TV is truly back this week, with streaming debuting several new shows this week and broadcast rolling out new seasons of several favorites, breathing new life into streaming charts that have long looked, well, a bit stale. Keep reading to see how these new entries fared on Hulu, Disney+, Peacock and Max, and also whether Landman continued to dominate the Paramount+ chart.
Hulu:
The return of broadcast TV is in full swing now, and life has been breathed into Hulu once again. After a drought of what felt like months, where just about everything that actually aired on TV was able to make the chart and rank near the very top, the near-total return of Fox and ABC's programming slates made the Hulu charts competitive once again. Six different shows led the chart this week, including a few new entries. The Rookie, ABC's veteran police procedural, was one of two multi-day #1 shows this week, leading on both Wednesday and Thursday. It's rare to see a show race straight to #1 the day after it's aired, as it's only had a few hours to be streamed between the time episodes are added to Hulu and the time Hulu updates their list (usually around 1 PM). In addition to its quick rise to #1, it also charted two days this week before the the new season premiered, so excitement had already brewing before The Rookie's return. It held in the top four the remainder of the week, post-premiere. Also quickly rising to #1 was Tim Allen's Shifting Gears. While a family multicam isn't exactly the most streaming-friendly premise, there was a lot of interest in this show on both Hulu and broadcast last, with what looks to be an incredibly strong start to its run in every single place it's aired. This isn't much of a comeback for Tim Allen, who has starred in a TV show released every year since 2011, but clearly people are excited to see him back on ABC, a network he's called home on and off since Home Improvement began all the way back in 1991. The show debuted at #6 on the chart, and then rose to #1 the next day, slipping to #2 the day after that. It was dislodged from the #1 position by High Potential, which rose to the top spot four days after a new episode was added to Hulu. The Kaitlin Olson procedural has been an absolute breakout this season, and continued to show its strength by ranking in the top two Hulu ever since its newest episode came out, fending off plenty of competition as the week went on. 20/20 was the other show that topped the chart on multiple days, and it remained on the chart all week. Daytime soap General Hospital also went to #1 for what could be the last time for the time being. The show remained strong all week, ranking in the top ten all week, but most of its chart-topping performances came with reduced competition, and it hasn't been able to break into the upper echelons of the chart since ABC's heavy hitters returned. Will Trent also premiered a new season this week. It was the weakest link of the Tuesday block, but that's not a bad place to be when both other shows are big Hulu hits. Will Trent still did well enough to peak at #3 on the chart for two days. It showed more signs of slippage by week's end than the other two shows, but still looked solid enough at #7. That was much better than Thursday reality show Extreme Makeover, which had a decent showing after its first episode, ranking as high as #2 on the chart, but only went as high as #11 after the release of its second episode. Abbott Elementary had its best-ever linear showing this week, four seasons in, and it looked fairly solid on the Hulu charts as well, though both Shifting Gears and High Potential out-performed it on its best day, leading to a peak of #3 for the week. Celebrity Jeopardy! had a strong linear showing, but barely made a dent on the chart, entering at #13 and dropping off after just one day. What Would You Do? remained absent on the charts as it returned from its midseason break. Fox's debuts were much less successful than ABC's. Hell's Kitchen looked the best, peaking at #2 at the start of the week, though it didn't rise quite as high after the release of the most recent episode. Doc, their new medical drama, looked fairly decent, peaking at #4 and remaining in the top ten since its debut. Comedies Animal Control and Going Dutch looked fairly dire after the releases of their second episodes of the season. Going Dutch rose to #4 at the start of the week, when only its pilot was available, but the release of its second episode saw the show barely even sneaking onto the chart, ranking at #15 on Saturday, behind almost everything else Fox aired this week. Animal Control held a bit better, but still only peaked as high as #10 after its second episode was released. Fox reality entries Kitchen Nightmares and Special Forces both peaked towards the middle of the list, at #7 and #10 respectively. Bob's Burgers did not air this week, but still charted five times this week, peaking at #7. Golden Globe-winning shows Shōgun and The Bear saw new interest accompanying those victories, with Shōgun rising as high as #3 this week, while The Bear went as high as #11.
