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| Thanks for opening today's Inside Streaming daily brief, and welcome! We're glad to have you. NBCUniversal spent around $100 million on Saturday's exclusive NFL Wild Card playoff game, and at least in the short-term, the deal seems to have paid off. Peacock set a new record for simultaneous viewership without crashing, and the game brought additional attention to the second-tier streamer which at time struggles to get noticed against higher-profile rivals. Even the new Seth MacFarlane comedy series "Ted" appears to have gotten a boost from NFL fans checking out Peacock for the first time. Did Peacock get $100 million worth of new attention? What would that even look like? We're still early enough into the streaming era that these things can be a bit hard to evaluate and codify directly. Nonetheless, at this point, making any kind of big eyeball-grabbing statement in the streaming world is a major challenge. So NBCU got SOMETHING valuable for its $100 million at least. Enjoy today's issue. We'll see you back here tomorrow. Lon
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| 1 | | According to Nielsen, Saturday's NFL "Wild Card" playoff game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins was streamed by 23 million total viewers -- mostly on Peacock -- making it the "most-streamed live event in US history." The game was also responsible for the most internet usage on a single date in American history, and consumed 30% of all US internet traffic on Saturday night. More: - The 23M number includes the Peacock streaming audience along with the NFL+ mobile app and local TV affiliates in the Miami and Kansas City areas.
- Overall viewership was up around 6% over last year's AFC Wild Card game, which was broadcast on NBC.
- The game also appeared to give Peacock's new comedy series "Ted" a boost; according to NBCUniversal, it's the most-watched original title in the platform's history in its first three days online.
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| 2 | | Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny signed on to co-star in the second season of Netflix's anthology crime drama series "Monster." The duo will portray José and Kitty Menéndez, who were murdered by their songs Erik and Lyle in 1996. More: - Cooper Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez have already been cast as Erik and Lyle Menéndez, respectively.
- While the brothers have always maintained that the murders were a desperate response to years of mental and physical abuse, prosecutors argued that they were eager to inherit their family fortune; they're both serving life sentences in prison.
- "Monster" was co-created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan; Season 1 centered on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, and ranks as one of Netflix's most popular English-language TV seasons ever.
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| 3 | | DAILY CALENDAR MONDAY, JANUARY 15 COCOMELON: The iconic musical animated collection for young kids -- which started life on YouTube before becoming one of Netflix's most-watched shows -- returns with a 9th season of new videos. [Netflix] MABOROSHI: Anime drama feature from writer Mari Okada ("Her Blue Sky") and "Attack on Titan" studio MAPPA, set in a town where a strange explosion brings time itself to a standstill. In the aftermath, local residents are forbidden from changing, regardless of how they feel. [Netflix] | | | |
| 4 | | In its first week, the Marvel Studios action drama "Echo" was the most-watched TV series on both Disney+ and Hulu in the US. "Echo" is the first Marvel show to debut on both streaming platforms, as well as the first to release all of its episodes simultaneously. More: - "Echo" is also the first Marvel Studios series developed for Disney+ to receive a restrictive TV-MA rating for mature audiences.
- "Echo" was released under the new "Marvel Spotlight" banner, which will focus on more grounded, personal stories with "street-level stakes" and limited continuity with the larger MCU.
- Alaqua Cox stars as Maya Lopez, a former New York gang leader who returns to her Oklahoma hometown and gets back in touch with her roots; Chaske Spencer, Tantoo Cardinal, Graham Greene, and Vincent D'Onofrio co-star.
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| 5 | | Netflix released a trailer for the upcoming British crime comedy-drama series "The Gentlemen." Filmmaker Guy Ritchie developed the series, which was inspired by his 2019 film of the same name. More: - The eight-part series stars Theo James as a young aristocrat who inherits his father's estate, then discovers it's home to the largest cannabis farm in Europe.
- The ensemble cast also includes Vinnie Jones, Joely Richardson, Kaya Scodelario, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Serafinowicz, and many others.
- Ritchie co-wrote and executive-produced the series, and directed the first two episodes.
- "The Gentlemen" hits Netflix in March.
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| 6 | | According to original author R.L. Stine, Netflix plans to make another film in its "Fear Street" anthology. In a social media post, Stine reported that the next "Fear Street" film will be based on his book "The Prom Queen." More: - Stine is best known for the "Goosebumps" horror series for young readers; his "Fear Street" books are written with teen and YA audiences in mind.
- In 2021, Netflix released three "Fear Street" films three weeks in a row, though they were based on an original story and not directly adapted from any Stine novels.
- Netflix had indicated late last year that a new "Fear Street" project was in development.
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| 7 | | According to a report from Deadline, US "The Office" creator Greg Daniels has assembled a trusted team to develop a new take on the beloved comedy series. The "development room" will meet and begin work on the new project this week. More: - The new series will serve as a spiritual follow-up to "The Office," set in an original workplace with a fresh cast of characters; it will still be set in the same "world" as the original show's Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
- Daniels has suggested the new show will follow a similar mockumentary format.
- The original "Office" debuted in 2005 and ran for nine seasons.
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- "Pokémon Horizons: The Series," which introduces a new storyline and characters to the long-running anime franchise, has been delayed in the US and now arrives on March 7, exclusively on Netflix.
- BET plans to license eight original shows from creator Tyler Perry for syndication deals, and to rival streaming platforms; the line-up includes "Tyler Perry's House of Payne," "Sistas," "The Oval," "Zatima," and "All the Queen's Men."
- TV winners at the Critics Choice Awards largely mirrored the Golden Globes, with Netflix's "Beef," HBO's "Succession," and FX's "The Bear" claiming top prizes.
- Co-creator Jonathan Nolan told Empire Magazine that the "Fallout" Prime Video adaptation concerns "what happens when you outsource the survival of the human race"; the series debuts in April.
- Senior Sky executive Andrea Zappia will move over to Africa's Showmax streaming platform, as its new chairman.
- Though the Season 1 finale of Apple's "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters" seemed to set up another season, no renewal announcements have yet been made.
- The Italian biographical drama series "Supersex" -- based on the life of adult film actor Rocco Siffredi -- will premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, before hitting Netflix globally on March 6.
- An online auction of props and costumes from HBO's "Succession" brought in over $627,000 on Saturday; the "ludicrously capacious" Burberry tote from the show's final season alone was picked up for $18,750.
- Netflix announced a new slate of 12 licensed Tegulu-language films hitting the platform in 2024, including "Devara," starring "RRR" vet NTR Jr; the 2023 theatrical hit "Salaar: Part 1 - Ceasefire"; and "Pushpa 2: The Rule," a sequel to the 2021 hit "Pushpa: The Rise."
- During a chat with The Sunday Times commemorating the 25th anniversary of "The Sopranos," creator David Chase suggested that the "Golden Age of Television" ushered in by the crime series has now come to a close.
- "Succession" star Brian Cox said that he'd be open to returning for a hypothetical spinoff film, but only if creator Jesse Armstrong is involved.
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 | Writer | | Lon Harris is the writer and editor of Inside Streaming and was the very first person to ever write an Inside newsletter. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and also writes about TV and film for Fandom, Screen Junkies, Rotten Tomatoes, Gamma Ray and others. Plus he has a Game of Thrones podcast called "Casterly Talk" and competes on The Movie Trivia Schmoedown as "The Professor." | | This newsletter was edited by Lon Harris | |
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