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Nielsen: ‘Falcon & Winter Soldier’ Gives Disney+ First Overall Chart Topper Since ‘Soul’ on Christmas

It took five weeks, but “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” finally gave Disney+ its first overall No. 1 spot on Nielsen’s weekly Top 10 streaming chart across living room televisions for the week of April 12-18. The Marvel Universe-inspired series generated 855 million minutes streamed across five episodes — besting Netflix original movie Thunder Force, with 742 million minutes, and re-runs of “NCIS,” with 773 million minutes across 379 episodes.

Brian Fuhrer, SVP of product strategy at Nielsen, said “Falcon” won just one demo: 35- to 49-year-olds. Among viewers up to 11 years of age, “Cocomelon” ranked No. 1. Re-runs of “NCIS” topped 12-17 year-olds; and 18- to 34-year-olds coveted “Grey’s Anatomy.” Thunder Force was No. 1 among viewers up to age 64, while “Heartland” appealed to older viewers.

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“Just an illustration of how important it is to have a diversity of programs that appeal to different groups to drive usage and subscriptions,” Fuhrer said.

In a twist, Netflix added four episodes of season two of “The Circle” for viewing to season one. The streamer will add four episodes each week going forward. Netflix typically releases an entire season all at once upon launch.

“An interesting hybrid strategy … and we’ll see how that resonates with viewers,” Fuhrer said. “[Streamers] have to figure out ways to make their content last and also give consumers an opportunity to view it in this time of constricted creation,” he said.

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

 

Movies:

Rank

SVOD Provider

Program Name

Number

Minutes
Streamed (Millions)
1 Netflix Thunder Force 1 742
2 Netflix Why Did You Kill Me? 1 253
3 Netflix Synchronic 1 250
4 Disney+ Moana 1 166
5 Disney+ Raya and the Last Dragon 1 164
6 Netflix The Little Rascals 1 153
7 Netflix Saving Private Ryan 1 130
8 Disney+ Frozen 1 124
9 Netflix Concrete Cowboy 1 115
10 Netflix The Stand-In 1 114

Licensed Content:

Rank

SVOD Provider

Program Name

# of Episodes

Minutes (Millions)
1 Netflix “NCIS” 353 779
2 Netflix “Grey’s Anatomy” 369 629
3 Netflix “Cocomelon” 9 609
4 Netflix “Criminal Minds” 310 575
5 Netflix “Schitt’s Creek” 80 489
6 Netflix “Heartland” 167 430
7 Netflix “Nicky Ricky Dicky & Dawn” 83 326
8 Netflix “The Baker and the Beauty” 9 315
9 Netflix “Supernatural” 328 313
10 Netflix “New Girl” 146 290

Nielsen: Disney’s ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ Returns Atop Weekly SVOD Chart

The fourth episode of Marvel Comics Universe original series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” proved a winner for Disney+, generating 748 million minutes streamed across four episodes on family televisions for the week April 5-11. The episode generated 19.1% more minutes than the last time it sat atop Nielsen’s weekly chart of top streamed shows on the family television with 628 million minutes.

New Amazon Prime Video series “Them” was No. 2 with 439 million minutes across 10 episodes. The horror series about Black families stalked by creepy home invasions,marked Prime Video’s third original series to crack the Top 10 chart.

Netflix’s “The Serpent” moved up five spots to make the podium with 406 million minutes — 152% more minutes streamed than during the previous-week period.

Netflix’s new movie Thunder Force took the top spot among original movies, generating a whopping 950 million minutes to easily distance the streamer’s runner-up, What Lies Below, with 294 million minutes. Concrete Cowboy rounded out the Netflix podium with 270 million minutes — about 30% more minutes than the 194 million minutes streamed during the previous week period.

