The FX and Hulu legendary series “Shōgun,” based upon James Clavell's well known 1975 unique, slayed streaming competitors today to hand Hulu its very first No. 1 slot in the Samba Television Weekly Wrap for the week of Feb. 26 to March 3.
The very first episode of the preliminary three-episode drop of the much-anticipated series was enjoyed by a 1.8 million U.S. families over its very first 6 days. Assisting offer the series its bump were child boomers, with the group over-indexing above the nationwide average by 15%.
Comprising the remainder of the Top 10, 2 banners broke through Netflix's hold: Max's splash launching of the “Aquaman” follow up “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” at No. 5 and Apple television+'s brand-new hit “Masters of the Air” landing back on the charts at No. 8 after falling off recently.
The leading 3 from recently comprised the remainder of the leading 5 today. Significantly, the extremely buzzed about live-action very first season of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” bumped out Season 6 of “Love is Blind” to come in at No. 2, landing “Love is Blind” in No. 3, followed by Tyler Perry's “Mea Culpa” in No. 4.
Comprising the bottom half of this week's leading 10 was the follow up “Code 8: Part II” in 6th, “American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders” in seventh, Season 1 of SyFy's “Resident Alien” dropping from No. 5 to No. 8, and the Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan motion picture “Spaceman” at No. 10.
For today's direct rankings, ABC controlled with 5 of the Top 10 areas, led by truth and video game reveal stalwarts “American Idol” with the No. 2 and No. 4 areas, “Wheel of Fortune” in No. 6 and No. 8, and “The Bachelor” in No. 7.
NBC's “The Voice” sang its method to the very first and 3rd slots this week. Scripted shows comprised simply 3 of the Top 10, with NBC's “Chicago Med” taking its location in 5th, and CBS's “The Equalizer” and “FBI” being available in at No. 9 and No. 10 respectively.
Cole Strain is VP and Head of R&D at Samba Television, a WrapPRO partner. Click on this link for more information and analysis from Samba television.
The Wrap Report offers an unique very first take a look at the most seen films and television series from the previous week throughout both streaming and direct tv sourced from viewership patterns gathered from Samba television's panel of more than 3 million families, well balanced to the U.S. Census.
