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Yahoo
2 days ago
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Streaming Ratings: ‘Andor' Concludes With No. 1 Overall Ranking
The conclusion of Andor propelled the Star Wars series to another high mark — including the No. 1 overall ranking — on Nielsen's streaming charts. Andor collected 931 million minutes of viewing for the week of May 12-18; its final three episodes debuted on May 13. It grew by 101 million minutes week to week and set a series high in viewing time for the fourth consecutive time — one for every week Disney+ released episodes of season two. (Disney+ had the top two titles for the week, as Bluey came in just behind Andor with 922 million viewing minutes.) More from The Hollywood Reporter TV Ratings: NBA Finals Fall, Tony Awards Surge TV Ratings: All 112 Shows That Averaged 5 Million or More Viewers in 2024-25 Streaming Ratings: 'Poker Face' Rejoins Top 10 Originals With Season 2 Debut Also of note: Rogue One, the Star Wars movie that takes place directly after the events of Andor, made the streaming movie chart for the week as well. It tied for ninth place in those rankings with 179 million viewing minutes. The previous week's overall leader, Netflix's comedy The Four Seasons, dropped out of the overall top 10 but remained in the original series rankings with 549 million minutes. The top premiere for May 12-18 was Hulu's unscripted show The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which was third among original shows and ninth overall with 680 million minutes of watch time. You (779 million minutes) also held up pretty well in its fourth week after the final season debuted on Netflix, and Peacock's Poker Face (492 million) was about even with its premiere week total of 497 million minutes. On the movies chart, Netflix's comedy Nonnas came in first for the second straight week with 848 million viewing minutes — up about 11 percent from its premiere frame. Nielsen's streaming ratings cover viewing on TV sets only and don't include minutes watched on computers or mobile devices. The ratings only measure U.S. audiences, not those in other countries. The top streaming titles for May 12-18, 2025, are below. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise
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3 days ago
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Nicholas Hoult and David Corenswet on Both Auditioning to Play Superman
It's the Superman x Star Wars crossover we never knew we needed. Well, sort of. Andor star Diego Luna was the guest host on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and he had two very special guests, Superman's David Corenswet and Nicholas Hoult. During the interview, the trio bonded over the fact that they all started out as child actors, among other things. But things got interesting when Hoult revealed he originally auditioned to play the Man of Steel himself. But when he saw Corenswet at the same audition, he knew that guy was simply born to play Kal-El. (Just look at him, we would have thought the same thing!) You can watch the full Jimmy Kimmel Live! Interview below: Nicholas Hoult shouldn't have worried, of course. He clearly impressed director James Gunn enough that he got the role of the villainous Lex Luthor. And as Diego Luna joked, maybe he brought some of that resentment about not being Superman to the part. After all, not being able to be Superman is a key component of Lex's character, both in comics and film. As for Corenswet, he mentioned that he still hasn't seen the movie, despite being the titular star. He wants to preserve watching Superman at the premiere, so he can experience it for the first time with an audience. We actually can't blame him there. Corenswet is an enormous Star Wars fan, as you can see in the video above. so we're a bit surprised he didn't talk to Diego Luna about the greatness of Andor. If Superman becomes the hit we think it will be, we have a strong suspicion there will be a lightsaber at some point in David Corenswet's future. At the very least, let the man pilot an X-Wing! Superman arrives in theaters on July 11.
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5 days ago
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Watch: Alan Tudyk wears stilts to talk with 'Kimmel' guest host Diego Luna
June 25 (UPI) -- Alan Tudyk joined guest host Diego Luna on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to discuss his struggles with wearing stilts during the filming of their movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and the prequel series Andor. Tudyk came out wearing the stilts he used to portray reprogrammed Imperial security droid K-2SO alongside Luna's Cassian Andor. "I am very comfortable in stilts," Tudyk said. Luna asked the actor if he had any trouble acting while wearing the stilts. "You know what the hardest thing was? You know the bathrooms? They would have those trailers -- so, getting up the stairs, which were very narrow, and then when I walked in, I could see over all of the stalls. Just going by. So I was just going, 'Hey, Roy. Hey.' Everybody's on their phone, it was weird," Tudyk recalled. "And then when I was at the urinal, next to somebody else, it was -- that was a long stream. That was a long way down, buddy," he said. Luna pointed out that Tudyk has played multiple robots in his career. "Some people bring humanity to their roles, I bring a sort of mechanized detachment," Tudyk joked. "A cold, calculating, sterile quality. I was the robot in I, Robot. I was Sonny. And then I'm the robot in Superman that's coming out. There's been a few." Luna suggested Tudyk is a kind of "royalty." "I am robot royalty," Tudyk agreed. "When the robots take over, I may either be their chosen one, or the first one they kill, I don't know." Andor concluded in May after two seasons on Disney+. Adria Arjona, who starred with Luna and Tudyk on the show, recalled her audition for the series Monday on Kimmel.