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

 

Original Movies:

Rank

SVOD Provider

Program Name

Number

Minutes
Streamed (Millions)
1 Netflix Thunder Force 1 950
2 Netflix What Lies Below (2020) 1 294
3 Netflix Concrete Cowboy 1 270
4 Netflix Saving Private Ryan 1 212
5 Netflix Sniper: Ghost Shooter 1 209
6 Disney+ Moana 1 172
7 Netflix Legally Blonde 1 165
8 Disney+ Raya and the Last Dragon 1 165
9 Netflix The Little Rascals 1 145
10 Netflix Friends with Benefits  1 142

Licensed Content:

Rank

SVOD Provider

Program Name

Number of Episodes

Minutes Streamed
(Millions)
1 Netflix “NCIS” 353 701
2 Netflix “Grey’s Anatomy” 369 627
3 Netflix “Criminal Minds” 310 567
4 Netflix “Cocomelon” 7 475
5 Netflix “Schitt’s Creek” 80 430
6 Netflix “Heartland” 166 405
7 Netflix “Gilmore Girls” 153 315
8 Netflix “Supernatural” 328 292
9 Netflix “New Girl” 146 266
10 Netflix “Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir” 76 250

 

Nielsen: Disney’s ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ Proves ‘Irregular’ Atop Weekly Streaming Chart

The new Disney+/Marvel Universe series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” again proved to be short-lived competition to Netflix original programming.

A week after finishing atop Nielsen’s weekly Top 10 chart of most-streamed original content on the television, “Falcon” finished behind upstart Netflix series “The Irregulars,” which tracked 643 million minutes across eight episodes from March 29 to April 4, compared with 628 million minutes for “Falcon” after three episodes.

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The latter’s minutes were good enough to best “The Irregulars” with 428 million minutes — suggesting more viewers increased their binge-viewing of the series rather than stream the new “Falcon” episode. Disney+ does not release an entire season of an original program with the premiere episode.

Indeed, “Falcon” was beat in its first week by Netflix’s female buddy series, “Ginny & Georgia,” the latter with 540 million minutes to 495 million minutes for the Disney show.

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

 

Movies:

Rank

SVOD Provider

Program Name

Number

Minutes Streamed
(Millions)
1 Netflix Bad Trip (2021) 1 344
2 Netflix Secret Magic Control Agency  1 268
3 Netflix Hop 1 217
4 Disney+ Moana 1 193
5 Netflix Concrete Cowboy 1 190
6 Netflix Octonauts & the Ring of Fire  1 176
7 Disney+ Raya and the Last Dragon 1 175
8 Netflix Seaspiracy 1 136
9 Netflix Yes Day 1 118
10 Amazon Coming 2 America 1 109

Licensed Programming:

Rank SVOD Provider Program Name Number of Episodes Minutes Streamed (Millions)
1 Netflix “Grey’s Anatomy” 368 580
2 Netflix “NCIS” 353 535
3 Netflix “Cocomelon” 6 515
4 Netflix “Criminal Minds” 308 489
5 Netflix “Heartland” 165 413
6 Netflix “Supernatural” 328 377
7 Netflix “Schitt’s Creek” 80 338
8 Netflix Gilmore Girls” 153 283
9 Netflix “New Girl” 146 280
10 Netflix “Big Time Rush” 62 248

‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ Remains No. 1 on Parrot’s Digital Originals Demand Chart

The Disney+ original Marvel Cinematic Universe series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” spent a second week at No. 1 on Parrot Analytics’ digital originals U.S. chart the week ended April 24. The week of the show’s finale saw a 0.1% drop in demand expressions, the proprietary metric Parrot uses to gauge a show’s popularity, giving it 43.3 times the demand of an average series. It was No. 6 on Parrot’s list of all TV shows.

The top seven digital originals remained the same and in the same positions as the previous week.

Netflix’s perennially popular “Stranger Things” was No. 2, reaching 42 times average demand after a 3.7% rise in demand expressions. It was No. 7 on Parrot’s list of all TV shows. The slight rise in expressions may be due to star Finn Wolfhard suggesting season four might not be released until 2022.

The Disney+ series “WandaVision,” which ended in early March, was No. 3, registering another 0.6% drop in demand expressions, giving it 39.2 times average demand. It was No. 8 on the list of overall TV shows.

Disney+ had a third show in the top five digital originals with the live-action “Star Wars” series “The Mandalorian,” which held steady at No. 4, garnering 35.1 times the demand of the average show after a 4.2% dip in demand expressions.

