Reacher Officially Beats Ted Lasso With All Time Streaming Record as #1 TV Show

Amazon Prime Video’s Reacher crossed another significant milestone this week as it held the number one spot on the streaming charts for the fifth consecutive week (via Nielsen). The latest season of the action thriller has reportedly raked up over a billion streaming minutes per week, beating out shows like Apple TV’s Ted Lasso and Paramount+’s Lioness, making it the #1 TV show in the US.

Season four, which premiered in August, has achieved a feat few streaming originals sustain across a season’s entire run. With the season now concluded and a new spinoff called Neagley already climbing Prime Video’s rankings, the Jack Reacher franchise finds itself in the rare position of running two hit shows at once.

Reacher’s Numbers Indicate Strong Fanbase It Has Built Over the Years

Alan Ritchson in Reacher | Credits: Amazon Prime Video

Reacher’s performance is not just limited to a single season spike or a weekly story. The show, based on Lee Child’s novel series, has sustained steady numbers and the top position for weeks, and has fared very well even after Season 4 ended. This is a great feat in a system that is extremely cut-throat.

Alan Ritchson’s show has been hitting numbers since its debut in 2022 and has become a major asset for Amazon Prime Video. Beating the likes of Ted Lasso is not an easy feat, considering how family-friendly the sports drama is and that the fourth season of the Apple TV show is still ongoing. The fact that a show is still on top days after it ended its seasonal run is incredible.

Usually, new episodes of a popular show bring back the numbers, but Reacher did not need that after season 4 ended. The series also raked up more than 1.19 billion minutes in viewership on just three episodes released in the new season. The show has crossed 1.5 billion minutes of streaming across all seasons (Nielsen, August 10-16, 2026).

Streaming hits typically spike hard on release weekend and fade fast once the algorithm moves on to the next premiere. Reacher instead behaved like appointment television, holding a massive audience across an entire month while fending off genuinely strong competition. This proves that the show has gathered an incredibly large and loyal fanbase.

Reacher and Neagley’s Performance Signals Positives for the Franchise

Jack Reacher and Neagley in Reacher | Credits: Amazon Prime Video

The success of Reacher is not an anomaly, as the spinoff series, Neagley, also performed incredibly well on Amazon Prime Video, outperforming the flagship as well in the release week. Timed almost exactly to the close of season 4, Neagley dropped all episodes at once and has overtaken Reacher on the global chart (separate from domestic viewing numbers).

This points to a positive sign for the franchise as Amazon Prime Video is able to capitalize on the show’s increasing success while also getting another one that has equal interest. Streamers have seen a trend of launching new spinoffs only when there is a decline in the flagship’s ratings or when it’s over (like Game of Thrones).

However, Reacher is gearing up for season 5, which was greenlit even before the premiere of season 4, signalling that the streamer finds the franchise to be extremely promising. The incredible numbers of both shows prove that there is a lot of scope for developing more series centered in the ‘Reacher-verse’.

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Reacher is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.