Streaming Ratings: ‘Quiet on Set’ Delivers Max’s Biggest Showing Yet

The docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV posted Max’s best streaming numbers to date for its premiere week.

The show, which streamed on Max concurrent with its on-air premiere on ID, had 1.25 billion minutes of viewing for the week of March 18-24. That’s the largest weekly total for any series on Max in the nearly four years of Nielsen’s streaming rankings, edging out the 1.19 billion for The Last of Us in early 2023. (It’s worth noting that Quiet on Set debuted four episodes on March 17 and 18, whereas The Last of Us had a weekly release schedule.)

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Netflix’s 3 Body Problem grabbed the overall No. 1 spot for the week (it premiered March 21), racking up 1.37 billion minutes over its first four days. The sci-fi series narrowly beat Prime Video’s remake of Road House, which had 1.32 billion minutes of viewing in the United States. Amazon had earlier claimed that the movie was Prime Video’s biggest film premiere worldwide so far.

Bluey (1.05 billion minutes) and Netflix’s docuseries Homicide: New York (1.04 billion minutes) also made it over the billion-minute threshold for the week. The previous week’s leader, The Gentlemen, fell off by about 48 percent but still drew 971 million minutes of watch time.

Nielsen’s streaming ratings cover viewing on TV sets only and don’t include minutes watched on computers or mobile devices. The ratings only measure U.S. audiences, not those in other countries. The top streaming titles for March 18-24, 2024, are below.

Overall

1. 3 Body Problem (Netflix), 1.37 billion minutes viewed
2. Road House (2024) (Prime Video), 1.32 billion
3. Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV (Max), 1.25 billion
4. Bluey (Disney+), 1.05 billion
5. Homicide: New York (Netflix), 1.04 billion
6. The Gentlemen (Netflix), 971 million
7. Grey’s Anatomy (Hulu/Netflix), 882 million
8. NCIS (Netflix/Paramount+), 750 million
9. Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Netflix/Peacock), 697 million
10. The Big Bang Theory (Max), 695 million

Original Series

1. 3 Body Problem, 1.37 billion minutes
2. Homicide: New York, 1.04 billion
3. The Gentlemen, 971 million
4. Love Is Blind (Netflix), 617 million
5. Shogun (Hulu), 423 million
6. Apples Never Fall (Peacock), 399 million
7. Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War (Netflix), 378 million
8. Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024) (Netflix), 365 million
9. Physical: 100 Underground (Netflix), 328 million
10. Halo (Paramount+), 295 million

Acquired Series

1. Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, 1.25 billion minutes
2. Bluey, 1.05 billion
3. Grey’s Anatomy, 882 million
4. NCIS, 750 million
5. Brooklyn Nine-Nine, 697 million
6. The Big Bang Theory, 695 million
7. Criminal Minds (Hulu/Paramount+), 568 million
8. Suits (Netflix/Peacock), 548 million
9. Young Sheldon (Max/Netflix), 529 million
10. Cocomelon (Netflix), 473 million

Movies

1. Road House, 1.32 billion minutes
2. Damsel (Netflix), 561 million
3. Irish Wish (Netflix), 546 million
4. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Netflix), 362 million
5. Wonka (Max), 354 million
6. Trolls Band Together (Peacock), 310 million
6 (tie). The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) (Disney+), 310 million
8. Moana (Disney+), 266 million
9. Ricky Stanicky (Prime Video), 241 million
10. Shirley (Netflix), 225 million

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