- ‘Suits’ Beats ‘The Office’ Streaming Record in 2023; Nielsen Reveals Original Streaming Shows Shut Out of Yearly Top 10 Variety
- ‘Suits’ and ‘Friends’: Here’s What Americans Streamed in 2023 The New York Times
- ‘Ted Lasso’ Was 2023’s Most-Watched Streaming Original In U.S. As ‘Suits’ Led Acquired Content Boom, Nielsen Says Deadline
- Suits? Ted Lasso? Cocomelon? What were 2023’s most streamed TV shows in the US? The Guardian
- ‘Suits’ Sets Another Streaming Record for 2023: Biggest Year Ever Hollywood Reporter
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‘Ted Lasso’ Was 2023’s Most-Watched Streaming Original In U.S. As ‘Suits’ Led Acquired Content Boom, Nielsen Says – Deadline
- ‘Ted Lasso’ Was 2023’s Most-Watched Streaming Original In U.S. As ‘Suits’ Led Acquired Content Boom, Nielsen Says Deadline
- ‘Suits’ and ‘Friends’: Here’s What Americans Streamed in 2023 The New York Times
- Suits? Ted Lasso? Cocomelon? What were 2023’s most streamed TV shows in the US? The Guardian
- ‘Suits’ Beats ‘The Office’ Streaming Record in 2023; Nielsen Reveals Original Streaming Shows Shut Out of Yearly Top 10 Variety
- ‘Suits’ sets new streaming record in 2023, eclipsing ‘The Office’ Reuters
‘The Bear’ Season 2 Lands At No. 5 On Nielsen Streaming Top 10; ‘Suits’ Takes The Lead – Deadline
- ‘The Bear’ Season 2 Lands At No. 5 On Nielsen Streaming Top 10; ‘Suits’ Takes The Lead Deadline
- Nielsen Streaming Top 10: ‘Suits’ Leads With 2 Billion Minutes Watched After Netflix Debut, ‘The Bear’ Lands at No. 5 Variety
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- ‘The Bear’ Feasts in Streaming Rankings Hollywood Reporter
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‘Beef’ Enters Nielsen Streaming List At No. 4 & ‘Ted Lasso’ Sets A Weekly Best For Viewership As ‘The Night Agent’ Continues To Reign – Deadline
- ‘Beef’ Enters Nielsen Streaming List At No. 4 & ‘Ted Lasso’ Sets A Weekly Best For Viewership As ‘The Night Agent’ Continues To Reign Deadline
- Nielsen Streaming Top 10 Chart: ‘BEEF’ Debuts, ‘Night Agent” #1 Again TVLine
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- Night Agent Threepeats Atop Nielsen Streaming Chart, BEEF Debuts at No. 4 Yahoo Entertainment
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Atlanta Falcons hire Ryan Nielsen as defensive coordinator
LAS VEGAS — The Atlanta Falcons hired Ryan Nielsen as defensive coordinator Friday, taking him from their biggest rival after he spent last season as the co-defensive coordinator of the New Orleans Saints.
The 43-year-old Nielsen spent the past six seasons with the Saints, where he was the defensive line coach all six years while adding the assistant head coach title in 2021 and co-defensive coordinator last season.
Since 2017, the Saints have recorded 281 sacks — second-most in the NFL over that span — and have finished in the top four in run defense in four of the past five seasons.
The Falcons on Friday also let go of three defensive coaches — line coach Gary Emanuel, outside linebackers coach Ted Monachino and secondary coach Jon Hoke.
Nielsen is not in Las Vegas with the Falcons staff presently, as Atlanta is coaching in the East-West Shrine Bowl. Linebackers coach Frank Bush is the defensive coordinator for Atlanta at the East-West game.
The Falcons needed a new defensive coordinator after Dean Pees, the oldest coordinator in the NFL last season at age 73, decided to retire for the third time in his career to spend more time with his family, among other things.
Pees built a foundation for Atlanta’s defense, both in the style they want to run and the culture they needed to permeate throughout the roster.
“It was a different system from what they had,” Pees said. “So you had to get them to buy in.”
The Falcons also had a young defense and turned over all but two starters from the 2020 team — defensive tackle Grady Jarrett and cornerback A.J. Terrell — by the middle of last season. While Atlanta finished No. 23 in points allowed and No. 27 in yards allowed in 2022, there was progress toward the end of the year.
The Falcons allowed more than 19 points once in their last six games and over 350 yards in one game over the second half of the season (351 against Pittsburgh) after allowing over 350 yards in six of Atlanta’s first eight games.
