K.J. Yossman SkyShowtime, the joint streaming venture between Comcast and ViacomCBS, has received full regulatory approval.It will launch in Europe later this year.
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The Witcher, which returned to Netflix for a second season on December 17, dominated Nielsen’s weekly U.S. streaming chart with almost 2.2 billion minutes of viewing.
The latest chart covers the period of December 13 to 19. A distant second place was CoComelon on Netflix, with 840 million viewing minutes.
Hawkeye on Disney+ added another episode as part of its one-at-a-time release pattern, but its five episodes managed a solid-but-unspectacular 580 million minutes. That was good enough for fourth place given the consolidation of viewing in the No. 1 spot.
Other notables in the top 10 included two very different original films on Netflix. The Unforgivable, a dramatic thriller starring Sandra Bullock, drew 566 million viewing minutes, finishing sixth, and animated feature Back to the Outback collected 485 million for ninth.
Created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, The Witcher is based on a fantasy book franchise of the same name by Andrzej Sapkowski. Henry Cavill, Freya Allan and Anya Chalotra head the cast. Each of the show’s first two seasons has had eight episodes.
Nielsen’s streaming numbers account for only viewing via a TV set and only on Disney+, Hulu, Netflix, Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime Video. They are reported after a nearly month-long delay due to current challenges in data-gathering in streaming.
Below is the week’s full top 10. Unless otherwise noted, all shows are on Netflix.
The Witcher – 16 episodes, 2.2 billionCoComelon – 15 eps., 840M min.Criminal Minds – 317 eps., 631M min.Hawkeye (Disney+) – 5 eps., 580M min.Lost In Space – 28 eps., 569M min.The Unforgivable – film, 566M min.Seinfeld – 166 eps., 511M min.NCIS – 354 eps., 494M min.Back To The Outback – film, 485M min.The Wheel of Time (Prime Video) – 7 eps, 467M
K.J. Yossman SkyShowtime, the joint streaming venture between Comcast and ViacomCBS, has received full regulatory approval.It will launch in Europe later this year.
The Broadway production of Tracy Letts’ The Minutes is delaying its performance dates by two weeks this spring. The play, starring Schitt’s Creek actor Noah Reid, Letts, Blair Brown, Jessie Mueller and others, will now begin previews at Studio 54 on April 2, with opening night set for April 17.
Satellite ratio and podcasting streamer SiriusXM returned to profit in the fourth quarter, posting net income of 8 cents a share, compared with a loss of 16 cents in the year-earlier period.
Love Island couple Millie Court and Liam Reardon returned home from a romantic trip to Wales to find a house-warming present from Millie’s dad.The Love Islanders shared a video of them excitedly unwrapping the gift which had been placed in a closed-off fireplace and wrapped in silver paper. Millie’s dad was filming them and could be heard to say: “Congratulations on your first home together.” Millie captioned the video: "So my dad popped around to give us our housewarming gift, this is the unwrapping." As the paper was removed they revealed a bespoke neon sign which reads ‘Carpe Diem’ in blue neon light plus a love heart in red neon.
Removing Boris Johnson from Downing Street is, like “fixing the drains”, “an unpleasant but necessary job” Dominic Cummings has said.
Hunter Schafer and Dominic Fike are adding more fuel to the rumors that they’re a real-life couple after they were spotted on another dinner date!
Lia Maiuri, who handled publicity for NBC’s daytime drama Days Of Our Lives in her previous position at NBCU, has been named Director of Communications for the show’s producer, Corday.
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Naman Ramachandran “Drive My Car” filmmaker Hamaguchi Ryusuke, director Karim Ainouz (Berlin-winner “Central Airport THF”) and actor Connie Nielsen (“Wonder Woman”) will join president M. Night Shyamalan on the international jury of the Berlin Film Festival.
The 72nd Berlin International Film Festival has confirmed its various juries, including who will be joining M. Night Shyamalan to award the International Competition prizes.
Peter Andre has teased a return to music and suggested a collaboration with former Love Island star Wes Nelson could be in the works.The Mysterious Girl singer posted a series of photos alongside Wes, who found fame on Love Island in 2018 but later launched a music career, to his Instagram Stories on Monday night. In the first photo, Peter, 48, is seen posing alongside Wes, 23, and producer Ayo Beatz from what looks to be a music studio.The dad-of-four captioned the image: “What a day…” In other photos, he also tagged director Fred Nwaka and recording engineer Aidan Cunningham at the Rebel Records recording studio, making it seem like a creative project is definitely in the works.
Robbie Neilson has backed Hearts' decision to cut Celtic's ticket allocation to just 1000 for tomorrow night's Premiership crunch at Tynecastle.
Some fans got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
coronavirus pandemic, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival returns this spring with headliners The Who, Stevie Nicks, Foo Fighters, Lionel Richie, Erykah Badu, Ludacris, Nelly and Willie Nelson.Festival organizers announced the lineup for the festival Thursday. It's scheduled over two weekends, Friday, April 29, through Sunday, May 1 and Thursday, May 5 through Sunday, May 8.Also performing at the festival are Jimmy Buffett, Luke Combs, The Black Crowes, Norah Jones, Ziggy Marley: Songs of Bob Marley and The Avett Brothers.
health delays — Elton John is resuming his “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” tour.His retirement tour began in 2018, but due to a series of postponements, he was forced into a performance hiatus.But now, the 74-year-old British singer is back on the road and played at the Crescent City in New Orleans on Wednesday night.“Wow, we haven’t played a show since the 6th of March 2020. This is a new experience for us, I’ve never had this amount of time off in my life … playing music, well at least since I was 17 years of age,” the “Tiny Dancer” singer said to the New Orleans audience, who hung onto their coveted tickets for 745 days.“I can’t thank you enough for being so patient,” he continued.
Production for Creed III has officially begun!
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Did you guys gather your friends and family to celebrate Star Trek Day yesterday? No? Well, you missed out. Okay, maybe not.