Nielsen Streaming Top 10: ‘Ted Lasso’ Crosses 1 Billion Viewing Minutes With Finale as ‘FUBAR’ Continues to Lead Overall Titles

Its a bittersweet goodbye for Ted Lasso. During the May 29-June 4 viewing window, the series jumped 62% in viewership from the previous week on the Nielsen Streaming Top 10 chart, pushing it to No. 3 on the list of overall titles with 1.2 billion minutes.

According to Nielsen, the Apple TV+ title first appeared on its Streaming Top 10 list rankers midway through Season 2 in 2021. In total, it has made the overall list 11 times, and the originals list 19 times. Throughout the weekly episodic releases of Season 3, which premiered March 15, Ted has made the overall list in 9 of the 12 weeks, and has landed itself on the originals list in all 12 weeks.

The finale episode, which was released on May 31, 2023, received 529 million viewing minutes by itself this week, marking the highest weekly total for a single episode of Ted Lasso ever. Since the show was released in August of 2020, Ted Lasso has generated almost 25 billion viewing minutes in total.

Elsewhere on the list of overall titles, FUBAR continues to lead for the second consecutive week with 1.7 billion viewing minutes thats a 12% jump from its debut on the chart. It fell just above S.W.A.T, which landed in second place with 1.4 billion viewing minutes across Hulu, Netflix and Paramount+. Thats a steady hold for the series after its jump from no. 8 following its shocking cancellation and quick reversal at CBS. The series is currently set for a seventh and final season on the network.

All American slid into fourth place on the overall titles chart with 922 million minutes viewed after Season 5 joined the streaming service. On the list of acquired titles, the show landed at No. 2, behind SWAT.

Manifest flew to sixth place on the overall chart following the release of the shows final episodes, which arrived on Netflix on June 2. The show garnered 749 million minutes viewed within its first three days of viewing.

According to Nielsen, Manifest, Succession and Ted Lasso notably all have very similar audience compositions despite appearing on different platforms with about a third of the audiences falling into the 35-49 year old category, and two-thirds of the audiences being female.

Also, the Succession finale on Max saw carryover viewing from the last interval increased its viewing total by 12% to 607 million viewing minutes and finished at No. 9 on the overall chart. Max released the show on Sunday evenings and Nielsens weekly reporting interval is Monday Sunday, meaning Succession had the advantage of typically having two episodes counted during an interval.

On the originals chart, Amazon had two titles that made the list: Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets (380 million viewing minutes, No. 7) and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (449 million, No. 5). Its also worth mentioning that Air continued to remain among the list of film titles at No. 9 with 246 million viewing minutes.

Elsewhere on the chart is NCIS (755 million minutes), Heartland (747 million minutes), Bluey (716 million minutes) and Cocomelon (604 million minutes).

See Nielsens list of overall streaming rankings for May 29-June 4 first, followed by original streaming titles, acquired titles and then films.