After the season, Falcons head coach Arthur Smith said the franchise wanted to speak with a multitude of potential candidates before making a decision, but also wanted to focus on flexibility with whomever he brought in.
“When you are building that hybrid model, you’re not looking for an overhaul,” Smith said. “We’ve been building something here.”
He didn’t limit his search, having interviewed candidates with prior defensive coordinator experience, prior head coaching experience and those who have not been a full-time solo defensive coordinators.
When Smith hired Pees, he wanted an experienced playcaller who also could serve as a mentor for a first-time head coach to lean on. In Pees, Smith had that.
Where they are now, Smith said, is different than two seasons ago. By the end of 2022, the Falcons had only five defensive players left on the roster from the previous regime — Jarrett, Terrell, linebacker Mykal Walker, cornerback Isaiah Oliver and safety Jaylinn Hawkins. Oliver is a free agent this offseason and both Walker and Hawkins are in the final years of their contracts.
Smith compared what he was hoping Atlanta could do to the Baltimore Ravens, who have had multiple defensive coordinators over the years and have made alterations to their scheme, but not to the type of players they looked for or the vision they had for the overarching plan of the defense.
“The way we’ve built,” Smith said. “That won’t change.”
Nielsen grew up in Southern California and then went to college at USC as a defensive tackle and then became a volunteer assistant coach.
He spent the first 15 years of his coaching career in college, working with the defensive line at every stop along with being a defensive coordinator at Central Connecticut State in 2008 and 2009 and the co-defensive coordinator at Northern Illinois in 2012.
Falcons name Ryan Nielsen the next defensive coordinator in Atlanta
The Falcons have named former Saints co-defensive coordinator and defensive line coach Ryan Nielsen as the next defensive coordinator in Atlanta, the team announced on Friday.
The Falcons interviewed Nielsen on Tuesday, according to a report by NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo. Nielsen has been with the Saints organization since the 2017 season.
Nielsen got his coaching start at the college level. He spent two seasons at Northern Illinois and four seasons as the defensive line coach, recruiting coordinator and run game coordinator at North Carolina State. Nielsen left the college ranks to join the Saints coaching staff as their defensive line coach, a position he has held since 2017. It was there that Nielsen met Falcons general manager Terry Fontenot, who spent 18 seasons in the Saints front office.
The Saints defensive front has been one of the league’s best for the last decade. Since Nielsen joined the Saints staff in 2017, New Orleans has recorded 281 sacks – that’s the second most in the NFL over that span – and finished in the top 10 in sacks in five of the last six seasons.
Also, during Nielsen’s time in New Orleans from 2017 to 2020, the Saints put together 55 regular season and postseason games without allowing a 100-yard rusher.
In other news, the Falcons have reportedly parted ways with defensive line coach Gary Emanuel, outside linebackers coach Ted Monachino and secondary coach Jon Hoke.
‘House Of The Dragon’ Powers HBO Max As Three Of Its Series Make Nielsen Streaming Top 10 – Deadline
HBO Max, which just became part of Nielsen’s weekly U.S. streaming rankings a few weeks ago, had a coming-out party on the chart for August 22 to 28 thanks to House of the Dragon.
The Game of Thrones prequel racked up 741 million minutes of viewing from its two episodes — the second of which was cut off after just its first three hours due to Nielsen’s methodology. That was good for sixth place for the week, but rabid interest in the series propelled the original Thrones as well as library sitcom The Big Bang Theory into the top 10.
Netflix’s Echoes captured the weekly title, with a bit more than 1.1 billion minutes of viewing across its seven episodes.
Nielsen measures viewing only via a TV screen in the U.S. for Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Hulu, Apple TV+ and HBO Max, delivering results after about a month’s delay.
House of the Dragon has been a stellar performer since its debut, averaging 29 million viewers across platforms (including linear) in the U.S. Because of the way Nielsen captures its weekly numbers, only the first three hours of availability on HBO Max on Sunday night go toward the show’s total.
Netflix’s Kevin Hart-Mark Wahlberg comedy movie Me Time drew 971 million viewing minutes in its first three days online, earning the No. 2 spot on the chart. It was the only movie on the overall top 10, though Prime Video’s Sylvester Stallone outing Samaritan, pulled in 567 million viewing minutes to finish second on Nielsen’s all-movie chart. About 55% of its audience was older than 50, the company said.
