“The Office” was the most-watched streaming program for a record seventh time, according to Nielsen’s latest report released Thursday.
Viewers watched 1.279 billion minutes of the 2005-13 NBC comedy’s 192 episodes between Dec. 7-13, the seventh consecutive week it has surpassed the 1 billion-minute mark. “The Office” has finished second 15 times since Nielsen released its initial report Sept. 5 that covered the week of Aug. 3-9.
“The Office” left Netflix Dec. 31, moving to the NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock.
“The Mandalorian” was the week’s only other program to surpass the 1 billion-minute mark, with viewers watching 1.042 billion minutes of its 15 episodes, including the seventh episode of its second season, which became available Dec. 11.
The Disney+ “Star Wars” series was the only non-Netflix programming in the Top 10 for the sixth consecutive week. Nielsen also measures viewership for Amazon Prime Video and Hulu.
The Netflix romantic drama “Virgin River” was third for the week with 948 million minutes of its 20 episodes watched, one week after finishing first with 1.793 billion minutes watched.
There were two programs in the latest Top 10 that were not in the previous week’s.
“Manhunt: Deadly Games” was fifth for the week, with 827 million minutes watched of the 10-episode series on the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing that initially ran on the Spectrum cable service.
“Big Mouth” was ninth for the week in the first full week its 10-episode fourth season was available with viewers watching 622 million minutes of the 39 episodes of the adult animated coming-of-age comedy.
Dropping out of the Top 10 were the nine-episode Netflix biographical drama “Selena: The Series” and the film “The Christmas Chronicles 2.”
The Top 10 consisted of four original streaming series and six series that originally aired on North American broadcast or cable networks.
The Top 10 programs were “The Office”; “The Mandalorian”; “Virgin River”; “The Crown”; ` “Manhunt: Deadly Games”; “Supernatural”; “Grey’s Anatomy”; “Criminal Minds”; “Big Mouth”; and “Schitt’s Creek.”