• by Wayne Friedman , Yesterday

Netflix and CBS are leading TV’s 2025-26 season-to-date entertainment program ratings including top shows “Stranger Things” and “Marshals,” respectively.

Netflix’s “Stranger Things” is averaging a Nielsen-measured 30.6 million average viewers from live airing of episodes through a 28-day viewing period. “Marshals” is next at 26.5 million average viewers for its airings on CBS and Paramount+.

Netflix has five of the top ten shows, and CBS has two of the top ten and six of the top 20 shows. Next is Disney’s ABC/Hulu with four of the top 20 programs. ABC/Hulu’s best program effort is “High Potential," which came in eighth place (15.7 million viewers).

Data comes from an analysis of program viewership from September 14, 2025 to March 1, 2026. Nielsen results include all streaming and broadcast but exclude sports, encores and TV series with less than four telecasts.

The strongest legacy-media owned streaming service exclusive program result was for Paramount+’s “Landman” (fifth place overall, 18.9 million viewers). HBO Max was next with “The Pitt” (in tenth place with 12.6 million).

Amazon Prime Video earned an 11th-place spot for “Fallout” with 12.5 million viewers.

Looking at the top five overall, after “Stranger Things” and “Marshals” came Netflix’s “His & Hers,” Netflix's “Sean Combs: The Reckoning” and Paramount+'s “Landman.”

The next five are Netflix’s “Bridgerton,” CBS/Paramount+ “Tracker,” ABC/Hulu’s “High Potential,” Netflix’s “Monster: The Ed Gein Story” and HBO Max’s “The Pitt.”