This week, Paramount had record ratings for the Super Bowl, then things went south, fast.

Nielsen Ratings

Show Notes

Super Bowl 2024 Was the Most-Watched Telecast of All Time, Reaching 123.7 Million Viewers

Paramount+ problems highlight how unserious the idea of a streaming-only Super Bowl is

Paramount Global to lay off 800 employees after record Super Bowl ad revenue and ratings | CNN Business

Paramount+ to Remove Some International Originals (Exclusive)

Paramount+ Culls Raft Of International Drama Originals Including 'The Burning Girls', 'One Night', 'The Killing Kind' & 'The Serial Killer's Wife'

Comcast, Paramount Global Held Early Talks About a Peacock-Paramount+ Combination

Paramount Global Stock Slides After Warren Buffett Chops Stake

Apollo Distancing Orbit From National Amusements Buyout As The Pursuit Of Paramount Global Continues – The Dish

Jon Stewart’s ‘The Daily Show’ Return Ratings Big For Comedy Central

Jon Stewart Says Apple TV+ Canceled His Show Because 'They Didn't Want Me to Say Things That Might Get Me in Trouble'

Amazon Prime Video’s New Ads-Based Subscription Has A Surprise Catch

Amazon is Raising The Price of Its MGM+ Streaming Service | Cord Cutters News

Amazon Prime Video Ad Tier Sparks Class Action Lawsuit From Subscribers

Warner Bros. Discovery Beats Investor Suit Over Inflated Subscriber Figures

'American Rust' Season 2 Moves to Amazon Prime Video From Freevee, Sets Premiere Date

Roku Hits Major Milestones, Surpassing 80 Million Active Accounts and More than 100 Billion Streaming Hours in 2023

Roku’s stock sinks after earnings, but analyst sees ‘conservatism’ in outlook - MarketWatch

Roku’s stock falls 23%, and one bear now sees challenges brewing ‘on all flanks’ - MarketWatch

Walmart reportedly acquiring Vizio TVs for $2 billion to fight Amazon Fire TV and Roku | Tom's Guide

Peacock to Stream Adaptation of 'Three-Body Problem' Ahead of Rival Netflix Version

‘Silk: Spider Society' Writers Room Scrapped by Amazon

‘Invasion’ Renewed for Season 3 at Apple TV+ – The Hollywood Reporter

Goosebumps Renewed, Gets New Cast for Season 2 at Disney+

Chris Estrada Comedy ‘This Fool’ Canceled at Hulu

'Survival of the Thickest' Renewed for Season 2 as Michelle Buteau Sets Second Netflix Comedy Special

‘The Traitors’ Renewed For Season 3 At Peacock

'Evil' to End With Season 4 at Paramount+

Recommendations

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning 

The Equalizer 3 

Bottoms 

The Three Body Problem 

Octopath Traveler II 

For All Mankind 

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of February 17th, 2024.

Operation Arctic Cure (Feb. 20)

Death in the Dorms, Season 2 (Feb. 22)

Rhythm + Flow Italy, Season 1 (Feb. 19)

Mike Epps: Ready to Sell Out (Feb. 20)

Risque Business: The Netherlands and Germany (Feb. 20)

Can I Tell You a Secret? (Feb. 21)

Avatar: The Last Airbender, season 1 (Feb. 22)

Formula 1: Drive to Survive, Season 6 (Feb. 23)

The Indrani Mukerjea Story: Buried Truth (Feb. 23)

Through My Window 3: Looking at You (Feb. 23)

Tyler Perry’s Mea Culpa (Feb. 23)

Wrong Side of the Tracks, Season 3 (Feb. 23)

Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Season 3 (Feb. 21)

Last Week Tonight, season 11 (Feb. 18)

Jellystone, Season 3 (Feb. 22)

The Family Stallone, Season 2 (Feb. 21)

An American in Austen (Feb. 18)

A Taste of Love (Feb. 20)

Giannis: The Marvelous Journey (Feb. 19)

Apartment404, Season 1 (Feb. 23)

Jenny Slate: Seasoned Professional (Feb. 23)

The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy, Season 1 (Feb. 23)

Constellation, Season 1 (Feb. 21)

This week, Disney CEO Bob Iger made a couple of announcements.