# | January 5 | January 6 | January 7 | January 8 | January 9 | January 10 | January 11 |
1 | 20/20 | 20/20 | General Hospital | The Rookie | The Rookie | Shifting Gears | High Potential |
2 | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | Hell’s Kitchen | 20/20 | High Potential | High Potential | High Potential | Shifting Gears |
3 | Hell’s Kitchen | Shōgun | Shōgun | Will Trent | Will Trent | Abbott Elementary | Goosebumps |
4 | Going Dutch | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | Hell’s Kitchen | TMZ Investigates: Luigi Mangione: The Mind of a Killer | Doc | The Rookie | The Rookie |
5 | General Hospital | Beyond the Headlines: The Tanya Kach Story | Going Dutch | 20/20 | General Hospital | Will Trent | Hell’s Kitchen |
6 | Beyond the Headlines: The Tanya Kach Story | Going Dutch | High Potential | General Hospital | Shifting Gears | Doc | Abbott Elementary |
7 | Animal Control | Bob’s Burgers | Bob’s Burgers | Shōgun | Kitchen Nightmares | Goosebumps | Will Trent |
8 | Bob’s Burgers | Animal Control | Beyond the Headlines: The Tanya Kach Story | Hell’s Kitchen | Abbott Elementary | General Hospital | General Hospital |
9 | High Potential | General Hospital | Good Morning America | Doc | 20/20 | Hell’s Kitchen | Doc |
10 | Lucky 13 | High Potential | Animal Control | Good Morning America | Shōgun | Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test | Animal Control |
11 | The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd | The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd | The Bear | Bob’s Burgers | ABC News World News Tonight with David Muir | 20/20 | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition |
12 | Shōgun | Family Guy | The Rookie | Going Dutch | Hell’s Kitchen | Kitchen Nightmares | 20/20 |
13 | 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | Abbott Elementary | The View | ABC News World News Tonight with David Muir | TMZ Investigates: Luigi Mangione: The Mind of a Killer | Celebrity Jeopardy! | Kitchen Nightmares |
14 | Manhunt: Luigi Mangione & the CEO Murder - A Special Edition of 20/20 | The Bear | Abbott Elementary | The View | Good Morning America | Shōgun | Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test |
15 | Family Guy | The Rookie | Family Guy | Animal Control | Bob’s Burgers | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | Going Dutch |
Disney+:
TV continued to look healthier on Disney+ this week. Star Wars: Skeleton Crew ranked #1 on the service twice this week, and placed within the top five nearly the entire week. ABC's Shifting Gears looked quite solid as well, also ranking at #1 two days in a row. Perhaps it shouldn't be a surprise that a sitcom starring a popular Disney veteran would perform so well on the chart, but ABC shows haven't had all that big of an imprint on the Disney+ chart since it began back in October. High Potential is one of the few shows that's consistently performed well, and it did so again in its return, peaking at #3 and charting for two days. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition also charted, at #10 both times, the first time a reality show has charted on Disney+. Inside Out spinoff Dream Productions continued to chart as well. It ranked at #5 for four days in a row, but has since dropped consistently since then, and sat at #8 at the close of the week. Goosebumps dropped its entire second season this week, debuting on the chart at #2. The series airs on both Hulu and Disney+, and charted high on Hulu as well, so it's hard to get a full scope of its performance, but it looks like a relatively solid start. It remains to be seen if it will have the staying power. of similar binge drops like Dream Productions, or if it will fade away fast. Of course, films again made up a huge part of the Disney+ top 10. Deadpool & Wolverine led the chart three times this week, while the 2019 Lion King remake, Paddington, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Nightbitch, and Adam Driver-led sci-fi film 65 all charted for multiple days.
