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CBS News
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America's most popular TV shows of all time, ranked
April 23, 2021 - Baby boomers rated the 1971-1979 series as their 15th-most popular TV show ever, while millennials logged it as their 499th-most popular. ... Who doesn't like "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"? Hardly anyone, per YouGov data: The 1970-1977 comedy was disliked by just 7% of total respondents. But while "Mary Tyler Moore" was the fourth-most popular program among polled baby boomers, it ranked 509th among millennials. ... From 1994-2004, "Friends" reigned as one of the most talked-about and watched shows of its time.
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YouGov
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The most popular all-time TV shows in America | Entertainment | YouGov Ratings
The most popular all-time TV shows in America according to YouGov Ratings. Popularity is based on millions of responses from the American public and YouGov's innovative survey methodology.
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Wikipedia
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List of most watched television broadcasts in the United States - Wikipedia
2 weeks ago - The highest-rated broadcast of all time is the final episode of M*A*S*H in 1983, with 60.2% of all households with television sets in the United States at that time watching the episode. Aside from Super Bowls, the most recent broadcast to receive a rating above 40 was the Seinfeld finale in ...
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Variety
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The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time
December 21, 2023 - Variety breaks down the best TV shows of all time. From The Sopranos to Community, these are the best series ever aired.
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IMDb
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Top 250 TV shows
The top rated TV Shows list only includes TV series and TV mini series.
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IMDb
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Most popular TV shows
Our Most Popular charts use data from the search behavior of IMDb's more than 250 million monthly unique visitors to rank the hottest, most buzzed about movies and TV shows.
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IGN
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Top 100 TV Shows of All Time - IGN.com
The show that killed The Brady Bunch — with overlapping timeslots on different networks, Sanford and Son outperformed until the end. ... With a series finale watched by a staggering 125 million people — the most-watched television episode in history — M*A*S*H* cemented itself as one of the longest running and enduringly popular TV ...
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Empire
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The 100 best TV shows of all time that everyone should watch
April 9, 2024 - From The Sopranos to The Last Of Us, Empire readers and critics rank the 100 greatest TV shows ever made. Read the list.
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The Hollywood Reporter
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The Most-Watched TV Shows And Movies Right Now
January 15, 2024 - 1 and 2 couldn’t be wider but Paramount+’s Landman season 2 made a good showing as it debuted. ↑ The Jim Carrey live-action How the Grinch Stole Christmas is winning the holiday movie wars so far. ↑ Kevin Hart Netflix comedy Acting My Age saw “the highest concentration of Black viewers (32%) of any Top 10 title this week,” per Nielsen.
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University of Pennsylvania Libraries
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Best TV of All Time - Lists - Cinema & Media Studies - Guides at Penn Libraries
This list comes from Rob Sheffield's list of 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, from Rolling Stone, Sept. 16, 2016, with links to streaming sources online or records for DVD sets in the Penn Libraries collections, for the benefit of television studies and media history researchers.
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IMDb
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Top 100 most watched tv shows of all time
An unusual group of robbers attempt to carry out the most perfect robbery in Spanish history - stealing 2.4 billion euros from the Royal Mint of Spain.CreatorÁlex PinaStarsÚrsula CorberóÁlvaro MorteItziar Ituño ... Aspiring actress Penny moves into a Pasadena apartment across the hall from brilliant but socially awkward physicists Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter, and shows them how little they know about life outside of the lab.CreatorsChuck LorreBill PradyStarsJohnny GaleckiJim ParsonsKaley Cuoco
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Reddit
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r/dataisbeautiful on Reddit: [OC] Most Popular Television Series 1951 - 2019
May 21, 2020 - Vitameatavegamin was my all time favorite episode. As with Laurel and Hardy, it just never gets old for me. ... Why don't you join the thousands of happy peppy people and get a great big bottle of Vitaveatyvemeanyminimoe! Nick at Night was my jam. Ahh, nostalgia. ... I'm in my thirties and the weirdest part about this was watching my childhood both enter and leave the graph. ... TV shows I don't recognize as a non-American: Caroline in the City, Boston Common, Suddenly Susan, The Naked Truth, Fired Up, Veronica's Closet, Jesse.
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YouGov
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YouGov
Discover our public data, featuring a diverse range of survey results, articles, trackers and popularity rankings · From the latest political surveys to in-depth analysis, find out what the world thinks
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Statista
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Most watched TV shows in the U.S. 2024| Statista
NFL Sunday Night Football” was the most watched TV show in the United States in the 2023/2024 season, with roughly **** million viewers.
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Palme School
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The best American TV shows: top 15 with high ratings - Palme School
October 31, 2025 - American Idol - the iconic musical show for up-and-coming artists. It airs in seasons on the FOX channel. America's Funniest Home Videos - a funny TV program with funny video episodes sent in by viewers. The Russian equivalent is "Self-Director". It is aired on ABC and is currently in its 35th season. What else is useful to read about the USA in our blog: a selection of movies about life in the U.S. will allow you to learn more about the life of ordinary Americans, the list of best stores and Russian stores in the U.S., as well as work options for a foreigner with no knowledge of English.
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WatchMojo
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Top 20 Most Popular TV Shows of All Time | Articles on WatchMojo.com
February 2, 2025 - And if all that isn’t enough to convince you of the show’s popularity, there’s the fact that “M*A*S*H” continues to hold the record for the most watched episode of American television ever, decades after its conclusion. Popular, funny, and influential - “Lucy” had it all! Possibly the most influential multi-camera sitcom of all time, “I Love Lucy” set the standard for most of the comedies that followed it - including using multiple cameras and a live audience.
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Collider
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These Are the 28 Highest-Grossing Television Shows of All Time
The supernatural series was an overnight sensation, and not only has it been a mainstay as one of the streaming service’s top shows, but Stranger Things became a merchandising machine, partitioning up with such iconic brands as Lego and Nike ...
Published   March 23, 2025
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Culturalcare
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5 best American TV shows to watch
Some of them are old college roommates, others are brother and sister, others are romantic partners…but all are good friends. You’ll laugh and cry along with them, and learn some of the most iconic lines of the TV show including “How you doin’?” and “WE WERE ON A BREAK!” First airing in 1994 and continuing into the early 2000s, FRIENDS is like a time capsule—a perfect reminder of what American life was like in the 1990s, and how much we’ve changed (and how technology has changed us!) over the years.