Netflix's 'Stranger Things' Leads 2025-26 TV Season Ratings with 32.9 Million Viewers, Nielsen Data Shows
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Nielsen's 35-day multiplatform rankings for the 2025-2026 TV season show Netflix's 'Stranger Things' as the most-watched series with an average of 32.9 million viewers. The data, which compares streaming vs. linear TV viewership, excludes sports series like 'Sunday Night Football.'
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Nielsen introduced the multiplatform data last year, finally giving us an apples-to-apples comparison of how shows are doing on streaming vs. linear
Nielsen 35-day multiplatform rankers: the most popular TV shows of the 2025-26 TV season. Ratings led by Netflix's 'Stranger Things' and 'His & Hers.'
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