Rounding out the top five for the fifth week was Netflix’s “Cobra Kai” with 28.9 times average demand and a 4.7% drop in demand expressions.

No. 6 was the Disney+ animated series “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” while No. 7 was Netflix’s “The Crown.”

Moving up three spots to No. 8 was Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which had a 13.7% rise in demand expressions as audiences anticipate the April 28 premiere of season four.

Meanwhile, climbing from No. 18 the previous week to No. 9 was the Apple TV+ sports comedy “Ted Lasso, ” which rose 30.3% in demand expressions thanks to a trailer for the show’s second season that bows in July.

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A “digital original” is Parrot’s term for a multi-episode series in which the most recent season was first made available on a streaming platform such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu or Disney+.

The No. 1 overall TV series in terms of online demand was “SpongeBob SquarePants,” with 64.8 times average demand.

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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, based on the firm’s proprietary metric called Demand Expressions, which measures demand for TV content in a given market 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. Results are expressed as a comparison with the average demand for a TV show of any kind in the market.

Nielsen: Disney’s ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ Bumps Netflix From Atop Weekly TV Streaming Chart

The new Disney+ Marvel series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” succeeded where “WandaVision” failed: removing Netflix from the No. 1 spot on Nielsen’s weekly chart of the Top 10 programs and movies streaming on household televisions.

The first and second episodes of the series starring Anthony Mackie and Sabastian Stan generated 628 million minutes from March 22-28, besting Netflix’s “The Irregulars” with 424 million minutes across eight episodes. Disney+, unlike binge-themed Netflix, bows original content episodes on a weekly basis.

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Netflix’s perennial chart topper, “Ginny & Georgia,” finished No. 3 with 390 million minutes across 10 episodes.

Netflix dominated Top 10 licensed programming with “NCIS” displacing long-running leader, “Criminal Minds” with 725 million minutes to 656 million minutes, respectively. The streamer’s original movie, Bad Trip, led all feature-length movies with 308 million minutes.

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

 

Licensed Programming:

Rank

SVOD Provider

Program Name

Number of Episodes

Minutes Streamed
(Millions)
1 Netflix “NCIS” 353 725
2 Netflix “Criminal Minds” 307 656
3 Netflix “Grey’s Anatomy” 368 610
4 Netflix “Cocomelon” 6 599
5 Netflix “Heartland” 158 453
6 Netflix “Schitt’s Creek” 80 402
7 Netflix “Gilmore Girls” 153 352
8 Netflix “Supernatural” 328 343
9 Netflix “Good Girls” 37 282
10 Netflix “Henry Danger” 65 281

Movies:

Rank

SVOD Provider

Program Name

Number

Minutes Streamed
(Millions)
1 Netflix Bad Trip (2021) 1 308
2 Netflix Yes Day 1 264
3 Netflix Deadly Illusions (2021) 1 240
4 Netflix Operation Varsity Blues  1 227
5 Disney+ Moana 1 207
6 Netflix Secret Magic Control Agency  1 201
7 Disney+ Raya and the Last Dragon 1 194
8 Netflix Savages 1 162
9 Amazon Coming 2 America 1 154
10 Netflix Jiu Jitsu (2020) 1 139

‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ Finally Hits No. 1 on Parrot’s Digital Originals Demand Chart

The Disney+ original Marvel Cinematic Universe series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” finally reached No. 1 on Parrot Analytics’ digital originals U.S. chart the week ended April 17. The week of the release of its fifth episode, the show had a modest 0.6% gain in demand expressions, the proprietary metric Parrot uses to gauge a show’s popularity, giving it 43.3 times the demand of an average series. It was No. 7 on Parrot’s list of all TV shows. The fifth episode had a noteworthy cameo, and the show should maintain some buzz heading into its sixth and final episode.

Netflix’s perennially popular “Stranger Things” dropped a spot to No. 2, reaching 40.3 times average demand after a 1.9% drop in demand expressions. It was No. 8 on Parrot’s list of all TV shows.

“WandaVision,” the first Disney+ series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, slipped to No. 3 after another 2.5% drop in demand expressions, giving it 39.3 times average demand. It was No. 9 on the list of overall TV shows.

