Bored with being the Lord of Hell, the devil (a.k.a. Netflix’s “Lucifer”) relocates to Los Angeles, where he opens a nightclub and forms a connection with a homicide detective.
How quickly “boredom” can be erased with the arrival of a new season of episodes. After Netflix dropped eight new episodes of the fifth season, the series was the most-streamed show on living room televisions, generating 1.28 billion minutes to dominate Nielsen’s weekly Top 10 charts of most-streamed original, licensed TV shows and movies through May 30. That compared with 321 million minutes across 77 episodes in the previous-week period.
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“There was really a lot of pent-up demand for the show,” said Brian Fuhrer, SVP of product strategy.
Netflix original movie Army of the Dead generated 786 million minutes as the top-streamed movie. That was 14% lower than the 913 million minutes streamed the week before.
Among Netflix licensed shows, perennial charter “Grey’s Anatomy” tracked 633 million minutes across 374 episodes. That was almost 10% more than the 575 million minutes streamed last week across the identical number of episodes.
Fuhrer said 34% of the streaming audience for “Lucifer” represents the core streaming viewer: 18- to 34-year-olds.
“That’s really giving red meat to the hardcore streaming audience,” he said, adding that over half the streaming audience for original program runner-up “The Kominsky Method” is over the age of 65.
“That’s pretty extraordinary from a SVOD perspective,” Fuhrer said.
Original Movies:
Rank |
SVOD Provider |
Program Name |
Number |
Minutes Streamed (Millions) |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Netflix | Army of the Dead (2021) | 1 | 786 |
2 | Netflix | Home (2015) | 1 | 449 |
3 | Netflix | Blue Miracle (2021) | 1 | 338 |
4 | Netflix | The Mitchells vs. The Machines | 1 | 302 |
5 | Netflix | Dog Gone Trouble | 1 | 283 |
6 | Disney+ | Cruella | 1 | 280 |
7 | Disney+ | Moana | 1 | 196 |
8 | Netflix | The Woman in the Window | 1 | 162 |
9 | Disney+ | Raya and the Last Dragon | 1 | 162 |
10 | Netflix | Sabotage (2014) | 1 | 122 |
Licensed Shows:
Rank |
SVOD Provider |
Program Name |
Number of Episodes |
Minutes Streamed (Millions) |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Netflix | “Grey’s Anatomy” | 374 | 633 |
2 | Netflix | “Criminal Minds” | 310 | 616 |
3 | Netflix | “Start Up” | 31 | 547 |
4 | Netflix | “Cocomelon” | 9 | 543 |
5 | Netflix | “NCIS” | 353 | 525 |
6 | Netflix | “Heartland” | 177 | 354 |
7 | Netflix | “Schitt’s Creek” | 80 | 288 |
8 | Netflix | “Supernatural” | 328 | 270 |
9 | Netflix | “New Girl” | 146 | 227 |
10 | Amazon Prime Video | “SpongeBob SquarePants” | 161 | 217 |