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Nielsen Streaming Top 10
Netflix’s The Witcher held at the Number 1 slot in the Nielsen Streaming Top 10 for Originals for the week of December 20th to 26th and also improved its viewership. Last week that one bowed at Number 1 with its second season and pulled in an estimated 2.2 billion minutes viewed, and that jumped up this week to 2.7 billion minutes. That show has already been renewed for a third season and multiple spin-offs are also in the works. Disney+’s Hawkeye slipped one slot to Number 3 for the week of its finale, pulling in 938 million minutes of viewing. And apparently the Kingpin reveal in that episode prompted people to go back and re-watch Daredevil (which is still streaming on Netflix) as it jumped into the Top 10 at the Number 8 slot. Amazon’s The Wheel of Time held at the Number 4 slot with 638 million minutes of viewing, and Netflix’s Lost in Space dropped to Number 5 with 490 million minutes. Following are all the sci fi and fantasy TV shows on the streaming charts for the week (the number in parenthesis is the prior week rank):
Nieslen Streaming Rankings for the Week of Dec-20 to Dec-26
Streaming Originals
1 (1) The Witcher (Netflix) 2.7 Million Minutes
3 (2) Hawkeye (Disney+) 938 Million Minutes
4 (4) The Wheel of Time (Amazon) 638 Million Minutes
5 (3) Lost in Space (Netflix) 490 Billion Minutes
8 (n/a) Daredevil (Netflix) 195 Billion Minutes
Acquired Shows
6 (6) Supernatural (Netflix) 348 Million Minutes
Source: Nielsen SVOD Content Ratings (Amazon Prime, Disney+, Hulu, Netflix, and Apple TV+), Nielsen National TV Panel, U.S. Viewing Through Television
Sci Fi TV Development
Legendary’s Monsterverse will be making the jump to television with a live-action series which will feature Godzilla and the Titans which is currently in the works for Apple TV+. Deadline gives the following description for the project:
Following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco and the shocking new reality that monsters are real, the untitled series explores one family’s journey to uncover its buried secrets and a legacy linking them to the secret organization known as Monarch.
This is early in development and will probably not debut on the streaming service until late 2022 or early 2023. The Monsterverse movies include Godzilla (2014), Kong: Skull Island (2017), Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), and Godzilla vs. Kong (2021).
Sci Fi TV Schedule
In new schedule announcements, Netflix’s animated fantasy Disenchantment will be returning on February 9th with Part 4 and Amazon’s cyber-comedy Upload will return for its second season on March 11th. This coming week brings three premieres leading off with the return of Snowpiercer on TNT for its third season on Monday. Then on Wednesday, Syfy’s Resident Alien will be back with its second season followed by the premiere of new series Astrid & Lily Save the World. Also next week, The CW’s Legacies returns from its Winter Hiatus on Thursday. There are more sci fi TV shows on the way this Mid-Season and you can see the full schedule at this link.
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