Nielsen Streaming Top 10: ‘Young Sheldon’ Hits Nearly 1 Billion Minutes Viewed After Netflix Premiere as ‘Leo’ and ‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ Lead Titles

Netflix has set an April 4 premiere date and unveiled the first trailer for psychological thriller series Ripley, starring Andrew Scott as Patricia Highsmith’s title character. The series adaptation, from The Night Of’s Steve Zaillian, was orginally set at Showtime but moved to the streamer ahead of Showtime’s integration into Paramount+.

After Midnight finally made its debut January 16 in the timeslot formerly held by James Corden.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were nowhere to be seen this year at the Emmy Award Ceremony after their Netflix documentary was snubbed last year.

Fans of Kate Garraway and Holly Willoughby have slammed Katie Hopkins, and called for her to be banned from social media, following some ill-tempered video rants. The former Apprentice star took aim at Kate Garraway after she lost her husband, Derek Draper, and has now turned on Holly following her return to Dancing on Ice, reports the Mirror.

Jaden Thompson Perhaps spiders are not a nuisance after all — at least that’s the case for Adam Sandler in “Spaceman,” in which he receives emotional support from an oversized arachnid in outer space. Netflix has released the trailer for Sandler’s upcoming sci-fi film, set to premiere at Berlin Film Festival next month. It will then release in select theaters on Feb.

The Weeknd‘s massive hit single ‘Blinding Lights’ has become the first song in history to reach four billion streams on Spotify.Spotify’s most-streamed song of all time, as revealed in early 2023, appeared on Abel Tesfaye’s ‘After Hours’ album. It was released at the end of 2019, and has spent over 100 weeks in the charts.In that time, it set a new record for most weeks in the Top Five of the chart (43), Top 10 (57 weeks) and Top 40 (86 weeks), and replaced Chubby Checker’s 1960 hit ‘The Twist’ as the biggest US Billboard Hot 100 single of all time.In a statement about crossing the four billion mark, The Weeknd said: “I’ll never stop being humbled by anything I create making its way to millions of people let alone billions!“I’m so thankful this song makes people feel a way that they keep going back to listen.”Last year, The Weeknd reacted to the news that Taylor Swift is now the only other music artist with 100million Spotify listeners.Swift, who became the first female artist to reach the milestone, still currently sits behind The Weeknd, who has the most monthly listeners on the streaming service with more than 110million.Last summer, The Weeknd broke another record for highest attendance at Wembley Stadium.

Young Sheldon is coming to an end this season but the franchise will live on at CBS. The network is closing in on a straight-to-series order to a multi-camera spinoff of Young Sheldon from the series’ executive producers Steve Holland, Steven Molaro and Chuck Lorre and studio Warner Bros Television, sources tell Deadline. The new series will center on the characters of Georgie Cooper and his fiancée Mandy McAllister, played on the show by Montana Jordan and Emily Osment, respectively.

Toni Collette is soaking up the sun in Australia with a beach day.

Prime Video‘s Reacher is once again attracting a hefty audience for Amazon.

Benny Safdie got his start in Hollywood as a director alongside his brother Josh, but now they’ve gone their separate ways.

Variety, Benny – who helmed several films with his brother Josh, the duo being dubbed the Safdie Brothers – confirmed that the brothers aren’t working together, and that their split has been “amicable”.“It’s a natural progression of what we each want to explore. I will direct on my own, and I will explore things that I want to explore.

One week after taking over the Nielsen streaming throne, Young Sheldon was ousted by Leave the World Behind.

Selome Hailu “Leave the World Behind” debuted at the top of Nielsen’s weekly streaming rankings after premiering on Netflix on Dec. 8.

After 23 weeks, Suits was finally ousted from the Nielsen Top 10.

Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly said they nearly left ITV "bankrupt" after a couple won £1 million on the new series of their gameshow.The TV presenting duo host Ant and Dec's Limitless Win, which sees pairs of contestants answer questions in a bid to win as much money as possible, with no limit on how much cash they can take home. One lucky couple scooped up a whopping £1 million - the biggest win in the show's history. Ant and Dec joked that there were "a lot of accountants around the studio looking even greyer than normal" after the contestants competed in the new series and secured the seven-figure sum.

Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire took over the Netflix throne in its debut week.

The cast of Barbie experienced life in plastic while filming 2023′s hottest blockbuster. The very pink extravaganza grossed over $1 billion in less than a month and is now the top grossing movie of 2023 in North America!

The November streaming slump finally ended during the week of Thanksgiving, as audiences in the U.S. had some extra time to catch up on film and TV.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Johan Renck’s Netflix sci-fi drama “Spaceman,” starring Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan and Paul Dano, and German filmmaker Julia von Heinz’s “Treasure” – formerly titled “Iron Box” – with Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry, are among high-profile titles set to launch from the upcoming Berlin Film Festival. The 74th Berlinale – which will unveil its competition lineup on Jan.

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