‘Stranger Things’ Dominated All of TV in 2025-26, But the Full Top 10 Tells a Bigger Story About Streaming’s New Era

Television has spent years debating whether streaming and broadcast can truly be measured side by side, and now a definitive answer has arrived. Nielsen’s annual look at the 2025-2026 TV season, compiled using 35-day multiplatform viewership, finally offers an apples-to-apples comparison of how shows are performing across streaming, broadcast, and cable. The numbers paint a...