Following Wednesday‘s slight decrease in viewership, after seven weeks of having one billion minutes viewed in the week of January 9 to 15, Ginny & Georgia and The Walking Dead take the top two spots in the U.S. Nielsen streaming charts, according to Deadline. Nielsen also reported that HBO’s The Last of Us had impressive ratings for its first episode on January 15, having 223 million minutes viewed in the few hours it made it into the deadline for the week.
The Last of Us stars Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian, Narcos), Bella Ramsey (The Worst Witch, Catherine Called Birdy), Anna Torv (Mindhunter, Fringe) and Gabriel Luna (Dumbo, Reminiscence). It follows Pascal’s Joel and Ramsey’s Ellie as they try and survive in the aftermath of an infectious fungus outbreak. It is available to stream on HBO Max and Hulu and airing weekly on HBO.
The top spot of the Nielsen charts was held by Ginny & Georgia, which had its second season debut on Netflix on January 5, 2023 and had 2.7 billion minutes viewed in the week following its release. Nielsen does not separate seasons in its numbers, but Netflix data says that both season are in the services’ top 10 series since season two aired.
Ginny & Georgia stars Antonia Gentry (Candy Jar, Time Cut), Brianne Howey (The Passage, Scream Queens), Felix Mallard (Locke & Key, All the Bright Places), and Katie Douglas (Level 16, Mary Kills People). The series is set around Gentry as Ginny and her family as they try to settle into a New England town after being on the run for years. The first season was released on Netflix on February 24, 2021.
Second place on the list was The Walking Dead, with 1.4 billion viewing minutes. The 11th season of the series was put on Netflix on January 6. It stars Norman Reedus (The Boondock Saints, Sky), Andrew Lincoln (Love Actually, This Life), Melissa McBride (The Mist, The Walking Dead: Origins), and Lauren Cohen (The Boy, Mile 22) and is based on the comic series by Robert Kirkman (Rick Grimes 2000, Marvel Zombies). It portrays the characters struggling in the years of life after the zombie apocalypse. It first aired on October 31, 2010 and the finale aired on November 20, 2022.
No. three on the list was Netflix’s Vikings: Valhalla with about 1 billion viewing minutes. It stars Leo Suter (Vikings, Victoria), Frida Gustavsson (Tigers, Swoon), Laura Berlin (Ruby Red, Snow White), and Sam Corlett (The Dry, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) and first aired February 25, 2022.
Netflix had several more spots on the charts with Cocomelon, NCIS, Kaleidacope, and New Amsterdam. The only series’ on the list that do not stream on Netflix are Friends on HBO Max and Bluey on Disney+. No films made the list according to Nielsen, the most-streamed film was The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker on Netflix with 646 million viewing minutes.