Disney+ had a third show in the top five digital originals with the live-action “Star Wars” series “The Mandalorian,” which held steady at No. 4, garnering 36.5 times the demand of the average show after a 1.4% dip in demand expressions.

Rounding out the top five for the fourth week was Netflix’s “Cobra Kai” with 30.2 times average demand and a 3.7% rise in demand expressions.

The death of Prince Philip gave some attention to Netflix’s “The Crown,” which moved up three spots to No. 7 with a 13.9% rise in demand expressions.

HBO Max’s animated “Harley Quinn” series climbed back into the top 10, up four spots to No. 10 thanks to a 6.3% rise in demand expressions.

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A “digital original” is Parrot’s term for a multi-episode series in which the most recent season was first made available on a streaming platform such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu or Disney+.

The No. 1 overall TV series in terms of online demand was “SpongeBob SquarePants,” with 64.4 times average demand.

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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, based on the firm’s proprietary metric called Demand Expressions, which measures demand for TV content in a given market 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. Results are expressed as a comparison with the average demand for a TV show of any kind in the market.

‘WandaVision,’ ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ Give Marvel Top Two Spots on Parrot’s Digital Originals Demand List

“WandaVision,” the first Disney+ series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, remained No. 1 for a sixth consecutive week on Parrot Analytics’ digital originals U.S. chart the week ended April 3. It had 40.8 times the demand of an average series after a 3.9% drop in demand expressions, the proprietary metric Parrot uses to gauge a show’s popularity. It was No. 7 on Parrot’s list of all TV shows.

Meanwhile, the second Disney+ Marvel original series, “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” jumped two spots to No. 2 on the digital originals chart after a 13.9% spike in demand expressions to give it 39.1 times average demand. It was No. 10 on the list of overall TV show demand.

Disney+ had a third show in the top five digital originals with the live-action “Star Wars” series “The Mandalorian,” though it dropped a spot from the week before, to No. 4, garnering 36.5 times the demand of the average show after another 0.35% dip in demand expressions.

Netflix’s perennially popular “Stranger Things” slipped to No. 3 on the digital originals chart with 37.5 times average demand and a 5% drop in demand expressions.

Rounding out the top five for the second week was Netflix’s “Cobra Kai” with 31.4 times average demand and a 0.2% drop in demand expressions.

With the animated “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” at No. 6, Disney+ had four shows in the top 10 digital originals, while Netflix had five, including “Lucifer” at No. 7, “The Witcher” at No. 9 and “The Crown” at No. 10.

The top 10 original not from one of those two streamers was HBO Max’s “Titans” at No. 8.

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A “digital original” is Parrot’s term for a multi-episode series in which the most recent season was first made available on a streaming platform such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu or Disney+.

The No. 1 overall TV series in terms of online demand was “SpongeBob SquarePants,” with 66.3 times average demand.

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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, based on the firm’s proprietary metric called Demand Expressions, which measures demand for TV content in a given market 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. Results are expressed as a comparison with the average demand for a TV show of any kind in the market.

‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ Jumps Up Parrot’s Digital Originals Chart, but ‘WandaVision’ Leads for Fifth Week

“WandaVision,” the first Disney+ series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, remained No. 1 for a fifth consecutive week on Parrot Analytics’ digital originals U.S. chart the week ended March 27. It had 42.3 times the demand of an average series after a 5.8% drop in demand expressions, the proprietary metric Parrot uses to gauge a show’s popularity. It was No. 8 on Parrot’s list of all TV shows.

Meanwhile, the second Disney+ Marvel original series, “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” jumped up to No. 4 on the digital originals chart after an 80% spike in demand expressions to give it 34.2 times average demand. The show, an extension of the “Captain America” side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, bowed its first of six weekly episodes March 19, just two weeks following the conclusion of “WandaVision.” It had been No. 13 the previous week.

Disney+ had a third show in the top five digital originals with the live-action “Star Wars” series “The Mandalorian,” though it dropped a spot from the week before, to No. 3, garnering 36.6 times the demand of the average show after another 1.3% dip in demand expressions.

Netflix’s perennially popular “Stranger Things” moved up to No. 2 on the digital originals chart with 39.3 times average demand and a 9.5% rise in demand expressions. It was No. 9 on the list of overall TV show demand.

