World Series viewership soared for Game 5 as the Los Angeles Dodgers claimed victory over the New York Yankees.

As the Dodgers and Yankees went head-to-head for the fifth time this World Series, Game 5 brought in 18.6 million viewers across Fox, Fox Deportes and Fox streaming services, according to Nielsen. Viewership peaked at 21.27 million viewers on Fox from 11:15-11:30 p.m. ET.

Wednesday night’s audience on Fox ranks as the biggest audience a Game 5 has seen since 2017, when Game 5 between the Houston Astros and the Dodgers scored 18.96 million viewers. The Dodgers-Yankees matchup also saw a 58% uptick in viewership compared to last year’s 2023 World Series Game 5, which brought in a viewership of 11.48 million.

Overall, the 2024 World Series averaged 15.81 million viewers, the best average audience since 2017.

Game 4, which could have clinched a World Series sweep for the Dodgers before the Yankees came back in an unexpected win, brought in 16.7 million viewers across Fox, Fox Deportes and Fox streaming services. That number accounts for 16.28 million from Fox alone, and the game peaked at 18.22 million viewers from 10:15-10:30 p.m. ET.

Like Game 5, Game 4 broke several World Series viewership records as it became the most-watched Game 4 on Fox since 2016, when the game between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians scored 16.71 million viewers. Viewership for Game 4 was also up 92% when compared to the 2023 World Series Game 4, which scored 8.48 million viewers.

Game 3 scored 13.64 million viewers across Fox, Fox Deportes and Fox Sports streaming platforms, with 13.21 million viewers coming from Fox alone. Viewership for Game 3 was up 63% from last year, and marked the most-watched Game 3 since 2018, when the Boston Red Sox and the Dodgers’ Game 3 matchup brought in 13.3 million viewers.

Similarly, Game 2 ranked as the most-watched World Series Game 2 on Fox since 2018 as the Dodgers-Yankees second matchup brought in 13.44 million viewers. Game 2 also saw a 65% uptick from last year’s Game 2, which scored 8.15 million viewers.

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Update: Viewership for the World Series keeps on growing, with Game 4 bringing in 16.7 million viewers across Fox, Fox Deportes and Fox streaming services.

On Fox alone, the Dodgers-Yankees Game 4 matchup scored 16.28 million viewers and peaked at 18.22 million viewers from 10:15-10:30 p.m. ET, according to Nielsen.

Tuesday’s game ranks as the most-watched World Series Game 4 on Fox since 2016, when the game between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians scored 16.71 million viewers, and saw a 92% uptick when compared to the 2023 World Series Game 4, which scored only 8.481 million viewers.

Overall, the 2024 World Series has averaged a viewership of 14.98 million across its four games, marking the strongest start of the series since 2017.

Original story: Game 3 of this year’s World Series scored a 63% bigger audience than last year.

As the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees went head-to-head for the third game of the series, Game 3 brought in 13.64 million viewers across Fox, Fox Deportes and Fox Sports streaming platforms, according to Nielsen figures. On Fox alone, the game averaged 13.21 million viewers, and peaked with 14.25 million viewers on Fox from 9-9:15 p.m. ET.

That’s up 63% from last year’s Game 3 between the Texas Rangers and the Arizona Diamondbacks, which scored a viewership of 8.13 million. In fact, Monday’s Dodgers-Yankees matchup marked the most-watched Game 3 since 2018, when the Boston Red Sox and the Dodgers brought in 13.3 million viewers.

In addition to ranking as Monday’s most-watched TV program, Game 3 also became Fox’s most-watched Monday primetime telecast since 2013’s World Series Game 5, which saw the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals bring in 14.45 million viewers.

When combining the first three games between the Dodgers and the Yankees, the 2024 World Series has averaged 14.42 million viewers across all networks, marking the sporting event’s best viewership since 2017.

On Saturday, Game 2 brought in 13.44 million viewers, and peaked with 16.35 million viewers on Fox from 11 p.m. ET to its conclusion. Viewership for the Dodgers-Yankees Game 2 saw a 65% uptick from last year’s Game 2, which scored 8.15 million viewers, and also ranked as the most-watched World Series Game 2 on Fox since 2018, when the Dodgers-Red Sox game scored 13.51 million viewers.

Game 4 of the 2024 World Series goes down Tuesday night.

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Viewership for CBS’ fall premieres soared when accounting for streaming and delayed viewing, with the “Matlock” series premiere reaching nearly 16 million viewers.

After first debuting on Sept. 22, the “Matlock” series premiere reached 15.8 million viewers across linear and streaming platforms within its first 30 days, according to VideoAmp and CBS Research estimates and internal streaming data (CBS and Nielsen are currently in the midst of an ongoing contract dispute).