Here is the full top 10:
Echoes (Netflix) – 7 episodes, 1.123 billion minutes of viewing
Me Time (Netflix) – film, 971M min.
Game Of Thrones (HBO Max) – 73 eps., 909M min.
Stranger Things (Netflix) – 34 eps., 890M min.
NCIS (Netflix) – 354 eps., 770M min.
House Of The Dragon (HBO Max) – 2 episodes, 741M min.
The Sandman (Netflix) – 11 eps., 681M min.
Cocomelon (Netflix) – 18 eps., 677M min.
Bluey (Disney+) – 112 eps., 615M min.
The Big Bang Theory (HBO Max) – 265 eps., 606M min.
Protests disrupt Tour de France stage 10 before Magnus Cort Nielsen claims win | Tour de France
Senior officials from the Tour de France organisation were seen dragging climate change protestors into a ditch during the tenth stage of this year’s race from Morzine to Megeve altiport.
Despite being chained together around the neck, a small group of young protesters were dragged off the race route by tour officials. At around 36 kilometres from the finish, on a section of straight road, the protesters sat on the course and set off red flares. The stage breakaway and peloton were both halted until the road was cleared.
Climate activists from the Derniere Renovation movement said: “Since the government doesn’t care about the climate crisis, we need to come and take over the Tour de France to refocus attention on what matters for our survival. We need to make our government react as they lead us to the slaughterhouse. Non-violent disruption is our last chance to be heard and avoid the worst consequences of global warming,” the group said.
The Tour’s organisers, ASO, declined to comment on the protest. Commentating on the scene on an in-race motorbike, Sir Bradley Wiggins told Eurosport viewers: “It really was going off. It was quite crazy.
“A lot of people getting quite angry, some of the directeur sportifs got out the cars, stuck a boot in.”
The Derniere Renovation group was responsible for an interruption at the French Open tennis, when a protester jumped on to the court and tied herself to the net, wearing a T-shirt saying “We have 1,028 days left.” In the Tour protest, they were seen wearing T-shirts stating: “We have 989 days left.”
The Tour has long been the target of protests but this took place against the backdrop of the race organisers pledging their commitment to reducing their carbon footprint. This year’s ’road book,’ the manual given to all those working on the race, states that the Tour is “resolutely committed to being an increasingly eco-responsible organisation.”
In 2020, during the pandemic Tour, the race was criticised by recently elected “green” mayors in some of France’s major cities. The mayor of Lyon, Gregory Doucet, described the Tour as “macho and polluting” and lacking an environmental conscience, and there have been multiple calls for the race to further reduce its carbon footprint.
The final outcome of the race itself was put into doubt when race leader Tadej Pogacar’s UAE Emirates team was hit by two Covid-19 positive tests, just 48 hours after all riders in the peloton were tested and declared free of the virus.
George Bennett, one of the defending champion’s key mountain support riders, and teammate Rafal Majka, both tested positive on Tuesday morning in Morzine. Bennett withdrew from the race while Majka was allowed to continue racing on the grounds that he was asymptomatic. On Saturday, another of Pogacar’s team, Vegard Stake Laengen, also tested positive and withdrew. The eight-man team that Pogacar started with in Copenhagen is now reduced to six, with Majka’s continuation uncertain.
“As per our internal protocols, Majka was tested for Covid-19 and returned a positive result this morning,” the UAE Emirates team said in a statement. “He is asymptomatic and analysing his PCR, [we] found he had a very low risk of infectiousness, similar to the case of Bob Jungels (the AG2R Citroen rider who tested positive in Copenhagen) earlier in the race.”
The Australian rider Luke Durbridge (Team BikeExchange) also tested positive and was withdrawn from the race. ASO moved to restrict media access to the team buses, or the paddock, saying that “only representatives of the UCI (jury, commissaires, anti-doping), the teams’ staff and the organisation’s personnel supervising the teams will have access to the paddock.” Access to the finish lines, for the media, remains unchanged.
Magnus Cort Nielsen (EF Education-EasyPost) won the stage in a photo finish from Nicholas Schultz, a teammate to the absent Durbridge. Lennard Kamna, of Bora Hansgrohe, one of the day’s breakaways, moved to within 11 seconds of race leader Pogacar but is expected to drop back in the next 48 hours, which includes summit finishes at Alpe d’Huez and the Col du Granon.
Media measuring company Nielsen to be acquired in $16B deal
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Nielsen is being acquired for $16 billion, including debt, about a week after the media measurement company rejected a smaller offer earlier this month.
