'Star Trek: Picard' in the top 10 of original streaming programs

[Citiprime]

For the last measured week of the Nielsen rankings (March 6-12), the series was in the top 10 of original streaming programming.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Paramount+’s Star Trek: Picard made its first ever appearance in the rankings, finishing ninth among original series with 310 million minutes of viewing as it reached the midpoint of its third season. Picard is the second Paramount+ original series to make the rankings, following 1923 two weeks earlier. (NCIS, which streams on both Paramount+ and Netflix, led the acquired series chart.)​

I'm gonna guess that something like this might be a great factor in getting Terry Matalas his Star Trek: Legacy series, as well as influencing the direction that Paramount takes with Star Trek going forward.

From TrekMovie.com:

This is a Star Trek first for Nielsen which started charting streaming content in 2021. As noted above, this chart covers mid-March, around the release of the fourth episode of Picard season 3. Nielsen’s streaming charts take around a month to be released. This indicates that the Picard audience is growing during season 3 and so the show could start showing up more in the coming weeks.​

 

[MrShinzoff]

I'd definitely watch anything Terry Matalas does with Star Trek. If it was up to me, I'd ask him to write the next show set on the Enterprise. A 25th century successor to Kirk's 23rd century and Picard's 24th. I really like the Legacy idea as well though.

 

[Supervisor 194]

I like the idea of seeing a new Enterprise crew in the 25th century, boldly going where no one has gone before. Maybe with limited nods to the 23rd and 24th centuries until the new crew is established and fleshed out a bit.

 

[fireproof78]

New crew.

No Enterprise.

Boldly go.

Thank you.

 

[Campe]

Let's involve some strange new worlds in that boldly going.

For the last measured week of the Nielsen rankings (March 6-12), the series was in the top 10 of original streaming programming.

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I'm gonna guess that something like this might be a great factor in getting Terry Matalas his Star Trek: Legacy series, as well as influencing the direction that Paramount takes with Star Trek going forward.

Let's be fair though. One caveat is that only recently have Paramount started submitting their numbers to Nielsen. I'm not saying that its not a reason to celebrate. Its great news. But the execs at P+ have a lot more information on streaming numbers than we see here.

 

[Cox of Seagulls]

Not possible, some very stable and sane people on the Internet told me it was a flop.

 

[donners22]

One caveat is that only recently have Paramount started submitting their numbers to Nielsen.

Their subscriber numbers also almost doubled over the last year.

I'm gonna guess that something like this might be a great factor in getting Terry Matalas his Star Trek: Legacy series, as well as influencing the direction that Paramount takes with Star Trek going forward.

It'd be interesting to see how fast people turn on it. Plenty of the reviews openly acknowledge that nostalgia is papering over the problems in the writing. They can't go back to the well for another full TNG reunion and the other series are not nearly as popular.

 

[Campe]

Their subscriber numbers also almost doubled over the last year.

Were they including the Showtime subscribers? I know that they’ve recently combined the services offering ST as a premium tier. But they also used to combine the numbers between P+ and ST when they were standaones. Don’t know if that was taken into consideration but I presume so.

 

[Noname Given]

For the last measured week of the Nielsen rankings (March 6-12), the series was in the top 10 of original streaming programming.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Paramount+’s Star Trek: Picard made its first ever appearance in the rankings, finishing ninth among original series with 310 million minutes of viewing as it reached the midpoint of its third season. Picard is the second Paramount+ original series to make the rankings, following 1923 two weeks earlier. (NCIS, which streams on both Paramount+ and Netflix, led the acquired series chart.)​

I'm gonna guess that something like this might be a great factor in getting Terry Matalas his Star Trek: Legacy series, as well as influencing the direction that Paramount takes with Star Trek going forward.

From TrekMovie.com:

This is a Star Trek first for Nielsen which started charting streaming content in 2021. As noted above, this chart covers mid-March, around the release of the fourth episode of Picard season 3. Nielsen’s streaming charts take around a month to be released. This indicates that the Picard audience is growing during season 3 and so the show could start showing up more in the coming weeks.​

I'd be curious to know if Paramount+ finally started releasing its actual internal streaming numbers to Nielson directly now (they were not doing so previously, and they aren't the only streamer that was doing that.) Nielson families who had access to various streaming services provided data to Nielson via its 'boxes' and Nielson was using their own formulas to extrapolate various streaming figures from that.)

 

[Reanok]

That's good news about Picard being in the top 10. I still hope we could get a Picard spinoff series with Terry Matalas This season has been fantastic and the story telling has been amazing. I'm so glad Gates Mcfadden and Levar Burton and the other tng actors have been in this season. Ed Speelers as Jack Crusher has done a great job with his role as Beverly and Picard's son and the mystery being unraveled about who he is is really well done.

 

[NCC-73515]

The one on the right is for Germany, where it's #1

 

[JoseNoodles]

FWIW, Matalas told ScreenRant ST: Legacy is still not happening.

 

[Weyoun 251]

310m minutes would put the number of viewers (assuming 45 mins per episode) at 6.8m viewers which if accurate -obviously adjust down for multiple watches etc - is really impressive

 

[Dee1891]

I'd definitely watch anything Terry Matalas does with Star Trek. If it was up to me, I'd ask him to write the next show set on the Enterprise. A 25th century successor to Kirk's 23rd century and Picard's 24th. I really like the Legacy idea as well though.

After seeing this third season, I wouldn't. Season 3 is not terrible, but I don't think it's great. And I find it vastly overrated.

 

[Campe]

After seeing this third season, I wouldn't. Season 3 is not terrible, but I don't think it's great. And I find it vastly overrated.

I would probably give it a chance. But I’m not exactly holding my breath on it being anything interesting for me personally after my feelings on PIC3. But if that’s what people want and that’s the way that Paramount wants to go, that’s great for all of them.

 

[TerryTrek]

So a couple interesting things here.

It's interesting that Picard S3 didn't make the Top 10 streaming charts till March.

That tells me that despite the earlier marketing push for the TNG reunion for this season, the viewership/ratings for the debut episodes started off lower.

It was positive Word of Mouth that is essentially bringing back audiences.

Makes me wonder how much of the audience was turned away by Season 1 and Season 2 of Picard.


I've never seen a show promote it's next season (Pic S3) in the middle of it's current airing Season (Pic S2) when that happened last year. That felt like a desperate move to push up declining viewership.

 

[Campe]

Link.

Everyone keeps missing the fact that Paramount+ literally joined the Nielsen chart the week before.

[The Mandalorian] followed directly behind “NCIS,” which often makes the streaming chart, though usually not in such a high position. The boost came from the fact that Nielsen has now added Paramount+ to the list of streaming services it measures, and the procedural drama’s combined viewership on both Netflix and Paramount+ took it to fourth place with 826 million minutes viewed.

Again, it’s great news to see Trek in the top 10. But let’s be fair as we analyze the little bit of data we have here.

 

[God's Starship]

Makes me wonder how much of the audience was turned away by Season 1 and Season 2 of Picard.

There's a reason why Terry extended the olive branch to the most vocal of NuTrek haters to get them access to this season. It's certainly (understandably) rubbed some people the wrong way but it made burned out fans give it a shot. And as we've seen with reactions and now the ratings, old AND new fans for the most part are enjoying it!

 

[Timofnine]

But what about the Neilson’s? We know nothing of demographics or audience appreciation either.

 

[fireproof78]

Who cares? Last season so enjoy the ride.