Nielsen Ratings

Show Notes

ESPN, Fox and Warner Team Up to Create Sports Streaming Platform / ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery to launch joint sports streaming platform this year (cnbc.com)

Disney+ Drops 1.3 Million Subscribers Amid Price Hike, Streaming Loss Shrinks by $300 Million

Taylor Swift Eras Tour Movie Gets Disney+ Release Date With Five New Songs

The Final Days of 'Coyote vs. Acme': Offers, Rejections and a Roadrunner Race Against Time | Exclusive

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred targeting 2025 for new streaming option that would include in-market games - CBSSports.com

‘Percy Jackson’ Series Renewed for Season 2 at Disney+

'Ratched' Canceled After One Season At Netflix; Sarah Paulson Confirms

Matthew Goode, Kelly Macdonald, Chloe Pirrie Join Cast of Scott Frank's Netflix 'Department Q' Adaptation

The Unkillable ‘Wynonna Earp’ Will Return for One Last Ride | Vanity Fair

Recommendations

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

AEW

WWE

Tetris

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of February 10th, 2024.

Love & WWE: Bianca and Montez (Feb. 2)

The Space Race (Feb. 13)

Life & Beth, season 2 (Feb. 16)

Kill Me If You Dare (Feb. 13)

Sunderland ’Til I Die, season 3 (Feb. 13)

Taylor Tomlinson: Have It All (Feb. 13)

Players (Feb. 14)

A Soweto Love Story (Feb. 14)

Good Morning, Verônica, season 3 (Feb. 14)

The Heartbreak Agency (Feb. 14)

Love Is Blind, season 6 (Feb. 14)

AlRawabi School for Girls, season 2 (Feb. 15)

House of Ninjas, season 1 (Feb. 15)

Little Nicholas: Life of a Scoundrel, limited docu-series (Feb. 15)

Ready, Set, Love, season 1 (Feb. 15)

The Vince Staples Show, season 1 (Feb. 15)

Comedy Chaos, season 1 (Feb. 16)

Einstein and the Bomb (Feb. 16)

Young Jedi Adventures (Feb. 14)

The Truth About Jim (Feb. 15)

Love & Jane (Feb. 11)

Caillou, Season 1 (Feb. 15)

Vigil, Season 2 (Feb. 15)

Oppenheimer (Feb. 16)

Five Blind Dates (Feb. 12)

This Is Me...Now: A Love Story (Feb. 16)

The New Look, season 1 (Feb. 14)

The Dynasty: The New England Patriots (Feb. 16)

This week, Paramount Mountain has got people talking, Apple TV+ takes HBO's prestige TV crown, and Netflix tells you how it's going to be.

Nielsen Ratings

Show Notes

Paramount Hopes the Super Bowl Can Power Up Its Streaming Business

USA Today Ad Meter

Free Streaming Pioneer Pluto TV Refreshes Logo And Preps Super Bowl Promo Spot – Deadline

Vince McMahon Is “Gone” and More Takeaways From Netflix's Press Day

Netflix’s $5 Billion Rumble Into WWE’s ‘Monday Night Raw’ May Shake up Live Sports (yahoo.com)

Netflix is Said to License ‘Sex and the City’ From HBO - The New York Times

Apple TV+ Is the New HBO | WIRED

Issa Rae talks 'American Fiction' reflecting Hollywood, taking steps to be 'independent'

Warner Bros. Discovery stock downgraded by Wells Fargo on 'risky earnings setup'

Comcast’s Sky Cutting 1,000 Jobs In Further Switch Towards Streaming – Deadline

Charter Communications Q4 Earnings Report, Subscriber Update 2023 – The Hollywood Reporter

Google has a surprise moneymaker: people are paying for YouTube, and it's driving $15 billion in subscriptions revenue | Fortune

