The latest streaming and TV ratings, box office grosses, industry data — and the narratives behind the numbers.
Updated daily: March 4, 2026
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Big Number
11.36M
The revival of Scrubs kept up its momentum after a solid on-air premiere. The ABC comedy’s Feb. 25 premiere has racked up 11.36 million viewers across all platforms over five days. That’s more than double the 4.41 million viewers who tuned in for the first airing, with streaming on Hulu and Disney+ and two on-air repeats making up the difference. The Scrubs premiere also had the best streaming performance for any ABC comedy episode in 13 months, since the series premiere of Shifting Gears in January 2025.
Streaming
Bridgerton Returns
A 19-month wait between seasons of Bridgerton seemingly did little to dissipate the ardor for the Netflix series. Season four of the period drama premiered at No. 1 overall on Nielsen’s latest streaming charts, scoring 3.03 billion minutes of viewing for the week. That’s 10 percent higher than the opening week of season three in May 2024; like the current season, that one was split into two parts, premiering four weeks apart. About 2.24 billion minutes — 74 percent of Bridgerton’s total for the week total — were devoted to the four new episodes that premiered Jan. 29, Nielsen says.
STREAMING
The most-viewed series and movies of the week
↑ Bridgerton season four bowed 10 percent higher than the opening week of season three in May 2024
↑ Prime Video led the movie charts with The Wrecking Crew, an action comedy starring Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa. It had 1.26 billion minutes of viewing, good for third place overall.
↑ Prime Video’s Fallout had its best week since the premiere of season two, notching 1.1 billion minutes a week before its season finale. It grew by 35 percent week to week.
↑ Rizzoli & Isles, which originally premiered on TNT in 2010, is the latest show to benefit from being added to Netflix and seeing a boost in viewership.
BOX OFFICE
The highest-grossing films domestically each weekend
↑ Spyglass’ franchise-best launch for Scream 7 gives David Ellison’s Paramount-Skydance additional reason to celebrate after prevailing in its bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery when Netflix bowed out.
BROADCAST
Top TV
The most-viewed network shows
What’s premiering on TV this week:
Wednesday, March 4
Young Sherlock (Prime Video)
The Hunt (Apple TV)
9 p.m.: Southern Hospitality (Bravo), Dirty Rotten Scandals (E!), Flavortown Food Fight (Food Network)
9:30 p.m.: America’s Culinary Cup (CBS)
10:30 p.m.: Hollywood Squares (CBS, new time)
Thursday, March 5
Ted (Peacock, all episodes)
Vladimir (Netflix)
9 p.m.: Ladies of London: The New Reign (Bravo)
Friday, March 6
The Dinosaurs (Netflix)
8 p.m.: Outlander (Starz, final season)
Saturday, March 7
10 p.m.: Duck Dynasty: The Revival (A&E)
Inside View
The narrative behind the numbers
CBS
1 Episode
Viewers 9.52M
Marshals Big Bow
The first Yellowstone-verse series to premiere on a broadcast network has carried on the franchise’s winning track record. Marshals, a Yellowstone spinoff focused on Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes), drew the biggest premiere audience for a scripted show of the 2025-26 season — and quite a few seasons before that. Excluding shows with football as a lead-in, March 1’s debut episode had the largest same-day audience (9.52 million viewers) for a broadcast scripted series premiere since FBI topped 10 million viewers in September 2018. (One caveat: Nielsen has changed its ratings collection methodology a few times since 2018.)
BROADWAY
The top theatrical productions each week
↑ Broadway grosses tumbled 17.5 percent and attendance fell 8.4 percent, as Chicago, Every Brilliant Thing, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Six and The Great Gatsby lost a performance last week.
Trailer Spotlight
The Bride!
Director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s fresh take on Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein tale is set in 1930s Chicago and will hit theaters on March 6.
PREVIEW
Upcoming Releases
Notable movies heading to theaters
TRENDING
This week’s most searched and shared content
SOURCE: PARROT ANALYTICS ( Jan 30, 2026 – Feb 5, 2026)
This ranking shows the most in-demand series that have debuted in the last 365 days on major platforms with US audiences.
NEWS FEED
Luxury Movie Theater Chain iPic Files for Bankruptcy
iPic Theaters never fully recovered after emerging from bankruptcy in 2019. It pointed to drops in theater attendance and a not-so-viable arrangement with studios on box office splits.
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China Box Office: ‘Pegasus 3’ Climbs to $530 Million But Holiday Market Lags Far Behind 2025
Car-racing hit ‘Pegasus 3’ continues its dominant run with a $49.5 million weekend, while ‘Blades of the Guardians’ overtakes Zhang Yimou’s ‘Scare Out’ for second place — but overall 2026 ticket revenue remains down nearly 56 percent year on year.
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Box Office: ‘Scream 7’ Scares Up Record $64M U.S. Opening, $97M Globally for a Victorious Paramount
The Spyglass pic’s franchise-best launch gives David Ellison’s Paramount-Skydance additional reason to celebrate after prevailing in its bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery when Netflix bowed out.
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As Movie Theater Chains Struggle, Imax Box Office Surges In Fourth Quarter
Amid an industry attendance slump, the film technologies company saw overall Q4 revenues soar 35 percent to $125.2 million on an ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ lift.
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‘That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea’ Lands Early Summer 2026 Release
The Crunchyroll/Sony movie is based on the popular anime series.
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Box Office: ‘Zootopia 2’ Shatters Another Record, Zooms Past ‘Minecraft’ to Top 2025 Domestic Chart
The Disney mega-blockbuster was already the top-grossing Hollywood pic of 2025 at both the worldwide and international box office — not to mention becoming the No. 1 animated studio pic of all time.
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Box Office Preview: ‘Scream 7’ Set to Deliver Year’s Top Opening With $40 Million-Plus
Many pundits believe the slasher pic will make franchise history in besting the $44.4 million domestic launch of the last installment. Globally, the movie is eyeing a $60 million start.
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