Analysis to come.
Thursday TV Ratings 10/29/26: Ghosts Special Builds on Eternally Yours and Rises from Finale, SVU Dips Further as The Traitors: New Blood Rebounds, 9-1-1 Ticks Up
Marietta Season 9 Episode 3 - Surfin’ USA
Marietta Season 9 Episode 3
Surfin' USA
ABC Renew/Cancel Week 5: A Farewell to RJ Decker
This week on the ABC Renew/Cancel, I give my final call on RJ Decker, as the sophomore ABC drama wraps its second season with haste. Plus, some thoughts on the increasingly-precarious situation Shark Tank finds itself in, with the show set to be booted from its current time slot in January.
Evergreen Aimee Season 6 Episode 3 - The "Miracle" Worker
Evergreen Aimee Season 6 Episode 3
The "Miracle" Worker
CBS Renew/Cancel Week 4: Ghosts Will Scare Up A Renewal
Welcome to Week 4 of CBS Renew/Cancel for the 2026-27 TV season. All Paramount+ peaks listed are as reported in our weekly What's Trending on Streaming column, and is collected directly from Paramount+ daily at 2 pm Eastern Time. All A18-49 and viewership data is sourced from Nielsen, and Attention Scores are sourced from Television Stats. Let us know what you think in the comments and by voting below!
Wednesday TV Ratings 10/28/26: World Series Jumps for Final Game, Scrubs and Shark Tank Dip, Chicago Fire and Chicago PD Each Lose a Tenth
Analysis to come.
First Week Peak: The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins Will Rise Into Peacock’s Top 10
Welcome to First Week Peak, a column which discusses shows that are about to premiere on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Paramount+, HBO Max, Peacock, Hulu, and/or Apple TV. Each discussion concludes with a prediction for the show's weekly peak performance on their respective streaming service's U.S. trending chart, including a reader poll. All Attention Scores come from Television Stats as of October 31, 2026. Final results can be found in our weekly What's Trending On Streaming column. Let us know what you think in the comments!
Streaming Premieres
Netflix premieres another new docuseries this week with Taken: Natalee Holloway. If this performs anything like their other recent docuseries, it will premiere at #1 and dominant the chart for some time. Netflix has become the go-to streamer for the genre, so this failing to reach #1 would be the exception, not the rule.
The streamer will also bring back British drama Black Doves, which aired its six-episode first season/series in 2024 to immense success. The long wait time and competition from a brand new docuseries risks this being blocked from #1, at least in the United States. It should still perform well enough for a renewal.
Netflix's third premiere of the week is the anime series Bass X Machina, which will likely serve a more niche audience. Its fate could go either way, but Netflix has expressed a desire recently to cut back on the number of original programs in their lineup.
Elsewhere, Apple TV's golf comedy Stick will return for its second season this coming week. It's already made pretty consistent appearances in their top 10 chart, which is a strong signal it will perform well upon its return. It also holds a 3.8 Attention Score, and could plausibly rival its 15.2 peak when it returns. While Apple TV has next to no catalog to compete with the other streaming services for total market share, their original series have clearly become competitive.
Hulu's All's Fair will return for its second season next week, and holds a much weaker 1.5 Attention Score. It's gone as high as a 19.9 before, but even then would have to compete with ABC's scripted lineup, Swipe Right on the Deal, Reasonable Doubt, TheDrop: A Snowfall Saga, and The Kardashians for the top spot. A renewal can be eked out, but a #1 debut is less likely.
Prime Video will premiere the miniseries The Greatest, which holds a 1.5 Attention Score. It has an uphill battle to #1 given the continued dominance of The Terminal List, with Carrie holding consistently at #2.
Broadcast Premieres
Tuesday TV Ratings 10/27/26: RJ Decker Dips for Finale as Dancing with the Stars Rises, World Series Jumps, NCIS and NCIS: Origins Take Hits
Analysis to come.
What’s Trending on Streaming - October 25 - October 31: It’s a Great Week to Be It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, The Mob Sleeps With the Fishes, VisionQuest and South Park Remain Dominant
Pitch Your Show Idea for The Custodian In The Basement, TVRG Productions’ New Interactive Series
Monday TV Ratings 10/26/26: World Series Remains Clearly Down Year-to-Year, Line of Fire Dips,Harlan Coben’s Final Twist Continues to Embarrass
Analysis to come.
Criminal Minds Canceled After 20 Seasons
The milestone twentieth season of Criminal Minds will be its last. Paramount+ has unceremoniously canceled the series, weeks after the season finished filming. The news came as a surprise to the show's cast and crew, who were only informed of the decision today - season twenty was not planned in advance as the show's final chapter. It's the first show axed under the new Paramount+ leadership team following the recent closure of Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Revived just two years after ending its fifteen-year run on CBS, Criminal Minds ran five seasons as a Paramount+ original, and was among the streamer's top-performing originals. It regularly charted in their daily top ten TV chart, even months out from airing new episodes. However, the series was only partially owned by Paramount, which co-produces the series with Disney's 20th Television. AJ Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Paget Brewster, Joe Mantegna, Aisha Tyler, and Adam Rodriguez were among the longtime stars of the series, initially starring in the CBS version before returning for the Paramount+ revival.