No surprise here: YouTube is making a lot more cash thanks to Premium, loads of ads (androidauthority.com)

Hulu Password Sharing Crackdown to Begin This year – The Hollywood Reporter

Why Shari Redstone Is Ready to Surrender Her Media Empire - Bloomberg

Byron Allen Makes $14B Offer to Buy Paramount Global

Streaming unwrapped: Streaming viewership goes to the library in 2023 | Nielsen

Ted Lasso Was 2023’s Most-Watched Streaming Original In U.S. – Deadline

HBO to Develop Gillian Flynn Novel 'Dark Places' as Limited Series (EXCLUSIVE)

Apple TV+ announces season two for hit, high-octane thriller “Hijack,” starring and executive produced by Idris Elba

'Obliterated' Canceled by Netflix After One Season

Yellowstone, When Calls the Heart Vets Join Billy Bob Thornton in Taylor Sheridan's Landman Oil Rig Drama

Recommendations

Reacher

Role Play

Rick and Morty

Star Ocean The Second Story R

WWE Royal Rumble

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of February 3rd, 2024.

Suncoast (Feb. 9)

Luz: The Light of the Heart, Season 1 (Feb. 7)

Raël: The Last Prophet (Feb. 7)

One Day (Feb. 8)

Alpha Males, Season 2 (Feb. 9)

Ashes (Feb. 9)

A Killer Paradox, Season 1 (Feb. 9)

Lover. Stalker. Killer. (Feb. 9)

Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Season 2 (Feb. 3)

The Marvels (Feb. 7)

Curb Your Enthusiasm, season 12 (Feb. 4)

They Called Him Mostly Harmless (Feb. 8)

Tokyo Vice, season 2 (Feb. 8)

#Cybersleuths: The Idaho Murders (Feb. 6)

Halo, season 2 (Feb. 8)

Couple to Throuple, season 1 (Feb. 8)

The Silent Service: The Battle of Tokyo Bay, Season 1 (Feb. 9)

Upgraded (Feb. 9)

This week, Netflix kept busy.

Show Notes

Netflix (NFLX) Film Chief Scott Stuber Will Leave to Start New Company in March - Bloomberg

Scott Stuber Leaving Netflix Head Of Film Post – Deadline

Behind Netflix Film Chief's Exit — And What It Means for Streaming Movies

Netflix to stream WWE's Raw starting next year in its biggest jump into live entertainment

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Becomes Board Member of TKO Group (variety.com)

After ‘Suits’ Effect, Netflix Urges Studios To License It More Titles – Deadline

Netflix subscribers surge as revenue beats estimates

Netflix Stock Soars 14%—But Some Analysts Have Doubts

Netflix Earnings: Stock Soars Toward 2-Year High As Subscribers Surge

How Much More Netflix Can the World Absorb? | The New Yorker

Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on Monday

Amazon Prime Video's Move to Steamroll Into Ads Could Generate More Than $3 Billion This Year: 'A Disruptive Force'

Peacock Quarterly Loss Narrows to $825M As Streamer Hits 31M Subscribers

Comcast Q4 Beats Street: Peacock Hits 31 Million Subs, $1B In Revenue; Stock Up As Company Boosts Dividend

Comcast Takes Peacock Victory Lap As Execs Talk Epic Universe, Ad Market And Deal Speculation

Knives Out T-Street Rian Johnson Ram Bergman add Katie McNeill Producer – Deadline

Sofia Coppola: Apple Pulled Funding on Florence Pugh TV Series

‘Étoile’ Sets ‘Gilmore Girls’ Reunion As Yanic Truesdale Joins Series – Deadline

Amazon Drama To Star David Duchovny, Jack Whitehall, Carice Van Houten – Deadline

Hulu Lands Bon Jovi Docuseries From Gotham Chopra

Netflix Lands Sundance Title 'It's What's Inside'; $17M For Worldwide Rights Sets Fest High Bar

Netflix Lands Sundance Docu ‘Skywalkers: A Love Story’ – Deadline

Netflix To Adapt Harlan Coben’s ‘Missing You’ & ‘Run Away’ – Deadline

'Wolf Pack' Canceled After One Season at Paramount+

Recommendations

Octopath Traveler

Octopath Traveler II

Welcome to Wrexham

Death and Other Details

Plus One

Poker Face

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of January 27, 2024.

