New Marvel One Shots Available on Disney+ Today
The most oft-overlooked episodes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe are probably the Marvel One Shots. These short films were intertwined with the events of the movies, and released as extras on the Blu-Ray disc release of various films. Disney+ has tweeted out the announcement that five more of them have been added to the service as of today. Technically, two of them are actually part of the One-Shots series and the other three were part of the viral campaign for Thor: Ragnarok.
At any rate, as of today you can see Team Thor Part 1, Team Thor Part 2, Team Darryl, The Consultant and Agent Carter.
They join A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer, Item 47 and All Hail the King, which were already available.
Lucifer Tops 2021 Streaming Ratings Chart
Anyone who reads our weekly recap of the Nielsen ratings service's streaming ratings will not be surprised to learn that Lucifer was a winner in 2021.
The series, which debuted two blocks of new episodes on Netflix last year, has been on and off Nielsen's Original Programming chart for as long as we've been covering it. When new episodes dropped it would claim the #1 spot. Even on weeks that didn't carry new episodes, it would reappear in the top 10.
Now, Nielsen has published year-end stats for 2021 and Lucifer is the #1 title on the Original programming chart for the year. The series' 93 episodes across six seasons garnered 18.3 billion minutes of viewership. By our accounting, the show ranked in the top ten 27 out of 52 weeks last year. The next best Original was Squid Game, with 16.4 billion (impressive considering only 9 episodes were available).
Another comic-based show claiming victory in 2021 is WandaVision. The Disney Plus series from Marvel Studios attracted over 7.2 billion minutes of viewership against its nine episodes. That was enough to make it #14 on the Original Programming chart.
Marvel Studios also found some streaming success on the Movies Chart. Black Widow ranks #11 on that chart with 4.4 billion minutes of viewership on Disney+. And benefitting from the WandaVision bump is 2019's Avengers: Endgame. The mega-movie scored over 3.6 million minutes of viewers, making it #15 on the Movies chart.
Finally, The Walking Dead animated Netflix's ratings score. The series, which has 153 episodes on the streamer, attracted 10.3 billion minutes of viewership. That made it the #15 prospect on the Acquired Programming chart for 2021.
