Prison Break Leaps to Top of Nielsen Streaming Chart; Umbrella Academy Leads Originals

In its second week of release on Netflix, Prison Break more than doubled its minutes viewed to leap four spots to the No. 1 position on Nielsen’s latest overall U.S. streaming ranking.

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For the week of Aug. 5, Prison Break (which now streams on both Netflix and Hulu) racked up 1.6 billion minutes viewed across its 90-episode library, besting Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy on Nielsen’s overcall ranking. Bluey (on Disney+), Grey’s Anatomy (Netflix/Hulu) and House of the Dragon (935 million minutes viewed on Max) round out that Top 5.

Over on Nielsen’s ranking of streaming originals , The Umbrella Academy with the release of its final season dominated with nearly 1.5 billion minutes viewed across 37 episodes. It was followed by Netflix’s A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (578 million minutes viewed), Prime Video’s The Boys (457 million minutes viewed), Love Island (437 million minutes viewed across Peacock, Netflix and Hulu) and Evil (413 million minutes viewed on Netflix and Paramount+).

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Rounding out the Top 10 originals for the week of Aug. 5 were Netflix’s Gabby’s Dollhouse , Netflix’s Unsolved Mysteries (2020) , Hulu’s Futurama , Netflix’s Cobra Kai and Netflix’s Love of My Life 🤷🏻‍♂️.

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