# | January 5 | January 6 | January 7 | January 8 | January 9 | January 10 | January 11 |
1 | Deadpool & Wolverine | Deadpool & Wolverine | Deadpool & Wolverine | Star Wars: Skeleton Crew | Star Wars: Skeleton Crew | Shifting Gears | Shifting Gears |
2 | Paddington | The Lion King (2019) | The Lion King (2019) | Deadpool & Wolverine | The Lion King (2019) | The Lion King (2019) | Goosebumps |
3 | The Lion King (2019) | Paddington | Paddington | The Lion King (2019) | High Potential | Star Wars: Skeleton Crew | The Lion King (2019) |
4 | Star Wars: Skeleton Crew | Star Wars: Skeleton Crew | Star Wars: Skeleton Crew | Paddington | Paddington | Deadpool & Wolverine | Deadpool & Wolverine |
5 | Dream Productions | Dream Productions | Dream Productions | Dream Productions | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | Fall | Fall |
6 | Mufasa: The Lion King: First Look | Mufasa: The Lion King: First Look | The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | Dream Productions | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | Star Wars: Skeleton Crew |
7 | The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride | The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride | Mufasa: The Lion King: First Look | The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride | The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride | Dream Productions | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs |
8 | John Wick | Nightbitch | Nightbitch | Mufasa: The Lion King: First Look | Mufasa: The Lion King: First Look | High Potential | Dream Productions |
9 | Nightbitch | John Wick | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | Nightbitch | Fall | 65 | 65 |
10 | Amber Alert | Amber Alert | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | 65 | Paddington | Ice Age |
Note: Disney+ is the only service not to provide a separate list for TV shows and movies. On this chart, movies are listed in bold.
Peacock:
It was a week of big changes for Peacock. For one, we have a new leader on their top ten chart, with The Office finally slipping from #1 after dominating since mid-December, including five chart-topping days this week. However, the mockumentary sitcom about Scranton's most famous paper company was no match for the return of reality sensation The Traitors. The Traitors returned Thursday night and raced to #1 in no time, making it to the top by Friday afternoon and staying there on Saturday. It wasn't the only reality show to premiere well on Peacock this week, as Deal or No Deal Island debuted at #3 after premiering its new season. However, DONDI's stay on the chart was short, dropping off after after just one day. Part of that is because Dick Wolf's shows ended their Peacock hibernation, with the midseason premieres of the Chicago series pushing them onto the chart, as well as SVU, which isn't even back until next week, but still charted higher than any Chicago. PD was the top Chicago yet again, peaking at #4, while Fire was just behind it and Med was a bit behind Fire. Brilliant Minds and The Irrational, the only other scripted originals on NBC this week, did not chart at all despite airing, even though they aired at a time in the week where competition was relatively minimal. Happy's Place charted the first two days of the week, peaking at #7. Hallmark's The Way Home, which releases episodes on Peacock weekly, charted four days this week. Peacock originals almost uniformly departed the chart this week (The Traitors notwithstanding). Lockerbie: A Search for the Truth, which premiere the previous week, was off the chart six days into the week, while The Day of the Jackal and Laid ended long runs on the chart this week, falling off on Tuesday and Thursday, respectively. Days of Our Lives returned to the chart at the end of this week, though, at #9 on Friday and #10 on Saturday. Bravo shows took up a lot of real estate on the chart at the beginning of the week, with several Real Housewives series, Southern Charm and Married to Medicine all charting for several days.
