‘Thunder Force’ Debut Leads Nielsen Streaming Rankings; ‘Them’ Start Scares Up Top 10 Finish

Time travelers from a war-torn future, the fate of the world in the balance, and soldiers recruited into a secret military campaign. Of course, Chris Pratt is going to lead something like that.

NEW YORK -- The Nielsen company's latest rankings of popular television and streaming shows have one thing in common — “NCIS” at the top.The CBS drama starring Mark Harmon as a Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agent has been on the air since 2003 and defines unhip.

Chris Noth, John Corbett and David Eigenberg are all signed on to reprise their roles in the “Sex and the City” reboot, “And Just Like That.”A senior production source confirmed to DailyMail.com that “viewers will definitely see Big, Aidan and Steve” in the HBO Max series.Back in February, Noth and Eigenberg had not yet signed onto the reboot and fans were distraught about what the absences of Mr. Big, Aidan Shaw and Steve Brady would mean to the storyline.

“Stowaway,” a Netflix sci-fi and drama movie starring Toni Collette, took Nielsen’s top spot for all films on streaming during the week of April 19, toppling the Melissa McCarthy comedy “Thunder Force” that had held the No. 1 slot for several weeks.“Stowaway” was viewed for 359 million minutes during the week of April 19-25 after debuting on Netflix on April 22, according to the latest streaming figures from Nielsen.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefDisney Plus made the greatest progress among premium streaming platforms in Southeast Asia in the first quarter of the year, according to new research.AMPD Research, affiliated with Media Partners Asia, said that the video streaming market leader remains YouTube with a 68% share, ahead of TikTok with 21% in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

Discovery chief David Zaslav, whose sizable corner of the media business is getting a lot bigger, said he had previously looked at the idea of creating a “global HBO,” but all the best series were taken.

David Marks, an early member of The Beach Boys, has filed a class action lawsuit against UMG Recordings in which he accuses the company of shorting its artists millions of dollars from international streaming revenue.According to the lawsuit, filed in California federal court on Thursday, Marks says that UMG is “contractually required to pay artists a portion of the international revenue it receives from the exploitation of Plaintiff and Class Members’ artistic works from digital

The Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier took the top spot in Nielsen’s streaming rankings for the week of April 12-18, the week the Marvel stand-alone series debuted the fifth of its six-episode Season 1. The No. 1 finish was the first for Disney+ on the typically Netflix-dominated charts since Disney/Pixar’s Soul pulled off the feat back in December.

Little Mix made their first red carpet appearance in 2021 after both Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Perrie Edwards announced they were expecting. Both singers kept their pregnancies hidden during their promo tour in recent months but shared their happy news a week apart.

Like pretty much every film that was originally due in theaters last year, A24‘s “The Green Knight” has had a long time to wait and remain patient. Directed by the eclectic filmmaker David Lowery (“A Ghost Story,” “The Old Man & the Gun”), his latest is an epic fantasy adventure based on a lesser-known Arthurian legend.

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Mónica Marie Zorrilla In a rare week where no single program exceeded the 1 billion minute threshold, the Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer-led film “Thunder Force” opened with thunderous viewership on Netflix. The movie towered over all other programs on subscription-based streaming platforms in Nielsen’s Weekly Top 10 list, with 0.95 million viewing minutes for the week of April 5-11.

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