SKYSCRAPER LIVE FALLS SHORT OF TOPPING NETFLIX CHARTS. (PHOTO).
Skyscraper Live falls short of topping Netflix charts Alex Honnold’s climb of one of the world’s tallest buildings drew significant attention on Netflix, but the live special fell short of topping the streamer’s weekly charts. Skyscraper Live, which aired on Jan. 24 after a one-day delay due to weather, recorded 6.2 million views globally over Saturday and Sunday. That placed it third among English-language shows for the week of Jan. 19-25. The 116-minute special, which followed Honnold scaling the facade of Taipei 101 in Taiwan, accumulated 12 million hours of viewing, a metric calculated by dividing total viewing hours by run time. The shift from Friday to Saturday may have reduced its total views, as it had less time to accumulate numbers and Saturday is generally a lighter night for TV audiences. Netflix has increasingly explored live programming, but Skyscraper Live represents its first foray into this type of extreme, made-for-TV spectacle. While it lagged behind the platform’s N...
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed ''heart-felt'' sadness over the death of Madam Omowunmi Bisi Akande,wife of the founding chairman of the governing All Progressives Congress,APC.In a letter penned by him on the heels of an earlier telephone call to the bereaved party chieftan on wednesday,President Buhari described as ''irreparable'' the loss by Chief Akande of his wife of 50 years.The President's message reads as follows:''I received the very sad news of the death of your dearly beloved wife,Madam Omowunmi Akande this morning.I am following our phone call with this letter of condolence,which comes from my heart.To lose a wife,a dear wife after 50 years,a constant and loving companion through good and bad times,is a blow only a ma of unshakeable faith can withstand.Please extend my personal condolences to the immediate and wider Akande family and to friends of the family for this irreparable loos.May Allah give you the strength and Iman to endure her passing away''.
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