# | January 5 | January 6 | January 7 | January 8 | January 9 | January 10 | January 11 |
1 | The Office - Superfan Episodes | The Office - Superfan Episodes | The Office - Superfan Episodes | The Office - Superfan Episodes | The Office - Superfan Episodes | The Traitors | The Traitors |
2 | Lockerbie: A Search for the Truth | Lockerbie: A Search for the Truth | Lockerbie: A Search for the Truth | Lockerbie: A Search for the Truth | Real Housewives of Beverly Hills | The Office - Superfan Episodes | The Office - Superfan Episodes |
3 | Southern Charm | Southern Charm | Snapped | Snapped | Deal or No Deal Island | Law & Order: SVU | Law & Order: SVU |
4 | Southern Hospitality | Southern Hospitality | Southern Charm | Real Housewives of Beverly Hills | Snapped | Chicago PD | Chicago PD |
5 | The Way Home | Laid | Married to Medicine | Southern Charm | Lockerbie: A Search for the Truth | Chicago Fire | Chicago Fire |
6 | Laid | The Day of the Jackal | Laid | Below Deck Sailiyn Yacht | Southern Charm | Chicago Med | Southern Charm |
7 | Happy’s Place | The Way Home | Real Housewives of Potomac | Laid | Chicago PD | Real Housewives of Salt Lake City | Chicago Med |
8 | Love After Lockup | Love After Lockup | The Way Home | The Way Home | Chicago Fire | Real Housewives of Beverly Hills | Real Housewives of Beverly Hills |
9 | The Day of the Jackal | Happy’s Place | Southern Hospitality | Love After Lockup | Real Housewives of Salt Lake City | Days of Our Lives | Love After Lockup |
10 | Real Housewives of Beverly Hills | Married to Medicine | Love After Lockup | Southern Hospitality | Chicago Med | Southern Charm | Days of Our Lives |
Note: Peacock's top 10 chart updates throughout the day. For consistency, all data collection is done daily at 2 PM.
Paramount+:
It was another quiet week on Paramount+, with no new entries on the chart and almost nothing airing on CBS to give us any hope of shaking the chart up. Raid the Cage and The Price as Right at Night were the only originals on CBS this week, and neither charted this week. Landman topped the chart every day of this week, yet again, and fellow Taylor Sheridan shows Lioness and Tulsa King remained toward the top of the chart for the entire week. NCIS was the top CBS show once again. Fellow Monday show The Neighborhood had a one-day appearance on the chart, while NCIS: Origins and Poppa's House didn't chart. Nor did the FBIs, or most of the Thursday or Friday shows, or either of the Sunday shows. The absence of nearly all of CBS's shows made Ghosts, Blue Bloods and NCIS's permanent residence on the charts look all the more impressive. Dexter also charted every day this week, while spin-off/prequel Dexter: Original Sin charted at the end of the week, once a new episode was released. Criminal Minds had a strong week, peaking as high as #4 and only going as low as #6. SEAL Team also charted sporadically, with four chart appearances in all.
# | January 5 | January 6 | January 7 | January 8 | January 9 | January 10 | January 11 |
1 | Landman | Landman | Landman | Landman | Landman | Landman | Landman |
2 | Tulsa King | Tulsa King | NCIS | NCIS | NCIS | NCIS | Lioness |
3 | Lioness | NCIS | Tulsa King | Lioness | Lioness | SpongeBob SquarePants | NCIS |
4 | NCIS | Lioness | Criminal Minds | Criminal Minds | Criminal Minds | Criminal Minds | Tulsa King |
5 | Dexter | Criminal Minds | SpongeBob SquarePants | Tulsa King | Tulsa King | Lioness | SpongeBob SquarePants |
6 | Criminal Minds | SpongeBob SquarePants | Lioness | Dexter | Dexter | Tulsa King | Criminal Minds |
7 | Ghosts | Dexter | Dexter | SpongeBob SquarePants | SpongeBob SquarePants | Dexter | Dexter |
8 | Blue Bloods | Ghosts | Blue Bloods | Blue Bloods | Blue Bloods | Blue Bloods | Blue Bloods |
9 | SpongeBob SquarePants | Blue Bloods | Ghosts | Ghosts | Ghosts | Dexter: Original Sin | Ghosts |
10 | SEAL Team | SEAL Team | The Neighborhood | SEAL Team | SEAL Team | Ghosts | Dexter: Original Sin |
Note: As with Peacock, Paramount+'s top 10 chart updates throughout the day. For consistency, all data collection is done daily at 2 PM.
