Last Monday’s coverage of the final services for Queen Elizabeth II drew a large daytime audience — but nowhere near as spectacular as has been hyped. There were initial social media reports suggested that this was TV’s biggest show ever, with a worldwide audience of four billion. People, please. According to the British audience research
With all the attention on the real royal family, it is no wonder that The Crown has leapt back up into the Top-10 most watched Netflix shows in Canada. The series has seen a renewed popularity all over the world, ranking in the Top-10 in 87 different countries and territories. Cobra Kai‘s fifth season, however,
On Monday, nine days after her death on September 8, HRH Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral service aired live on TV networks across Canada. It is nearly 70 years and a far cry from the early days of television when, in 1953, the Queen’s coronation was paraded in the streets of London. It was filmed, swiftly
In terms of hours viewed all over the world on Netflix in the past 28 days, way out in front is the fourth season of Stranger Things. The series clocked 1,352,090,000 hours viewed in its first 28 days on the streaming platform. In Canada over the most recent one week period, the top draw was
As mentioned previously, Numeris will soon stop sharing their weekly Top-30 lists of most-watched broadcast shows in Canada. The good news is, with more and more Canadian viewers switching to streaming services, weekly rankings for other services have started to emerge — and they represent the week just ended, not rankings compiled and shared nine
Fire up the Tiki torch and pass the Doritos: Survivor remains the most-watched show in Canada for an eighth week in 2022. In it’s 42nd edition, the castaway series was No. 1 among all viewers in Canada, in total, Live+7 data, every week in May and three out of four weeks in April. Over a
When it comes to ratings and putting today’s television landscape in context, I always call on the Programming Insider himself, Marc Berman. The New York native has been a friend and colleague since he began attending the Television Critics Association’s semi-annual network press tours in 1999. Back then, Marc was reporting for Mediaweek; before that,
It takes about ten days to get final broadcast TV numbers. We won’t know until Tuesday, May 29, therefore, how many viewers watched the Toronto Maple Leafs get eliminated Saturday night by the Tampa Bay Lightning in their seven-game opening round series. What we can predict, however, is that the audience was somewhere between three