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Ever since Paramount Plus’s “Landman” debuted in December, it has been in a battle with Netflix for the number one spot. Apart from the two weeks where it gave way to Netflix’s “Carry On,” Taylor Sheridan’s latest series “Landman” has spent four of the last seven weeks at the top of the weekly Top 10.
This week, the new hit series was displaced by Netflix’s “Back in Action” starring Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx, according to the Samba TV Weekly Wrap for January 13-19. Cameron Diaz’s comeback after nearly a decade away from the screen was an instant hit for the streamer with the spy thriller earning 3.2M US households tuning in over its debut weekend.
Down from its premiere week where it first appeared in second place on the chart, Netflix’s Western epic miniseries “American Primeval” comes in third this week. Fourth was Netflix’s French action film “Ad Vitam,” with a monumental rise from tenth as word of mouth picked up. In fifth was another Netflix smash, “Squid Game S2.” Even though all of the episodes were released the day after Christmas, the second season of “Squid Game” is celebrating its fourth week in the top 10.
Amazon Prime Video had two shows in the top 10 streaming list: “Beast Games” in the sixth spot (its third straight week in the charts) and Dick Wolf’s new police drama “On Call” coming in tenth (falling from seventh last week). Max’s show “The Pitt,” an emergency room drama starring Noah Wylie, came in seventh. Lastly, the second installment of dystopian series “Silo” on Apple TV+ got the ninth spot.
Over on the linear charts this week, game shows were big winners, with a revamped “Hollywood Squares” on CBS winning the top spot. NBC got the second spot with “Saturday Night Live,” driven by Dave Chappelle’s 17-minute monologue that garnered a lot of buzz.
ABC was the big winner of the week with episodes of “Wheel of Fortune” and “Jeopardy,” along with the detective show “Will Trent,” snagging six of the top 10 spots. Episodes of “Wheel” landed in third, fourth, fifth, and tenth, “Jeopardy” took eighth, and “Will Trent” came in sixth.
NBC’s midseason part-two premiere of “Law & Order” was the seventh most-watched linear show. And CBS’s “Price is Right” got the ninth spot this week.
The Wrap Report provides an exclusive first look at the most watched movies and TV series from the past week across both streaming and linear television sourced from viewership trends collected from Samba TV’s panel of more than 3 million households, balanced to the U.S. Census.
