• by Adam Buckman , Featured Columnist, July 21, 2026

A TV-show ranking website uses Wikipedia pageviews as the primary source for its lists of the most popular TV shows.

The site, TelevisionStats.com, lists Wikipedia as the “foundation” for its “Attention Score” popularity lists that are updated daily.

“Every score starts with Wikipedia pageviews: how many people are reading a title's Wikipedia pages each day,” Television Stats explains on its website.

The company believes that Wikipedia usage “is one of the best available measures of general-public curiosity, capturing everyone from actual searchers to fans checking facts after an episode.”

Television Stats then ranks the most popular shows in the U.S. based on a base score of 100 “calibrated to the typical daily No. 1 show,” the company says, adding that “most titles sit well below that.”

In its most recent list, covering last Saturday and updated on Sunday, the top 10 shows in its Wikipedia-based online engagement metric start with: (1) “House of the Dragon,” above photo (HBO Max), score: 46.7; (2) “I Will Find You,” the new Harlan Coben thriller on Netflix, 43.9; (3) “Ride Or Die,” Peacock's new assassin drama, 40.9; (4) “The Hawk,” Will Ferrell's new pro golf comedy (Netflix), 36.5, and (5) “Widow's Bay” (Apple TV+), 35.9.

Rounding out the list are: (6) “Ted Lasso” (Apple TV+), 34.8; (7) “Little House on the Prairie” (Netflix), 34.1; (8) “Agent Kim Reactivated” (Korean thriller drama available on Netflix U.S., 29.4; (9) ‘Silo” (Apple TV+), 26.7; and “The East Palace” (Netflix), 25.7). See the full list here.

Scores between 20 and 49 are considered “high,” while 50-79 scores are “excellent” and any show with an 80+ score is a “phenomenon,” the company says.

While Wikipedia pageviews form the basis for these lists, Television Stats says the Wikipedia “foundation” is “then built up with additional engagement signals, each weighted by how reliably it reflects real attention.”

“These include the volume of new reviews audiences are leaving, the growth of a title’s fan communities and social followings, and demand from torrent downloads,” says the company.

Other than Wikipedia, the sources of the other “engagement signals” are not disclosed on the website.

This Wikipedia-based method of tracking the daily popularity of TV shows is the brainchild of David Mancherje, described on the Television Stats website as an entrepreneur and software developer. He is also the founder of Shoop.com, a daily retail-sales tracker.