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November 10, 2026
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Nolte: Most Popular Streaming Shows Are Almost All Old Reruns

Below is an amazing chart that makes the programming decisions made by various streamers truly baffling: Six of those shows are from traditional broadcast networks… Grey’s Anatomy comes from ABC; NCIS, Criminal Minds, and The Big Bang Theory are CBS shows; Supernatural is from the…

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Below is an amazing chart that makes the programming decisions made by various streamers truly baffling:

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Six of those shows are from traditional broadcast networks…

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Grey’s Anatomy comes from ABC; NCIS, Criminal Minds, and The Big Bang Theory are CBS shows; Supernatural is from the CW; and Family Guy is from Fox. Spongebob and Bluey come from cable networks. Cocomelon originated on YouTube.

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Only Stranger Things originated as a streaming series.

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Seven of these shows are old enough to drink.

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One show is old enough to graduate high school.

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Only Stranger Things and Bluey remain relatively young.

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Two shows now in their thirties, Friends and Seinfeld, fell just outside of the top ten, primarily due to their shorter per-episode runtime.

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Certainly, a primary reason for the success of these shows has to do with the number of episodes. When you have only 30 episodes of The Mandalorian and some 400 episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, you’re comparing apples to oranges.

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What I don’t get is why the streamers refuse to reproduce the success of the shows people obviously love so much that they binge them over and over again. Most of the shows on that chart are 1) self-contained procedurals and…

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