{"id":362070,"date":"2025-11-07T11:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/362070\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:30:23","slug":"peacemaker-finally-charts-on-nielsen-and-its-in-the-gutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/362070\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacemaker Finally Charts On Nielsen \u2014\u00a0And It&#8217;s In The Gutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peacemaker has finally made the Nielsen streaming charts, but not in a way James Gunn is likely to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>Peacemaker Barely Scrapes Onto the Chart<\/p>\n<p>It took the <strong>entire<\/strong> Season 2 release, plus Nielsen counting <strong>all available episodes<\/strong> (including Season 1), for Peacemaker to show up on the charts at all.<\/p>\n<p>For the week the Season 2 finale dropped (<strong>Oct. 6\u201312<\/strong>), Peacemaker landed on Nielsen\u2019s <strong>Originals<\/strong> chart in the <strong>#10 spot<\/strong> with <strong>398 million minutes<\/strong> viewed.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the lowest position on the chart.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1117\" height=\"566\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/peacemaker-season-2-finale-nielsen.jpg\" alt=\"peacemaker season 2 finale nielsen\" class=\"wp-image-147787\" title=\"peacemaker season 2 finale nielsen\"   loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>Nielsen \u201cOriginal\u201d charts for Oct. 6 -12, 2025<\/p>\n<p>A Weak Week Helped Peacemaker Slip In<\/p>\n<p>It also needs to be pointed out: in any other week this season, Peacemaker wouldn\u2019t have charted at all. The only reason it made the list is because other shows that week had low viewing minutes (Gen V fell off the charts), leaving an opening at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Compare this to stronger weeks throughout the year where the #10 slot easily cleared 400\u2013500 million minutes. Under normal conditions, Peacemaker would still be invisible.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1074\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/peacemaker-lex-scene.jpg\" alt=\"peacemaker lex scene\" class=\"wp-image-146816\" title=\"peacemaker lex scene\"   fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Follows Season 2\u2019s Declining Viewership<\/p>\n<p>The late Nielsen appearance lines up with the viewership problems already reported:<\/p>\n<p>And none of the Season 2 episodes made the Nielsen charts during their respective weeks \u2014 even with the push Gunn tried to create by positioning the season as a \u201csequel\u201d to Superman.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/peacemaker-season-2-red-band-trailer-f-bombs.webp.webp\" alt=\"Peacemaker Season 2 Drops Red-Band Trailer With Lots Of F-Bombs\" class=\"wp-image-145012\" title=\"peacemaker season 2 red band trailer f bombs\"   fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Gunn Already Confirmed No Season 3<\/p>\n<p>James Gunn recently confirmed Peacemaker isn\u2019t getting a third season, and the Nielsen numbers won\u2019t help the narrative. <\/p>\n<p>The show simply didn\u2019t maintain interest, even with the multiverse twist and DCU tie-ins meant to build momentum.<\/p>\n<p>With Superman underperforming and Peacemaker struggling to find an audience, <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbook.news\/james-gunn-out-dcu-wbd-sale-reboot\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cosmicbook.news\/james-gunn-out-dcu-wbd-sale-reboot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">questions around Gunn\u2019s DCU direction continue to grow<\/a>. Creature Commandos also never charted on Nielsen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peacemaker has finally made the Nielsen streaming charts, but not in a way James Gunn is likely to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":362071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[171,487,956,5234,58723,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-362070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hbo-max","10":"tag-james-gunn","11":"tag-john-cena","12":"tag-peacemaker","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}