Kate Hudson’s Netflix basketball comedy Running Point made a big bow on Nielsen’s latest streaming viewership snapshot even as Prime Video’s Reacher led the chart overall for the week.
Reacher totaled up 1.48 billion minutes viewed during the Feb. 24 to March 2 frame, Nielsen said in its weekly update Thursday. Last week’s champ, Netflix’s Robert De Niro political thriller Zero Day, fell a spot overall with 1.47 billion as the No. 1 and 2 series swapped places in the most recent week in the data firm’s tally.
Running Point, which chronicles the ups and downs of a pro basketball team that is not the Los Angeles Lakers (and is exec produced by Lakers owner Jeanie Buss), clocked in at No. 4 overall with more than a billion minutes viewed in its first week on Nielsen’s streaming chart.
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Over on the film side, the blockbuster Despicable Me franchise is back at the top of the movies chart with Despicable Me 4 moving beyond Peacock and heading over to Netflix. Sony’s Tom Hardy trilogy ender Venom: The Last Dance also made its Netflix debut. Both of those titles, which saw more than 900 million minutes viewed, far outpaced other movies during the frame.
Also of note: Apple TV+’s Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller film The Gorge, its lone representative on the top 10, fell to No. 8 from No. 3 last week.
Last week the movies chart was led by the 2023 Shailene Woodley indie crime thriller To Catch a Killer, followed by 2018 Laura Dern drama Trial by Fire, both benefitting from Netflix’s promotion algorithm. Those films dropped to No. 4 and No. 9 this week.
And as a disclaimer, Nielsen’s streaming charts track only TV sets and exclude computers and phones. The ratings also only cover viewers in the United States. The top streaming titles for Feb. 24 to March 2 are below.
