Big Number
6.3M
Hulu’s Good American Family, starring Ellen Pompeo, snagged a good-sized audience for its April 30 finale. The streamer says the episode gathered 6.3 million views worldwide on Hulu and DIsney+ over six days, making it Hulu’s biggest finale of 2025 so far and the third-largest season or series ender ever on the platform. Good American Family ranked in Hulu’s internal top five every day during the show’s run. TV review.
Snapshot
The Pitt Picks Up
Word-of-mouth breakout The Pitt has grown steadily on the streaming charts, and it took a leap in the week of its season finale. The Max series racked up 852 million minutes of viewing time for the week of April 7-13; its season one finale premiered April 10. That’s a 44 percent spike on the 590 million minutes of watch time the show amassed a week earlier and among the best showings in Nielsen’s rankings ever for a Max original series. Full story.
STREAMING
Top Series
The most-viewed series of the week
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↑ Black Mirror, which debuted its seventh season on April 10, finished second overall with 1.08 billion minutes of viewing on Netflix, down some from the 1.36 billion minutes for season six’s first week.
NIELSEN STREAMING CONTENT RATINGS (April 7-April 13, most recent week); Updated May 8
Top Movies
The most-viewed films of the week
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↑ “G20’s lead actress Viola Davis was a hit among Black audiences, who accounted for nearly half (46%) of its viewing total,” Nielsen notes.
NIELSEN STREAMING CONTENT RATINGS (April 7-April 13, most recent week); Updated May 8
Los Angeles Film and TV Shoot Days Plunge
Filming levels in Los Angeles are slipping amid a global production crunch and escalating competition from other regions to host movies and TV shows. The three-month period from January to March saw losses in every category of production compared to the same period last year, according to a report from FilmLA issued on April 14. Shooting in L.A. decreased over 22 percent to 5,295 shoot days over that span.
More: THR‘s Film and TV Tax Credit news hub.
BOX OFFICE
Top Movies
The highest-grossing films domestically
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↑ Alec Baldwin’s controversial Western movie Rust flailed with an estimated opening gross of just $25,000 from 115 theaters.
COMSCORE (May 2-May 4)
TRAILER SPOTLIGHT
The Final Reckoning
The eighth installment of Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise, helmed by Christopher McQuarrie, arrives in theaters May 23.
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Upcoming Releases
Notable movies heading to theaters
May 9
May 16
Streaming Services’ Subscriber Growth
It has taken a few years, but more legacy Hollywood studios’ streaming businesses have started turning annual profits, with the rest touting progress toward that goal. Netflix, crowned on Wall Street as the undisputed king of streaming, grew its subscribers, revenue and profit in 2024. Meanwhile, among studios Warner Bros. Discovery last year managed a profit for the business that includes, among others, its streaming operations, while Disney swung to its first-ever full calendar-year streaming profit.
BROADCAST
Top TV
The most-viewed primetime network shows
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Tracker
CBS
8.22M
Viewers
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60 Minutes
CBS
6.86M
Viewers
3
Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage
CBS
5.63M
Viewers
4
NCIS
CBS
5.5M
Viewers
5
American Idol
ABC
5.17M
Viewers
Nielsen (April 28-May 4)
Inside View
The narrative behind the numbers
CBS
13 Episodes
17.5M
Viewers
Tracker Tops Broadcast
After debuting as the No. 1 network series (excluding sports) last season, Tracker is set to repeat at the top in 2024-25. The CBS drama starring Justin Hartley is averaging 17.5 million viewers per episode in Nielsen’s all-platform, 35-day ratings (as of mid-March, the most recent available figures), 1.4 million more than the second-place network shows (Matlock and High Potential). Only streaming giants Squid Game, Adolescence and Reacher average more viewers this season. Tracker also leads the linear rankings on broadcast TV and is the only non-sports network show to top 10 million viewers without streaming.
TOP TRENDING
This week’s most consumed, searched and shared content
SOURCE: PARROT ANALYTICS (APR 25 – MAY 1, 2025)
This ranking shows the most in-demand series that have debuted in the last 365 days on major platforms with US audiences.
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NEWS FEED
Box Office: ‘Thunderbolts*’ Flies to Solid $76M Opening, Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ Flails
Marvel’s ensemble superhero pic ‘Thunderbolts*’ debuted to an even bigger $86.1 million overseas for a global launch of $162.1 million as it kicks off the summer box office.
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Box Office: ‘Thunderbolts*’ Storming to $73M-$77M Opening, Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ Flops in Cinemas
Marvel’s star-studded ensemble pic led by Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan is winning over critics and audiences alike as it kicks off the summer box office season.
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Cinemark Swings to First-Quarter Loss Amid “Suppressed Box Office Environment”
“North American industry box office momentum accelerated in April, nearly doubling year-over-year, leading into a blockbuster summer film slate,” the exhibitor says, though.
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‘Lilo & Stitch’ and ‘Mission: Impossible’ Tracking to Sew Up Biggest Memorial Day Box Office in History
Disney’s live-action redo of the animated ‘Lilo & Stitch’ eyes a $120 million opening, while Tom Cruise’s latest ‘M:I’ movie is heading for a franchise-best start of $80 million or more.
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Box Office: Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry’s ‘Crime 101′ Lands Presidents’ Day Weekend 2026 Release (Exclusive)
The L.A.-set heist movie also stars Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, Monica Barbaro, Corey Hawkins, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Nick Nolte.
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Box Office: ‘Thunderbolts*’ to Kick Off Summer Season in Pivotal Moment for Marvel Studios
The ensemble superhero pic led by Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan brings together a crew of misfits and outsiders who discover they are true heroes when banding together.
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Mamoru Hosoda’s Anime Princess Film ‘Scarlet’ Lands December 2025 Release
Sony Pictures is co-producing and co-financing the pic with the acclaimed Japanese writer-director’s Studio Chizu and Nippon TV.
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