Feud: Capote vs. The Swans (Jan. 31)

Doctor Slump, Season 1 (Jan. 27)

The Greatest Night in Pop (Jan. 29)

Mighty Bheem’s Playtime, Season 1 (Jan. 29)

Jack Whitehall: Settle Down (Jan. 30)

NASCAR: Full Speed (Jan. 30)

Alexander: The Making of a God (Jan. 31)

Baby Bandito, Limited Series (Jan. 31)

Love Never Lies: Poland, Season 2 (Jan. 31)

Will (Jan. 31)

Let’s Talk about Chu, Season 1 (Feb. 2)

Orion and the Dark (Feb. 2)

Choir (Jan. 31)

Genius: MLK/X, limited series (Feb. 1)

Self (Feb. 2)

The Unbreakable Tatiana Suarez (Jan. 31)

Chasing Flavor with Carla Hall (Feb. 1)

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning (Jan. 25)

A Bloody Lucky Day, Season 1 (Feb. 1)

The Tiger’s Apprentice (Feb. 2)

WWE Royal Rumble (Jan. 27)

Bosco (Feb. 2)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith, season 1 (Feb. 2)

This week, we probably make fun of Peacock.

Nielsen Ratings

Show Notes

Chiefs-Dolphins wild-card game on Peacock sets U.S. record for most streamed live event ever

Sharp differences in Peacock's NFL playoff audience - Sports Media Watch

What Peacock's Record-Breaking NFL Streaming Ratings Don't Tell You

NFL Fans Feel Vindicated By Peacock's Wild Card Viewership Numbers - AthlonSports.com | Expert Predictions, Picks, and Previews

Amazon to Acquire Stake in Diamond Sports Under Bankruptcy Reorg, Prime Video to Become Primary Streaming Partner for RSNs

Amazon to help save bankrupt Diamond Sports with $100M deal: sources (nypost.com)

Amazon to invest in Diamond Sports as part of bankruptcy deal - ESPN

Bally Sports Wants to Terminate Its New Contracts With the NBA & NHL and Return To its Older Agreements, Putting OTA TV Deals In Jeopardy | Cord Cutters News

Reacher Boasts Big Audience On Nielsen Charts, Percy Jackson Debuts – Deadline

'Flight Attendant' Canceled After Two Seasons at Max

‘Rap Sh!t’ Canceled By Max After 2 Seasons – Deadline

'Schmigadoon' Canceled After Two Seasons at Apple TV+

Recommendations

Echo

True Detective

Poker Face

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of January 20, 2024.

Superhot: The Spicy World of Pepper People (Jan. 22)

Tell Me That You Love Me, Season 1 (Jan. 24)

Chrissy and Dave Dine Out, Season 1 (Jan. 25)

Captivating the King, season 1 (Jan. 20)

Not Quite Narwhal, season 2 (Jan. 22)

Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees (Jan. 23)

Love Deadline, Season 1 (Jan. 23)

Six Nations: Full Contact (Jan. 24)

Queer Eye: More Than a Makeover, Season 8 (Jan. 24)

The UnXplained with William Shatner, season 4 (Jan. 25)

Griselda, season 1 (Jan. 25)

Masters of the Universe: Revolution (Jan. 25)

Badland Hunters (Jan. 26)

The Last Repair Shop (Jan. 23)

A Real Bug’s Life (Jan. 24)

Rick and Morty, season 7 (Jan. 22)

Sexy Beast, season 1 (Jan. 25)

In The Know, season 1 (Jan. 25)

Kevin James: Irregardless (Jan. 23)

Expats, season 1 (Jan. 24)

The Underdoggs (Jan. 26)

Masters of the Air, limited series (Jan. 26)