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Quiet on Set Was the Most-Watched Title on Streaming in Its Debut Week
It’s a big (and rare) Nielsen win for Max.
It turns out all the social-media buzz about Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV translated into massive ratings success for the child-star exposé. While HBO proper has certainly had success in the true-crime space — it’s about to release a follow-up to 2015’s The Jinx — the legacy cable brand simply isn’t set up to produce the sheer volume (and sometimes shamelessness) of what comes out of the Discovery Networks machine. In addition to Quiet on Set, another ID title — season two of The Curious Case of Natalia Grace — was the top-rated series on Max when it debuted the first week of January.
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