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There’s no doubt that Love Island USA was the show of the summer, but it appears U.S. television audiences have had some diverse taste as of late, particularly over the July 4 holiday. The Peacock reality series generated another 1.9B minutes viewed to return to No. 1 on the Nielsen streaming…

Fox News topped the July ratings, but among the major cable news networks, MS NOW and CNN made gains during the month versus 2025. In primetime, Fox News averaged 2.33 million viewers, down 3% from the same month in 2025. MS NOW averaged 1.02 million, up 18%, while CNN posted 658,000, up 32%. In…

Add Ransom Canyon to the list of Netflix series whose second seasons are opening significantly lower than the first ones this year. The romantic drama starring Minka Kelly and Josh Duhamel logged 4.1 million views for its first week of release, down 43% from the Season 1 opening week, which…

Flying largely under the radar, Harlan Coben has become Netflix’s secret weapon. While not as flashy as some of Netflix’s marquee franchises as Bridgerton or Stranger Things, the adaptations of his bestselling thrillers have become a cottage industry, delivering high volume and solid return on…

Big Brother is continuing to house solid ratings for CBS as its spinoff series Big Brother: Unlocked delivered its most-watched episode ever. The classic reality series, which premiered on July 9, averaged 5M viewers across its premiere week with the first three episodes of Season 28, per…

Spain's victory over Argentina in the World Cup final was watched by 62.8 million people in the U.S., breaking ratings records for both Fox and Telemundo. Fox averaged 38.9M viewers for Sunday's final, and NBCUniversal's Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo brought in an additional 23.9M…

EXCLUSIVE: Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro is proving to be a fierce new addition to the summer television lineup. The new series, which chronicles the search for the franchise’s next professional ballroom dancer ahead of Dancing with the Stars Season 35, debuted to a total audience of…

EXCLUSIVE: Bravo gets the standing O for its ratings performance in the second quarter of the year. For the first time in more than a year, the network’s primetime lineup ranked No. 1 in linear cable entertainment among the 18-49 in Q2 2026. The cabler’s success also translated to Peacock, where…

Little House on the Prairie has been finding more viewers on Netflix after its modest launch. The frontier drama series, based on Laura Ingalls Wilder's book series, leapt to No. 1 in Netflix's English-language television ratings in its second week with 9.8 million views. This was up more than…

Following its release on the platform in the spring, Netflix’s original animated feature film Swapped, featuring the voices of Michael B. Jordan and Juno Temple, has cracked the top 10 of the streamer’s most popular movie list. The film comes in at No. 10 for the week with 139.8 million views…

The Five Star Weekend is highly favored with Peacock subscribers. The series, which premiered on July 9, has launched as the top Peacock scripted title of all time with over 1B viewing minutes in its first week on the platform, per first party data from the streamer. While Nielsen’s…

Netflix launched a number of new reality series in the first half of the year and it turns out viewers were most turned on by its age-shifting dating escapades. Age of Attraction, from Velvet Hammer Media, was the streamer's top-performing new unscripted series over the first six months of 2026…