‘Marshals’ Premiere Tops 20 Million Viewers With Streaming, DVR

The series premiere of Marshals logged more than 20 million viewers in seven days after its March 1 debut, making it the biggest show on TV that week — regardless of platform.

The Yellowstone spinoff — which earned a speedy season two renewal from CBS — brought in 20.6 million viewers over seven days in the United States, based on Nielsen’s multi-platform ratings for the week of Feb. 23-March 1. That’s more than double its initial on-air total of 9.52 million and 6 million more viewers than any other series that week. Streaming on Paramount+ likely accounted for the bulk of the 11.08 million viewers who watched Marshals after its first showing on CBS.

Network shows dominated the top 20, with only two streaming shows — Netflix’s Bridgerton and HBO Max’s The Pitt — claiming spots. That’s partly due to the below list’s methodology: It only counts shows that released new episodes during that week. It’s likely that something like The Night Agent — one of Netflix’s more popular shows — also had a big audience from Feb. 23-March 1, but since its full season debuted Feb. 19, it’s not included here.

The final week of February was also a relatively light one for new streaming releases, with the back half of Bridgerton’s fourth season and season two of Hulu’s Paradise the most notable premieres.

Bridgerton’s four new episodes drew 12.1 million viewers after seven days, good for third place on the list. The Pitt’s Feb. 26 episode brought in 8.7 million viewers for HBO Max.

CBS’ Tracker came in second for the week with 14.4 million cross-platform viewers over seven days. The premiere of Survivor 50 (9.1 milllion viewers on CBS) and the return of Scrubs to ABC (9 million) rounded out the top five.

The top 20 shows across all platforms for Feb. 23-March 1 are below.