” shot up to No. 5 from No. 10, bumping “Lost in Space” out of the top 10.

“Orange is the New Black” experienced a nearly 32% uptick in demand, as Digital Spy revealed details about the upcoming sixth season of the women prison drama.

Looking at the bottom half of the top 10 digital originals chart, Netflix’s “The Crown” experienced a significant (54%) rise in demand during the week, lifting it to No. 9 from No. 28 the prior week.

The historical drama picked up a supporting actress award at the BAFTA television awards on May 13.

Rounding out the top 10, Netflix’s “Stranger Things” has reappeared in the top 10, at No. 10, after an absence of several weeks.

Media Play News has teamed with Parrot Analytics to provide readers with a weekly top 10 of the most popular digital original TV series in the United States. Parrot Analytics uses a proprietary metric called Demand Expressions, which measures global demand for TV content through a wide variety of data sources, including video streaming, social media activity, photo sharing, blogging, commenting on fan and critic rating platforms, and downloading and streaming via peer-to-peer protocols and file sharing sites.

 

‘Lost In Space’ Reboot Bows at No. 2 on Digital Original Series Chart

The Spanish limited series “Money Heist” (“La Casa De Papel”) remained in the No. 1 spot on the digital originals chart for the second consecutive week, with a nearly 20% spike in demand during the week ended April 21, according to Parrot Analytics Expressions data.

Last week the crime heist drama jumped to No. from No. 3 the prior week with a 21% gain in demand.

Netflix bought global distribution rights to the series earlier this year and re-edited the original run of nine episodes into 15 different untitled episodes, released as two seasons. Netflix released the second season on April 6 with a runtime of 40 to 50 minutes instead of the original 70 minutes per episode.

Debuting at No. 2 on the digital originals chart is another Netflix series, a reimaging of Irwin Allen’s classic 1960s TV series “Lost in Space” that premiered on the streaming subscription service on April 13.

Less than a week later,  executive producer Zack Estrin hinted at what the audience can expect if the series is renewed for a second season – despite the fact that Netflix’s big-budget remake of the science-fiction series has yet to get the green light for sophomore run. Netflix put the series into development in November 2015, with production on the first season beginning in January 2017, 15 months before its on-air bow.

The top half of the digital original series chart is occupied by titles that have a profoundly serialized element, albeit with shorter seasons than linear network offerings. Three of them are currently on hiatus.

Third-ranked “Stranger Things” has lost demand in the double digits for the second consecutive week.

Coming in at No. 4 was “On My Block,” a coming-of-age series that debuted on Netflix on March 16. The series suffered a slight 5.8% decline in demand from the prior week, when it was No. 2.

“On My Block” still had around 20% more demand than Marvel’s “Jessica Jones,” No. 8 on the digital original series chart – down from No. 4 the prior week, with a 17.1% drop in demand.

The other young adult-oriented series that was a massive hit in 2017 – 13 Reasons Why – does not yet have a release date for season 2; demand fell 12% from the prior week, resulting in a drop to No. 7 from No. 5.

Meanwhile, on the overall TV series chart, hour-long genre dramas underwent surprise casting changes that may have caused demand to increase, reflecting audiences following their favorite characters.

“Supernatural,” “The Walking Dead,” “The Flash” and “Grey’s Anatomy” all had dramatic story arcs as they wrap their respective finales.

“Grey’s Anatomy” has been renewed for a 15th season, making it ABC’s longest-running drama on a linear network.

Also, demand for “Saturday Night Live” underwent a resurgence after a string of “viral moments”; the variety sketch series is not scheduled to return with new episodes until May 5, so it will be interesting to see if demand can be sustained into the next month.

Media Play News has teamed with Parrot Analytics to provide readers with a weekly top 10 of the most popular digital original TV series in the United States. Parrot Analytics uses a proprietary metric called Demand Expressions, which measures global demand for TV content through a wide variety of data sources, including video streaming, social media activity, photo sharing, blogging, commenting on fan and critic rating platforms, and downloading and streaming via peer-to-peer protocols and file sharing sites.