When accounting for the two encore airings of “Matlock’s” series premiere, the first episode of the Kathy Bates-led show scored 22.8 million multiplatform viewers.

As CBS debuted “Young Sheldon” spinoff series “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” during its October premiere week, the series premiere of the Montana Jordan and Emily Osment-led series scored 10.6 million multiplatform viewers in its first seven days, up from the debut of the final season of “Young Sheldon” in February.

Likewise, the Season 2 premiere of “Tracker” reached 15.7 million multiplatform viewers in its first week, up 25% from its regular time period debut for Season 1. “Elsbeth” also improved over its Season 1 viewership, with the Season 2 premiere bringing in 10 million multiplatform viewers in its first seven days, up 19% from its Season 1 debut on Feb. 29.

On streaming platforms, which include Paramount+, CBS.com and the CBS App, “Matlock” scored CBS’ second-largest average minute audience (AMA) across seven days, behind only “Tracker” Season 1. Seven-day streaming viewership for “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” was up 72% from last season’s premiere of “Young Sheldon,” while “NCIS: Origins” was up 53% compared to the last season premiere of “NCIS: Hawai’i.”

Returning series “Tracker” and “Elsbeth” also posted streaming viewership gains, with “Tracker” up 3% from its first regularly scheduled episode while “Elsbeth” was up 24% from its series premiere.

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Ratings for “Dancing With the Stars” continued to climb with last week’s Disney night, which saw a 24% increase from last year’s episode, TheWrap can reveal exclusively.

As the remaining couples performed Disney-themed duets for the ballroom dancing competition series, Disney night brought in a 0.72 rating in the key broadcast demo among adults 18-49, according to Nielsen-live-plus-same-day viewers. That’s up 24% from last year’s Disney night, which scored a rating of 0.58.

Ratings for this year’s Disney night were also up 7% when compared to the previous week, which saw a 0.67 rating, marking the third week of growth in a row.

Disney night also scored a record-breaking number of fan votes with over 16 million. Total viewership also saw a solid uptick for Disney night, which brought in 4.85 million viewers, up from last week’s total viewership of 4.4 million for the dedication week episode.

Disney night boosted “Dancing With the Stars” to become the No. 1 most-watched entertainment program of the night in the 18-49 demo from the 8 to 10 p.m. time period, scoring a 85% advantage over CBS, which averaged a 0.39 rating, and a 95% increase over NBC, which scored. a 0.37 rating during the timeslot. “Dancing With the Stars” outpaced Fox, which averaged a 0.18 rating, by 300%.

With Disney night’s victory, ABC averaged a 0.58 rating, winning the night for the third week in a row among the broadcast networks. “Dancing With the Stars” has averaged a 0.69 rating to date this season, standing as the No. 1 entertainment program on broadcast in the 18-49 demo.

In addition to the key broadcast demo, Disney night also ranked as the No. 1 most-watched program of the night among kids 2-11, and hit a season high with a 0.33 rating.

Frontrunner and “Pretty Little Liars” star Chandler Kinney arrived back atop the leaderboard for Disney night as she appeared as her “Zombies 2” werewolf character, Willa. Other notable performances included Olympian rugby player Ilona Maher as Luisa Madrigal from “Encanto,” former “Bachelorette” Jenn Tran as Ariel, Joey Graziadei as Tarzan and Stephen Nedoroscik as Hercules.

Dancing with the Stars airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC and Disney+. New episodes are available to stream on ABC.com and Hulu the next day.

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“Agatha All Along” continues to enchant solid viewership on Disney+.

The Patti Lupone-centric Episode 7 scored 4.2 million views globally on Disney+ after 1 day of streaming, according to internal viewing data from Disney. That’s up 35% from the premiere episode, which debuted on Sept. 18. Disney defines a view as total stream time divided by runtime.

Given that the premiere episode logged 9.3 million views globally on Disney+ within the first seven days of its release, Episode 7 posted impressive viewership, and could outpace the series premiere within a week of viewing.

“Agatha All Along” Episode 7 posted comparable viewership to the debut of “Star Wars” series “The Acolyte,” which logged 4.8 million views on Disney+ within its first day on the streamer.

According to Nielsen’s streaming charts, as “Agatha All Along” debuted its first two episodes on Sept. 18, the series logged 426 million viewing minutes between Sept. 16-22, ranking as the No. 8 most-watched streaming original series of the week.

With the release of Episode 3 the next week, “Agatha All Along” scored 365 million minutes viewed across its first three episodes, coming in at No. 10 on the streaming originals list during the week of Sept. 23-29.

