The arrival of the third season of “Good Girls” on Netflix made the NBC crime comedy-drama the most-watched program, according to the weekly report on streaming viewership released Thursday by Nielsen.
Viewers watched 1.077 billion minutes of the 34 episodes of “Good Girls” between Feb. 15-21, with almost two-thirds of its audience female. Just under 60% of Netflix’s overall useage is female, according to Nielsen.
The 11-episode third season of “Good Girls” began streaming on Netflix Feb. 16.
Each of the week’s top four programs initially aired on a broadcast or cable network.
“Grey’s Anatomy” was second for the week, four spots higher than the previous week, with 892 million minutes watched of the 366 available episodes. Viewership was up 1.7% from the 867 million minutes watched the previous week.
The long-running ABC medical drama was the most-streamed program by girls and women 2 years old and up, a group that accounted for nearly 80% of its viewing.
“Criminal Minds” was third, one spot higher than the previous week, with 877 million minutes watched of 303 episodes of the 2005-20 CBS police procedural crime drama, 7.5% less than the 948 million minutes watched the previous week.
The 2007-12 Nickelodeon children’s comedy “iCarly” rose one spot to fourth with 863 million minutes watched of 60 episodes, 2.3% less than the 883 million minutes watched the previous week.
The only other program in the latest Top 10 not included in the previous week was the psychological thriller “I Care a Lot,” sixth for the week with 790 million minutes watched in the first three days the film was available on Netflix.
The Canadian family drama “Heartland” and the Starz historical drama “Outlander” dropped out of the Top 10.
The 10-part Netflix drama “Firefly Lane” dropped to seventh after back-to-back first-place finishes with 780 million minutes watched, down 39.4% from the 1.288 billion minutes watched the previous week.
For the third consecutive week “WandaVision” was the lone non- Netflix program in the Top 10, rising one spot to ninth with 720 million minutes watched of its seven episodes, up 20.8% from the 596 million minutes watched the previous week. The seventh episode of the Disney+ blend of classic television and the Marvel Cinematic Universe debuted Feb. 19.
“WandaVision” was the second-most watched program among male viewers behind “Good Girls.”
Nielsen also releases viewership figures for programming streamed on Hulu and Amazon Prime Video.
The top 10 consisted of six programs that originally aired on U.S. or Canadian broadcast or cable channels, three original streaming programs and one movie.
The Top 10 programs were “Good Girls”; “Grey’s Anatomy”; “Criminal Minds”; “iCarly”; “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel”; “I Care a Lot”; “Firefly Lane”; “The Sinner”; “WandaVision”; and “Schitt’s Creek.”