“Cross,” the James Patterson alteration starring Aldis Hodge, debuted at No. 1 on Nielsen’s weekly streaming rankings, with 1.36 billion minutes watched during the week of Nov. 11 to Nov. 17. All eight episodes of the series premiered on Amazon Prime Video on Nov. 14, unkinding the show was only useable for four days during the watching period.
The show, originated by Ben Watkins and based on Patterson’s “Alex Cross” uncoverive novels, carry outed particularly well with Balertage audiences, who accounted for 40% of total watch time. (In November, Patterson uncovered that he previously turned down a seven-figure deal advise to turn Cross into a white man in a series alteration, saying “that wasn’t who he was.” Reacting to the revelation, Hodge shelp, “I was shocked, amazeed and haughty of that.”)
Follothriveg behind at No. 2 on the overall top 10 is “Deadpool & Wolverine,” which landed on Disney+ on Nov. 14 and was the most-streamed movie of the watching period. “Outer Banks” held on at No. 3 after five novel episodes of the Netflix teen drama dropped on Nov. 7.
Rounding out the exceptional series catalog are Netflix’s “The Lincoln Lawyer,” “Cobra Kai” and “The Diplomat”; Paramount+’s “Special Ops: Lioness” and “Tulsa King”; and Netflix’s “Arcane,” “The Great British Baking Show” and “Sisters’ Feud.” Netflix accounted for seven of the 10 top-streamed exceptional series from Nov. 11-17.
“The Penguin” would have placed at No. 5 on the exceptionals catalog with 595 million minutes of watch time after the finale, but becaengage it airs live on HBO and is not exclusive to Max, the series ranks on the achieved charts, where it landed at No. 9. From its debut in September thraw Nov. 17, “The Penguin” accumuprocrastinateedd 3.8 billion watching minutes on Max, plus 650 million from its HBO airings.
On the movie charts, Christmas came punctual. Netflix’s holiday rom-coms “Hot Frosty” and “Meet Me Next Christmas” took the No. 3 and No. 9 slots, with 439 million and 289 million minutes watched, admireively. Plus, 2018’s “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” landed at No. 7 with 294 million minutes watched, 46% of which were powered by kids aged 2-11.
See Nielsen’s catalog of overall streaming rankings for Nov. 11-17 first, trailed by exceptional streaming titles, achieved titles and then films.