Max:
Since the beginning of this article series, you could count on Max to have one show that tops their top 10 chart for nearly the entire week, if not the entire week. First it was the Penguin, then it was Dune: Legacy - both of them being HBO's tentpole Sunday night dramas. With no scripted originals on HBO right now, this has left a wide opening for a variety of programs to lead the chart. Five different shows rose to #1 on Max this week. The first of which was The Sex Lives of College Girls, which for the past few weeks has been hitting #1 after its weekly episode drops. This time, it charted at #1 for the first two days of the week, a few days after last week's episode, but it was blocked from returning to #1 later in the week. Despite that, it remained a strong entry all week, never dropping below #3 this week - the only show that can say that. Unscripted TV made its way to #1 for the first time on Max this week, with Sister Wives rising to #1 on Tuesday and The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: The Final Chapter hitting #1 on Wednesday and remaining there on Thursday. Creature Commandos went to #1 on Friday, after releasing its season finale on Thursday morning. It performed fairly well the rest of the week, as well, spending all but one day in the top five. Perhaps the most interesting datapoint, however, is that of new hospital drama The Pitt. Reuniting Noah Wyle with several producers from ER, including show runner John Wells, this hospital drama, set in real time, entered strong at #3 on Friday, despite only releasing its first few episodes at 9 PM on the night before. It rose to #1 the next day, suggesting a strong start for the series. Bookie was the only scripted original on Max not to go to #1 this week despite airing a new episode. In fact, it never broke into the top three, peaking at #4 and going as low as #10. Max original Hacks returned to the list this week after a strong showing at this week's Golden Globes, with the series winning Best Comedy and Jean Smart winning for her leading performance. It was consistently towards the bottom of the chart, peaking at #8, but it did chart four days in all. The West Wing also made the list at the end of the week, at #9. The series recently made headlines after being unexpectedly removed from the service, with Max rushing it back onto the service within days after several websites reported on the removal of the beloved and acclaimed series, calling the removal a mistake. HBO's only ongoing show, Hard Knocks, charted for six of the last seven days, and peaked at #2.
# | January 5 | January 6 | January 7 | January 8 | January 9 | January 10 | January 11 |
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1 | The Sex Lives of College Girls | The Sex Lives of College Girls | Sister Wives | The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: The Final Chapter | The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: The Final Chapter | Creature Commandos | The Pitt |
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2 | Creature Commandos | Creature Commandos | 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days | 90 Day: The Last Resort | Hard Knocks | The Sex Lives of College Girls | The Sex Lives of College Girls |
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3 | Dune: Prophecy | Dune: Prophecy | The Sex Lives of College Girls | The Sex Lives of College Girls | The Sex Lives of College Girls | The Pitt | Creature Commandos |
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4 | Bookie | Bookie | Creature Commandos | 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days | 90 Day: The Last Resort | The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: The Final Chapter | Bookie |
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5 | Shining Vale | Shining Vale | Dune: Prophecy | Hard Knocks | Creature Commandos | Bookie | The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: The Final Chapter |
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6 | Hard Knocks | The White Lotus | Shining Vale | Dune: Prophecy | Dune: Prophecy | Hard Knocks | Hard Knocks |
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7 | Gold Rush | Expedition Files | Bookie | Creature Commandos | Shining Vale | Dune: Prophecy | Dune: Prophecy |
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8 | Expedition Files | Superman & Lois | Hacks | Sister Wives | 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days | Shining Vale | Shining Vale |
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9 | The White Lotus | Very Scary People | The White Lotus | Shining Vale | Bookie | 90 Day: The Last Resort | The West Wing |
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10 | Superman & Lois | The Head | Hard Knocks | Bookie | Hacks | Hacks | Hacks |
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