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The Nielsen Streaming Charts For The Acolyte - Week 3
Well, that escalated rather quickly… while The Acolyte remained in the top 10 Luminate Original Series charts until week 4 and episode 5 and only dropped out when episode 6 was released in week 5, The Acolyte has already dropped out of the top 10 Nielsen original series charts in week 3 with episode 4! The #10 show has 298 million minutes on the Nielsen charts. The Acolyte must have less than that. According to Luminate The Acolyte had 262 million minutes in week 3 (episode 4). Click through for a short commentary.
The Acolyte is as dead as this wookiee
The #1 show on Nielsen is of course Bridgerton with 2,465 million minutes, about 10x as much as The Acolyte probably has. Just let that sink in. Netflix has about 82.7 million subscribers in the US/Canada. Disney+ about 45 million. If we account for the larger subscriber base Bridgerton still has 5.5 times as many viewing minutes, relatively speaking, when compared against the subscriber base.
Even delusional people on X clamoring for a second season are now transported back into the real world. The Acolyte is a massive flop for Disney. It is the least watched Star Wars series ever… with even lower viewership than Andor.
Andor had 356 million minutes in week 3 (episode 5) and that was the season low even, so the worst Andor ever performed, that week the middle part of the Aldani heist arc was aired. If we use Luminate’s numbers we get the following if we assume all people only watched the new episode that week:
Andor: 356 million minutes – 8.28 million views
The Acolyte: 262 million minutes – 8.18 million views
It’s close, but worse than Andor which already had a very low viewership to begin with. In the week before Andor also had more viewers than The Acolyte. In the following week Luminate would report only 232.4 million minutes for The Acolyte, even less. The show kept shedding viewers.
If we use week 4 numbers from Luminate and Nielsen it would be like this:
Andor (Nielsen): 405 million minutes – 8.1 million views
The Acolyte (Luminate): 232.4 million minutes – 7.26 million views
In short: in week 4 The Acolyte lost almost 1 million views and is lagging Andor by almost 1 million views. And the gap will only widen, because Andor mantained this 8-9 million average and never really lost viewers, in fact, the season finale would see an increase even (it performed better than Ahsoka!), episode 7 had 418 million minutes viewed and The Acolyte dropped out of the Luminate charts in week 5 and must have had less than 220 million minutes (Luminate’s #10 original show). So maybe even less than 200 million minutes viewed.
That Star Wars is now not even popular enough anymore to crack the Nielsen original series top 10, or the general top 10, is just embarrassing. Andor dropped out of the charts exactly once but recovered (it had about 400 million minutes that week). The Acolyte may never enter the charts again. And just to remind everyone: Lucasfilm spent 180 million plus marketing on this. So probably in excess of 200 million.
And to add insult to injury House of the Dragon, which is also released on cable, so not even exclusive to streaming, has 1,226 million minutes on the Nielsen streaming charts for aquired shows. Let that sink in too. House of the Dragon, which cost about the same as The Acolyte, has 5.3 times the viewing minutes. Even if we account for the much longer episodes, 58 minutes, House of the Dragon has 21.14 million views in the US. Compare that to The Acolyte’s 7.26. House of the Dragon, which also has several female lead characters, one of the actresses is also LGBT like Amandla Stenberg… and not only does House of the Dragon not get review bombed, it’s a huge hit. Despite there being a massive overlap between fanbases.
Star Wars is not even in the same league anymore as other genre shows now, Star Wars is minor league, or maybe not even that, little league.
But this is what happens when you hire someone to write a Star Wars show who hates Jedi and wants to portray them in as bad a light as possible and instead wants people to sympathize with psychopathic murderers.
Why does Kathleen Kennedy still have a job? She’s about to bury Star Wars now too. Under her Star Wars went from major league to minor league. After the short high The Mandalorian gave us it’s been downhill ever since. But the downhill trend may not be over yet, maybe Star Wars will only hit rock bottom with the Rey movie. If Iger has any sense left in him he will veto the project before it can enter production. Word now is it will no longer film in 2024. But 2025, if they have a script by then. How about “never” instead?
Also, as sad as it is, Skeleton Crew may pay the price for all this just like Solo was also affected by The Last Jedi backlash. Skeleton Crew could turn out to be a complete flop with even lower numbers than The Acolyte. Once you lose the trust of your audience it is very difficult to regain it. But Lucasfilm was on the right track with The Mandalorian… and then Kennedy derailed the train nevertheless. And here we are now. Star Wars is not even good enough anymore for a top 10 original series streaming charts. A service with 45+ million subscribers in the US has not a SINGLE original show on the charts. Netflix has seven. And a spin off of an unfinished book series and of a show that had a super controversial last season is wiping the floor with Star Wars.
Seriously, why does have Kathleen Kennedy still have a job?
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