Viewing data collected by Nielsen plays a big role in determining where billions in advertising dollars are spent each year. The company itself has annual global revenue of about $3.5 billion.
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A group of private equity investors led by Evergreen Coast Capital Corp., an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management L.P., and Brookfield Business Partners L.P. along with institutional partners will pay $28 for each outstanding Nielsen share.
Brookfield Business Partners will invest approximately $2.65 billion via preferred equity, convertible into 45% of Nielsen’s common equity. The equity version of the deal is worth just over $10 billion in cash, with the remainder in debt held by Nielsen.
Brookfield said Tuesday that it anticipates investing approximately $600 million, with the remaining balance funded from institutional partners.
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Nielsen Holdings Plc, based in New York City, turned down the group’s previous offer, saying it had significantly undervalued the business. That offer was worth $25.40 per share, or about $9 billion before the assumption of debt. After it accepted the revised over, shares of Nielsen jumped 22% at the opening bell. The stock ended regular trading up 20.3% at $26.72 per share.
Nielsen has come under criticism for failing to create new methods of capturing the amount of time people spend watching streaming services, such as Netflix or Hulu. It has become a much more complex task as people now load content on to phones, tablets and other smart devices.
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Nielsen is attempting to address those complaints and is expected to launch a new cross-media measurement tool by the end of the year. Nielsen One, according to the company, can deliver more comparable and comprehensive metrics across platforms ranging from traditional televisions to a host of other digital and streaming services.
The board at Nielsen has voted unanimously in support the revised offer, and the company will go private if the transaction closes.
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However, there is a 45 day go-shop period during which Nielsen can look at and accept other offers, but breaking the agreement with the private equity group comes with a $102 million termination fee.
The deal is expected to close in the second half of this year. It still needs approval from Nielsen shareholders and regulators.
GameStop, Uber, Nielsen Holdings and more
A screen displays the logo and trading information for GameStop on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) March 29, 2022.
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Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.
GameStop — Shares of the video game retailer dropped 6% on huge trading volume. More than 8 million shares traded through 10:50 a.m. ET, already doubling its 30-day average full-day volume of 4.6 million. There were some large block trades of GameStop in early trading on the NYSE.
Nielsen Holdings – Shares spiked about 20% following news that a group of private equity investors led by Brookfield Business Partners will acquire the ratings company for $16 billion. The company had previously rejected a $9 billion offer from the same group.
NortonLifeLock — Shares for the cybersecurity company dropped 4.5% in midday trading. On Tuesday, Morgan Stanley downgraded NortonLifeLock’s stock to equal-weight, saying the firm sees “limited catalysts” for the cybersecurity company. A regulatory probe in the United Kingdom into NortonLifeLock’s $8.6 billion deal with Avast and higher inflation costs is weighing on the stock.
FedEx – FedEx shares gained 4.2% on news that CEO Fred Smith will step down on June 1. Smith, who founded the package and delivery company more than 50 years ago, will serve as executive chairman. President and Chief Operating Officer Raj Subramaniam will replace him as CEO.
Uber — Shares rose 6% as the ride-hailing company is close to a deal to include San Francisco taxis to its app, The New York Times reported. The report comes after Uber last week announced an agreement to offer New York City taxi rides on its platform.
Dave & Buster’s — Shares of the arcade company soared 10% despite missing on the top and bottom lines of its quarterly results. Dave & Buster’s said that business “strengthened” in the first eight weeks of the first quarter with same-store sales up 5.4% over the same period in 2019.
Reynolds Consumer Products — Shares of the maker of consumer products fell nearly 3% in midday trading after Goldman Sachs double downgraded the stock to sell from buy. The Wall Street firm said consensus estimates are too high for Reynolds.
Stellantis — Shares of the automaker rose 7% in midday trading despite news that it is laying off an undisclosed number of workers at its Illinois Jeep plant in an effort to “operate the plant in a more sustainable manner.”
Jefferies — Shares of Jefferies popped more than 7% in midday trading after reporting better than expected quarterly profit and revenue. Jefferies earned $1.23 per share, well above the 89 cent consensus estimate, according to Refinitiv.
UnitedHealth Group — Health care giant UnitedHealth Group announced a deal to buy LHC Group for $170 per share. LHC Group rose 1% in midday trading while UnitedHealth Group was about flat.
— with reporting from CNBC’s Samantha Subin, Sarah Min, Hannah Miao, Tanaya Macheel and Yun Li.