Netflix’s “Cobra Kai” dropped a spot to No. 5 on the digital originals chart with 31.3 times average demand and a 2% drop in demand expressions.

With the animated “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” at No. 6, Disney+ had four shows in the top 10 digital originals, while Netflix had five, including “The Crown” at No. 8, “Lucifer” at No. 9, and “The Witcher” at No. 10.

The top 10 original not from one of those two streamers was HBO Max’s “Titans” at No. 7.

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A “digital original” is Parrot’s term for a multi-episode series in which the most recent season was first made available on a streaming platform such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu or Disney+.

The No. 1 overall TV series in terms of online demand was “SpongeBob SquarePants,” with 66.2 times average demand.

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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, based on the firm’s proprietary metric called Demand Expressions, which measures demand for TV content in a given market 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. Results are expressed as a comparison with the average demand for a TV show of any kind in the market.

Home Release Dates Uncertain After Movie, Original Series Postponements and Production Halts

Movie release postponements as well as production suspensions for films and original SVOD series due to the mounting coronavirus health crisis will likely lead to significant shifts in the home release calendar for the rest of the year.

With movies typically becoming available for disc or digital delivery three months or so after their theatrical openings, delayed home releases include several big Hollywood movies, including the Walt Disney Co.’s live-action Mulan; Universal Pictures’ latest “Fast and Furious” film, F9; and the Paramount Pictures horror sequel A Quiet Place: Part II.

Meanwhile, such original digital series as the Netflix comedy “Grace and Frankie” and Marvel’s “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” on Disney+, will likely debut later than expected due to production halts.

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On the film front, Mulan’s scheduled March 27 theatrical opening has been called off, with no new date set — despite a star-studded premiere March 9 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood that was attended by some 3,400 guests and a smaller London premiere March 12.

F9’s theatrical debut has been postponed by nearly a year, from May 2020 to April 2, 2021. According to a Twitter posting, “While we know there is disappointment in having to wait a little while longer, this movie is made with the safety of everyone as our foremost consideration.”

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A Quiet Place: Part II, slated to open March 20, has also been taken off the schedule, with no new date set.

The first big movie to be postponed was the latest James Bond film, No Time to Die, with Daniel Craig in his final turn as the fabled spy. On March 3 MGM, Eon and Universal Pictures announced that the planned April theatrical debut was off and the film, instead would open in the United Kingdom on Nov. 12 and in the United States on Nov. 25.

The companies said the decision came “after careful consideration and thorough evaluation of the global theatrical marketplace.”

Disney also pushed back the theatrical openings of two other movies, the horror film Antlers, original slated for April 17, and Marvel’s New Mutants, which was supposed to hit the big screen on April 3. No new dates have been set. New Mutants has already been delayed for years due to production issues and uncertainties associated with Disney’s buyout of Fox.

In addition to A Quiet Place: Part II, Paramount postponed the theatrical debut of The Lovebirds from April 3 to an unspecified date. The theatrical release of another Paramount film, Mission: Impossible VII, is up in the air after filming in Venice, Italy, was stopped in February due to the coronavirus outbreak there.

Also pulled from its originally scheduled theatrical release date is Sony Pictures’ Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, which was supposed to open March 27 in Europe and in the United States on April 3. The film is now slated to open on Aug. 7.

Most recently, Variety on March 13 reported that Disney “for a short time” has halted production and pre-production on The Last Duel, The Little Mermaid, Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, Home Alone, Nightmare Alley, Peter Pan & Wendy and Shrunk.

“While there have been no confirmed cases of COVID-19 on our productions, after considering the current environment and the best interests of our cast and crew, we have made the decision to pause production on some of our live-action films for a short time,” according to a studio statement, the Variety story said. “We will continue to assess the situation and restart as soon as feasible.”

The day before, March 12, various media outlets reported that Skydance Television, producer of “Grace and Frankie,” halted production of the seventh and final season of the comedy, which stars Jane Fonda, 82, and Lily Tomlin, 80.

Two days earlier, USA Today reported that Disney shut down production of “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” in Prague.