‘Black Mirror’ Leads Nielsen Streaming Top 10 After Release of Season Six

Deadline has reported that Netflix’s Black Mirror has reached the top of Nielsen’s streaming top 10 list for the week of June 12 to June 18. This is following the June 15 release of season six of Black Mirror, which Netflix called “the most unpredictable, unclassifiable and unexpected yet,” according to Deadline.

The series received 1.4 billion viewing minutes across the 27 episodes of the sixth season.

Black Mirror first debuted on December 4, 2011 on Channel 4 before moving to Netflix in 2016.

CBS’s S.W.A.T., which streams on Netflix, Hulu, and Paramount+, was number two on the Nielsen streaming top 10. It garnered 1.2 billion viewing minutes on all three platforms. This moved James Cameron’s (Titanic, The Terminator) Avatar: The Way of Water from number one the previous week to number three. The film received 1.059 billion viewing minutes on Max and Disney+. Extraction 2 takes the fourth spot with 1.023 billion minutes viewed on Netflix.

Number five on the list is Netflix’s Manifest with 969 million minutes viewed. The series originally debuted on NBC on September 24, 2018 and moved to Netflix for its fourth season on November 4, 2022. It stars Melissa Roxburgh (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Travelers), Josh Dallas (Once Upon a Time, Thor: The Dark World), Athena Karkanis (Wild Kratts, Lost Girl), and J.R. Ramirez (Power, Marvel’s. Jessica Jones).

Number six is Netflix’s Never Have I Ever with 832 million minutes viewed. The series debuted on April 27, 2020 and stars Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (Turning Red, Acting for a Cause), Darren Barnet (Gran Turismo, Love Hard), Michael Cimino (Senior Year, How I Met Your Father), Jaren Lewison (Tag, A Horse Tale), Richa Moorjani (Fargo, For Here or To Go?), and Poorna Jagannathan (Better Call Saul, The Blacklist).

The seventh spot goes to CBS’s NCIS with 701 million minutes viewed across Netflix and Paramount+. Number eight is Heartland with 678 million minutes viewed on Hulu, Netflix, and Peacock. Number nine is Bluey with 669 million viewing minutes on Disney+ and number ten is Cocomelon with 541 million viewing minutes on Netflix.

Krista Dadasis: Boston University Media Science major and television writer.
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