Daily Blast: The Flash, Lucifer, Loki and Black Widow Rank in Streaming Ratings and Other Stories

The Flash, Lucifer, Loki and Black Widow Rank in Streaming Ratings

The Nielsen ratings service has released the latest streaming numbers for the week of July 26 to August 1. Comic-based fare showed up in the lower ranks of the various lists.

The Flash, which has all seven seasons available on Netflix, is the best performer here. It gathered 519 million minutes of viewership across its 151 episodes which made it the #7 series on the Acquired Programming chart.

Continuous ratings champ Lucifer performed well again, with 202 million minutes of viewership against 83 episodes. That's a decrease of 27% from the previous window. However, it was enough to increase the Netflix show's rank on the Original Programming chart up one notch to #7.

Marvel Studios' Loki continues its slow fade out, pulling only 180 million minutes of viewing of its 6-episode library. That's a loss of over 53% of its audience. The Disney+ show dropped five spots from #4 to #9 on the Originals chart.

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Finally, Marvel Studios' Black Widow returns to the streaming Movies chart. While it's still in PVOD mode on Disney+, it enjoyed 151 million minutes of viewership, bringing it back on to Movies list at #10.

Charlize Theron, Kiki Layne in The Old Guard Charlize Theron, Kiki Layne in The Old Guard
The Old Guard 2 Gets New Director

Deadline reports that Victoria Mahoney is taking over the directing reigns for the Netflix sequel The Old Guard 2. She's stepping in for Gina Prince-Bythewood who apparently had a flood of offers after the success of the first film. The core cast of Charlize Theron, Kiki Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinelli, Veronica Ngo and Chiwetel Ejiofor are all returning. The comic's creator Greg Rucka is writing the script for the sequel.

The Flash Season 8 Casts Despero

Actor Tony Curran (The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen) is joining the season eight cast of The Flash as a major villain. Deadline reports that he'll be playing extra-terrestrial conqueror Despero. The article doesn't make clear if he is the "powerful alien threat," that's at the center of the Armageddon storyline that was announced yesterday, but that seems like a good bet. The new season begins on The CW November 16.

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