NZ Herald
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
The best TV shows of 2025, so far
A prequel series to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) – and arguably the most acclaimed Star Wars story of any kind since that film – Andor offered one of TV's deepest explorations of the political realities and human costs of rebellion. Its two-season run wrapped up in May. 'Prequels are often where dramatic tension goes to die,' James Poniewozik writes. 'How invested can you be in a story whose outcome you already know? The genius of Andor, created by Tony Gilroy, is to make that knowledge an asset.' Asura Machiko Ono in Asura. Photo / Netflix Written and directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters), this Japanese period drama is visually sumptuous and emotionally meticulous in its depiction of four sisters grappling with controlling men and their complex relationships with one another. The series 'is the full package: a detailed, human-scale domestic drama with plenty to say, fascinating characters to say it and the stylishness to make it sing,' Margaret Lyons writes. 'The downside is that other shows feel paltry and thin in comparison. The upside is everything else.' Common Side Effects Common Side Effects tells a gripping story with fanciful, occasionally phantasmagoric animation. This animated conspiracy thriller revolves around a magic mushroom miracle drug, an unconventional environmentalist who wants to heal the world with it and the various bad actors – Big Pharma, sinister mycologists – trying to stop or control him. And a tortoise. The series 'is as rare and precious as the miraculous mushroom its hero, Marshall (Dave King), discovers in the jungle,' Lyons writes. 'Smarts, humour, style and perspective rarely align so harmoniously. Not a lot of shows have as much to say, and fewer still say it with such panache.' Couples Therapy Dr Orna Guralnik in Couples Therapy. In May, the documentary series Couples Therapy, which follows Dr Orna Guralnik's sessions with couples in various forms of crises, wrapped up its fourth season. 'Some pairs seem so ill-suited one wonders how they got this far in the first place, while others seem tragically root bound, unable to change any of the patterns in their lives — until now, of course,' Lyons writes. 'The magic of the show is that through Dr. Guralnik's patience and probing, people change before our eyes. Revealing oneself is difficult; understanding oneself is even more challenging. 'This season's four couples were pulled in different directions — toward the altar, toward divorce, toward quiet, toward disclosure — but each relationship was transformed. Most shows go to great lengths to gin up this amount of conflict and revelation, but Couples Therapy manages it with a few well-placed 'hmm's.' Exterior Night Fabrizio Gifuni plays the Italian politician Aldo Moro in Exterior Night. The first television series by great Italian film-maker Marco Bellocchio, Exterior Night, revisits the 1978 kidnapping and killing of politician Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades. (Bellocchio explored those events previously in his 2003 film Good Morning, Night.) 'Moro's abduction and death was a watershed moment in the 'years of lead,' when politically motivated bombings, shootings, kidnappings and assassinations convulsed Italy and other European countries,' Mike Hale writes. 'But it is a story that can speak to anyone who has a sense of living in perilous times. As a character in Exterior Night says, a society can tolerate a certain amount of crazy behaviour, but 'when the crazy party has the majority, we'll see what happens.'' Mr. Loverman Ariyon Bakare, left, and Lennie James in Mr. Loverman. Based on the novel by Bernardine Evaristo, this British miniseries follows an elegant Londoner named Barrington Jedidiah Walker (Lennie James) who is devoted to his wife, his children and his best friend and lover of many decades, Morris (Ariyon Bakare). The series alternates among characters' perspectives and uses flashbacks to trace Barry and Morris' relationship back to its early days in their native Antigua. 'Loverman is polished and literary, practically silky – sublime, even,' Lyons writes. 'It's natural to be baffled by other people's choices: Why would you do that? Why didn't you say anything? Why would you stay? Why would you leave? A lot of contemporary shows – even plenty of good ones – fall back on pat just-so stories for their characters' backgrounds, but the picture here is deeper and fuller than that. Fear and pain, love and loyalty: they're never just one thing.' Murderbot Alexander Skarsgard stars as the title character of Murderbot. In this comic sci-fi thriller, based on the novel All Systems Red by Martha Wells, Alexander Skarsgard plays a jaded robot that is charged with protecting a crunchy space commune but would rather just watch pulpy soaps. 