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- Legal drama Suits took the top spot as the most streamed title ever from another audience favourite, The Office, in 2023.
- Shows on Netflix dominated overall streaming charts, according to Nielsen data.
- The spin-off series for the popular legal drama Suits: LA also got a pilot order at NBCUniversal.
Legal drama Suits took the top spot as the most streamed title ever from another audience favourite, The Office, in 2023, while shows on Netflix dominated overall streaming charts, according to Nielsen data.
Suits racked up 57.7 billion viewing minutes in 2023, thanks to its availability on both Netflix and Comcast-owned Peacock. The Office had generated 57.1 billion viewing minutes in 2020 amid pandemic-induced lockdowns, according to the report.
Some of the other widely streamed shows last year were Bluey, NCIS, Grey's Anatomy and The Big Bang Theory.
The spin-off series for the popular legal drama Suits: LA also got a pilot order at NBCUniversal, according to Variety.
The series will focus on the character Ted Black, who works as a lawyer in Los Angeles.
A logline for the series reads:
"His firm is at a crisis point, and in order to survive, he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career. Ted is surrounded by a stellar group of characters who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other while they can't help but mix their personal and professional lives. All of this is going on while events from years ago slowly unravel that led Ted to leave behind everything and everyone he loved."
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Overall, Americans streamed 21 million years' worth of video in 2023, a 21% jump from a year earlier, as streaming firms continued to pour billions of dollars into new and licensed content to keep audiences hooked to their platforms.
Shows on Peacock, Disney+, Paramount+ and Warner Bros Discovery's Max were also among those that were widely watched.
Last year was particularly challenging for the U.S. entertainment industry, as strikes from writers and actors stalled production for months.
Despite the strikes, a handful of originals still managed to make it to the market, with Ted Lasso on Apple TV+ leading the charts in the original category and Netflix's Night Agent coming in a close second.
In the movie category, seven out of 10 were animated features that topped streaming charts, with Disney's Moana and Encanto leading the way.