Sunday TV Ratings 10/25/26: The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Episode Up from 2025, Tracker Declines, Animal Control and Universal Basic Guys Remain Tepid
Analysis to come.
Saturday TV Ratings 10/24/26: Forgotten Holiday Strong on Hallmark, World Series Declines for Game 2, Ole Miss/Texas is Top College FootballGame of the Night
Analysis to come.
Our House Season 9 Episode 4 - Our Scary Movie
Our House Season 9 Episode 4
Our Scary Movie
NBC Renew/Cancel Week 5: Newlyweds’ Honeymoon Phase May End Quickly
Friday TV Ratings 10/23/26: A Tepid Start for Newlyweds, Happy’s Place Returns Up from Finale but Down from Season Average, World Series Slightly Below 2025 Start (Updated with Cable)
Analysis to come.
Thursday TV Ratings 10/22/26: Law & Order: SVU and The Traitors: New Blood Slide Again, 9-1-1 and Elsbeth Also Decline, Cupertino Rises (Updated with Cable)
Analysis to come.
Wednesday TV Ratings 10/21/26: Dolly Parton CMA Special Impressive, Survivor and Abbott Elementary Hit Season Highs, The Floor and Scrubs Decline (Updated with Cable)
Analysis to come.
PILOT REVISITED: Suburgatory
Each week, I take a look back at a pilot from the 2011-12 season, first reviewed on my blog during that season. This week, I am looking at ABC's moderate success story Suburgatory!
Marietta Season 9 Episode 2 - Fright Night!
Marietta Season 9 Episode 2
Fright Night!
ABC Renew/Cancel Week 4: 9-1-1: Nashville Doesn’t Need Rescuing
This week on the ABC Renew/Cancel, the final premieres of the fall season - their Thursday drama lineup - hit the chart, with initial predictions for long-running hit 9-1-1, Thursday night staple Grey's Anatomy, and sophomore drama 9-1-1: Nashville.
Evergreen Aimee Season 6 Episode 2 - Tricks, No Treats
Evergreen Aimee Season 6 Episode 2
Tricks, No Treats
CBS Renew/Cancel Week 3: Eternally Yours Won’t Be Here Eternally
Welcome to Week 3 of CBS Renew/Cancel for the 2026-27 TV season. All Paramount+ peaks listed are as reported in our weekly What's Trending on Streaming column, and is collected directly from Paramount+ daily at 2 pm Eastern Time. All A18-49 and viewership data is sourced from Nielsen, and Attention Scores are sourced from Television Stats. Let us know what you think in the comments and by voting below!
First Week Peak: The One About Matthew Perry to be The One to Peak at #1
Welcome to First Week Peak, a column which discusses shows that are about to premiere on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Paramount+, HBO Max, Peacock, Hulu, and/or Apple TV. Each discussion concludes with a prediction for the show's weekly peak performance on their respective streaming service's U.S. trending chart, including a reader poll. All Attention Scores come from Television Stats as of October 25, 2026. Final results can be found in our weekly What's Trending On Streaming column. Let us know what you think in the comments!
Six shows are premiering on streaming services this coming week, and all of them are series premieres. This includes two Netflix miniseries: the Matthew Perry 3-episode biography The One About Matthew Perry, and the 3-episode true crime docuseries The Fall of El Mayo. The true crime docuseries sub-genre performs extraordinarily well on Netflix, which gives reason to believe The Fall of El Mayo will be sampled upon its premiere. However, it is not expected to surpass The One About Matthew Perry from the top spot, which has the chance to dominate the chart for days.
Outside of miniseries, the most high-profile series premiere is Apple TV's crime drama Nocturne, based on the novels Lazarus and The Sandman. While it would be a tall task to surpass shows like Ted Lasso and Slow Horses on Apple TV's now-competitive chart, its 6.6 Attention Score demonstrates the series is getting early exposure and has the potential to perform well.
Hulu will be premiering a strategy/reality competition series The Mob this coming week. The show hails from the producers of The Traitors, and could turn out as being seen as anything between the next reality phenom and a cheap ripoff. While this would very likely perform well for Peacock, it's less certain for Hulu.
Netflix has two comedies making their series premieres this coming week: Minimum Wage and How to Ruin Diwali: Meet the Parents. Minimum Wage is a Netflix adaptation of an independent YouTube series, and co-stars new Saturday Night Live cast member Grace Reiter. While its short length time and comedy's general underperformance on Netflix make this unlikely to top the chart, it will likely cultivate enough of a cult audience to get renewed. Similar can be said for How to Ruin Diwali: Meet the Parents, which is of South African origin and much more likely to make a chart appearance in South Africa than it is in the United States.
Tuesday TV Ratings 10/20/26: NBA Up Comfortably from 2025 NBC Opener, Dancing with the Stars Dips Slightly, Best Medicine and NCIS: New York Also Down
Analysis to come.
RSN Season 2 Episode 8: Earnest Returns (Season Finale) + Reader Poll
What’s Trending on Streaming - October 18 - October 24: Slow Horses Closes Season Six on Top, The Terminal List Returns Strong After Lengthy Hiatus, Phony Premieres with a Thud
It's been another busy week on streaming, filled with new episodes of many hit shows, as well as several premieres and finales. Keep reading to see the top shows on Hulu, Disney+, Peacock, Paramount+, HBO Max, Apple TV, Prime Video, and Netflix this week!
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