Showrunner Jac Schaeffer directed Episode 7 after directing Episodes 1 and 2, and told TheWrap helming the episode felt “fated.”

“This one is very, very close to my heart,” Schaeffer told TheWrap. “For scheduling reasons, it became necessary for me to take over 7. It actually was an opportunity that presented itself, and it felt fated. It felt fated in kind of the most beautiful way. I feel so lucky and honored that I got to direct this episode.”

“Agatha All Along” is now streaming on Disney+, with new episodes dropping on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. PT. 

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“Young Sheldon” spinoff series “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” is holding its own when it comes to ratings, with its second episode holding onto 98% of its premiere audience.

The second episode of the Montana Jordan and Emily Osment-led sitcom averaged 6.40 million total viewers, retaining almost all of its premiere viewership, which scored 6.56 million viewers, according to Nielsen live-plus-same-day ratings provided to WBTV (CBS and Nielsen are currently in the midst of a contract dispute).

While the premiere episode of “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” outpaced Episode 2 when it came to total viewership, Episode 2 made strides from its first installment as it scored a 0.53 rating in the key broadcast demo among adults 18–49, up 13% from the premiere episode’s rating of 0.47.

In the 25-54 demo, Episode 2 scored a rating of 0.9, soaring 8% from the 0.83 rating brought in by last week’s series premiere. “Georgie & Mandy” was the most-watched program in both the 18-49 and 25-54 demo on Thursday, improving from last week after the spinoff series tied with “Ghosts” in the 18-49 demo.

After two episodes — the premiere on Oct. 17 and Episode 2 on Oct. 24 — “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” currently ranks as the No. 1 most-watched comedy this season among total viewers.

Serving as a sequel series to “Young Sheldon” and additional spinoff series for “The Big Bang Theory,” “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” follows Georgie (Jordan) and Mandy (Osment) as they raise their young family in Texas while navigating the challenges of adulthood, parenting and marriage, per the official logline.

Rachel Bay Jones and Will Sasso, who were introduced as Mandy’s parents in “Young Sheldon,” also star as Georgie and Mandy move in and the show introduces new characters in Dougie Baldwin and Jessie Prez.

Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Steve Holland serve as creators and executive producers for the Warner Bros. TV-produced series.

“Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. PST on CBS and streams on Paramount+.

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“Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” continued to gain traction as it passed over 2 billion viewing minutes in the second week of its Netflix debut.

The Cooper Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez-led installment logged 2.396 billion viewing minutes during the week of Sept. 23-29, ranking atop the Nielsen overall streaming list for the second week in a row. As “Monsters” added 700 million viewing minutes compared to the previous week, it became the first streaming title to surpass 2 billion viewing minutes since “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” in July.

Following “Monsters” in second place was “Inside Out 2,” which made its Disney+ debut on Sept. 25 after premiering in theaters in July. The “Inside Out” sequel logged 1.82 billion viewing minutes, ranking as the week’s No. 2 overall streaming program and the No. 1 most-watched streaming movie by a longshot.

Viewership for the “Inside Out 2” debut also outpaced the premiere of Netflix romcom series “Nobody Wants This,” which logged 1.04 billion viewing minutes in the first several days of its debut, ranking as the No. 3 most-watched overall streaming program and No. 2 most-watched original series, behind only “Monsters.”

“Mr. McMahon” took the No. 4 spot on the overall list with 908 million viewing minutes on Netflix, while “Bob’s Burgers” came in fifth place with 844 million viewing minutes on Hulu and “Bluey” came in sixth place with 813 million viewing minutes on Disney+. Prime Video’s “Rings of Power” came in the No. 7 spot on the overall streaming list with 733 million minutes viewed.

While “The Perfect Couple” and “Only Murders in the Building” did not make it on the overall streaming list, they had a solid showing on the streaming originals list, with “The Perfect Couple” scoring 556 million viewing minutes in the No. 5 spot on the list and “Only Murders in the Building” scoring 429 million viewing minutes following the release of Season 4 Episode 5. “Agatha All Along” also scored 365 million minutes viewed across its first three episodes, coming in at No. 10 on the streaming originals list.

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Kamala Harris’ CNN town hall delivered solid ratings just under two weeks ahead of the 2024 election.

As Harris sat down with CNN’s Anderson Cooper to discuss the election’s most pressing issues, the town hall scored 3.33 million viewers, according to Nielsen live-plus-same-day figures. The Wednesday event, which began at 9 p.m. ET and ran for approximately an hour and 11 minutes, also drew in 744,000 viewers in the key cable demo among adults 25-54.

