{"id":304239,"date":"2025-11-21T00:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304239\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T00:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:56:09","slug":"streaming-ratings-oct-20-26-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304239\/","title":{"rendered":"Streaming Ratings Oct. 20-26, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNetflix\u2019s political drama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-diplomat\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-diplomat_1\" data-tag=\"the-diplomat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Diplomat<\/a> moved into the top spot on Nielsen\u2019s streaming charts with sizable growth from its premiere week, and the streamer\u2019s true-crime documentary The Perfect Neighbor also surged. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Diplomat drew about 1.24 billion minutes of viewing time for the week of Oct. 20-26, improving by 36 percent from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/streaming-ratings-oct-13-19-2025-1236426702\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the previous week<\/a> and displacing Monster: The Ed Gein Story from the No. 1 overall spot. The Diplomat\u2019s weekly total was its best since the second week of its first season in 2023. Nielsen also notes that 72 percent of the show\u2019s viewing \u2014 about 889 minutes \u2014\u00a0came from the newly released third season, with the remainder devoted to prior episodes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Perfect Neighbor, meanwhile, grew by 26 percent week to week and hit 1.01 billion viewing minutes. Rom-com <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/nobody-wants-this\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nobody-wants-this_1\" data-tag=\"nobody-wants-this\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nobody Wants This<\/a> came in third overall with 904 million minutes of watch time with the premiere of its second season on Oct. 23, but that was off by about 13 percent from its series premiere last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAfter three weeks as top streaming title, The Ed Gein Story slipped out of the overall top 10. It ranked fourth among original series with 571 million minutes of viewing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/stranger-things\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stranger-things_1\" data-tag=\"stranger-things\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stranger Things<\/a> (524 million minutes) had its best week of 2025 so far a month before the final season premiere. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNetflix\u2019s feature film A House of Dynamite debuted with 734 million viewing minutes, finishing second among movies to The Perfect Neighbor. Halloween perennials Hocus Pocus and The Nightmare Before Christmas also returned to the chart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNielsen\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/streaming-ratings\/\" id=\"auto-tag_streaming-ratings_1\" data-tag=\"streaming-ratings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streaming ratings<\/a> cover viewing on TV sets only and don\u2019t include minutes watched on computers or mobile devices. The ratings only measure U.S. audiences, not those in other countries. The top streaming titles for Oct. 20-26, 2025, are below.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix\u2019s political drama The Diplomat moved into the top spot on Nielsen\u2019s streaming charts with sizable growth from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,76714,13671,67239,76719,92,9611],"class_list":{"0":"post-304239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-nobody-wants-this","10":"tag-stranger-things","11":"tag-streaming-ratings","12":"tag-the-diplomat","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-tv-ratings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}