Prison Break Hits Nielsen Streaming Chart With Netflix Debut — Overall, Originals Wane Opposite Olympics
Michael and Lincoln done stole themselves a spot on Nielsen’s latest weekly streaming ranking.
For the week of July 29, with Prison Break‘s release to Netflix (while continuing to stream on Hulu), the Fox thriller racked up 760 million minutes viewed across its 90-episode library, good enough to place No. 5 on Nielsen’s overall Top 10.
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House of the Dragon topped this week’s overall chart with 1.3 billion minutes viewed on Max, followed by Bluey, Grey’s Anatomy and Family Guy.
All told, Nielsen notes that — with the Paris Games kicking off July 27 — streaming levels “decreased significantly in the face of an onslaught of Olympic programming,” with zero original programs cracking the overall Top 10 for the first time since its weekly charts debuted in early 2020. (House of the Dragon is considered an HBO show, not a Max original.)
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Meanwhile on Nielsen’s U.S. ranking of streaming originals, Prime Video’s The Boys reclaimed the No. 1 spot from Cobra Kai, with 662 million minutes viewed across 32 episodes. Love Island came in second with 576 million minutes viewed (on Hulu, Netflix and Peacock), followed by Netflix’s A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (553 million minutes), Netflix’s Cobra Kai (539 million minutes) and Netflix’s Unsolved Mysteries 2020 (423 million minutes).
Rounding out the Top 10 originals for the week of July 29 were Evil (streaming on Paramount+ and Netflix), Hulu’s Futurama, Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, Paramount+’s Mayor of Kingstown and Hulu’s The Bear.
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