Harris’ town hall ranked as the No. 1 most-watched program on cable among total viewers, and the No. 2 most-watched cable program in the key cable demo, behind only the NBA on ESPN.

The Harris town hall on CNN was up just slightly compared to Donald Trump’s women’s issues town hall last week, which scored 3.1 million viewers on Fox News (although his aired in daytime at 11 a.m. ET). It also tripled the 1.04 million viewers who tuned into Harris’ Univision town hall earlier this month.

Still, viewership for the CNN town hall was nearly doubled by Harris’ Fox News interview with Bret Baier on “Special Report With Bret Baier,” which brought in 7.8 million viewers just over a week ago.

The town hall boosted CNN to become the most-watched cable news network during the time of the event among both total viewers and in the key demo, outpacing Fox News, which scored 3.23 million total viewers and 423,000 demo viewers; as well as MSNBC, which saw a total viewership of 1.33 million and a demo viewership of 155,000.

In the demo, the CNN Harris town hall scored a higher audience among adults 25-54 than any other single candidate town hall in 2024, climbing above Trump’s Fox News town halls, which scored 576,000 demo viewers in January, 358,000 demo viewers in February and 440,000 viewers in the demo earlier in October.

As the town hall streamed live on Max and CNN.com, CNN’s web platform scored nearly half a million total day live starts on Wednesday.

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“Outer Banks” Season 4 held onto its title as Netflix’s most-watched TV show of the week for the second week in a row.

After the first half of Season 4 debuted atop the list following its Oct. 10 premiere with 15.5 million views, “Outer Banks” Season 4 maintained its dominance on the English TV list with 8.8 million views during the week of Oct. 14, despite its viewership being cut nearly in half. Viewing also spiked for “Outer Banks” Season 1, which rose to the No. 8 spot on the list with 2.2 million views.

Viewership for “Outer Banks” Season 4 narrowly outpaced the newest season of “The Lincoln Lawyer,” which debuted its third season on Oct. 17 and scored 7 million views to land in second place on the English TV list.

Netflix hits “Nobody Wants This” and “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” slid down further on the list, with “Nobody Wants This” taking third place with 6.2 million views in its fourth week on the streamer while Ryan Murphy’s anthology series scored fourth place with 5.3 million views in its fifth week. “Love Is Blind” Season 7 was next with 3.3 million views ahead of the debut of the finale.

On the film front, Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth’s “Lonely Planet” jumped up to the No. 1 spot on the English films list with 13.7 million views, improving from its viewership of 11 million in its debut week last week. That saw the romance movie take third place on the list, behind “The Menendez Brothers” documentary and “The Predator.”

Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, “Woman of the Hour,” scored second place on the films list with 9.9 million views, while “Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare” took third place with 7 million views.

“The Menendez Brothers” fell to 6.9 million views after debuting atop the films list last week with 22.7 million views, while “Sing” spent its 13th week on the streamer’s most-watched films list with 5.9 million views.

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Saturday’s Georgia-Texas game drew in the biggest audience a regular season college football game has seen since 2016.

The matchup between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Texas Longhorns averaged 12.9 million viewers on Saturday, Oct. 19, and peaked at 14.1 million viewers, according to Nielsen viewing figures. Not only did the game, which saw Georgia score a 30-15 victory over Texas, score the best viewership for a regular season game since 2016, but the Georgia-Texas game also scored the second biggest regular season audience in ten years.

The Tennessee-Alabama game, which saw Tennessee win 24-17 over Alabama, also broke records as the second most-watched matchup between the schools to date, with the game drawing 10.7 million viewers, and peaking at 14.7 million. Final viewership figures for both games will be available on Tuesday.

Together, the Georgia-Texas game and Tennessee-Alabama matchup, which ran as a doubleheader on ABC, marked the first time since 1996 that a single network aired to regular season college football games that drew over 10 million viewers on the same day.

This college football season has broken several viewership records, with last weekend’s Ohio State-Oregon game scoring the biggest primetime audience for a regular season Big Ten game since 2008 with an average viewership of 10.2 million across NBC, Peacock and NBC Sports digital platforms. The game became the most-watched regular season game between teams in the Big Ten conference since Oct. 25, 2008, when the Penn State-Ohio State game drew 10.4 million viewers on ABC.

Last week, the rivalry game between Oklahoma-Texas game scored 7.9 on ABC, marking the third most-watched Red River audience in a full national window, while the Alabama-South Carolina matchup scored a viewership of 6.4 million. The Ole Miss-LSU game scored 4.2 million viewers on ABC while the Tennessee game brought in 3.2 million viewers on ESPN, peaking with a viewership of 4.2 million.

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