'The real killer app of the story, adapted by Chris and Paul Weitz, is the snarky worldview of the artificial life form at its centre,' Poniewozik writes. 'Skarsgard gives a lively reading to the copious voice-over, but just as important is his physical performance, which radiates casual power and agitated wariness. Murderbot is odd, edgy, unmistakably alien, yet its complaint is also crankily familiar. It just wants to be left in peace to binge its programs, like Chance the Gardener if he had guns in his arms.' Pee-wee as Himself Pee-wee as Himself explores the life and work of Paul Reubens. This two-part HBO documentary details how performer Paul Reubens created his beloved alter ego, Pee-wee Herman, and how the character's fame affected the rest of his life. 'What unfolds, over more than three hours, is in part a public story: how Reubens channeled his genius into an anarchic creation that bridged the worlds of alternative art and children's TV, then had his life derailed by trumped-up scandals that haunted him to the end,' Poniewozik writes. 'It is also partly a spellbinding private story about artistry, ambition, identity and control. What does it mean to become famous as someone else? (The documentary's title refers to the acting credit in Pee-wee's Big Adventure, as a result of which Reubens remained largely unknown even as his persona became a worldwide star.) And what were the implications of being obscured by his creation, especially for a gay man in a still very homophobic Hollywood?' The Pitt Noah Wyle in The Pitt. With its '24'-like hour-by-hour structure, The Pitt infuses the familiar pleasures of a medical show with fevered intensity and narrative references to the pandemic and contemporary social issues. 'The Pitt generated old-school melodrama out of a simple understanding: The ER is where people end up when something goes wrong, either with the body individual or with the body politic,' Poniewozik writes. 'And what is wrong with the American corpus? Buddy, take a number; the waiting room is full.' Severance Britt Lower and Adam Scott in Severance. Photo / Apple TV+ In its second season, this trippy workplace drama deepens its mysteries and expands its emotional palette as the mentally 'severed' employees, their loved ones and their bosses battle (sometimes literally) over competing agendas and the future of Lumon Industries. The show finally returned in January, nearly three years after the end of Season 1. 'Its makers seem to have used every second of the absence productively,' Poniewozik writes. 'The season takes new turns while remaining the most ambitious, batty and all-out pleasurable show on TV, an M.C. Escher maze whose plot convolutions never get in the way of its voice, heart and sense of humour.' This article originally appeared in The New York Times. Written by: The New York Times ©2025 THE NEW YORK TIMES
Gizmodo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
Gareth Edwards Is Glad You Liked ‘Rogue One,' Just Don't Ask Him to Make Another ‘Star Wars'
Gareth Edwards, who directed Godzilla (2014), The Creator, and the brand-new Jurassic World Rebirth, is always going to be asked about his time in the galaxy far, far away. That's just the nature of Star Wars and, more specifically, Star Wars fans, most of whom look very fondly upon 2016's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story—especially in the wake of Andor's two-season run on Disney+. Edwards is thrilled for all the goodwill, but that doesn't mean he's hoping for a return to that world. 'I'm very happy to move on and do my thing,' Edwards told Business Insider. Part of that urge on the director's part could be down to Rogue One's behind-the-scenes issues, which famously saw Tony Gilroy called in to help with reshoots. Gilroy, of course, went on to expand the film's backstory by creating the highly acclaimed Disney+ series Andor. But not only is Edwards happy to move on, he's also happy that Rogue One remains a popular favorite among Star Wars' notoriously prickly fan base. 'I'm very grateful that people say nice things,' he said of Rogue One's reputation. He also prefers to take the long view with all of his projects. 'What you have to keep in your pocket as you go through making other films is that it's not about how people feel the day it gets released, it's how people feel about it 10, 20 years from now,' he said. 'As the movie comes out, you go, 'I'm going to pretend I'm living 10 years from now, and it doesn't matter what people say in the moment.' It's the kid who comes up to you 20 years from now and goes, 'Oh my god, I loved that movie!' I think that's the reward.' Just don't ask him to make another Star Wars movie—his 'thing' is dinosaurs for now. Jurassic World Rebirth is out July 2. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
