Most Popular TV Shows 2004–2026 | Google Trends

From Friends and Lost to Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones and Stranger Things—watch 78 selected TV series compete for search interest across more than two decades. Which show defined your era? Tell us your favorite below. ABOUT THE DATA This visualization uses an archived Google Trends-based dataset for worldwide Web Search, covering January 2004–September 2026. Manually modeled additions from the previous version have been removed. October 2026 is excluded because it is incomplete. The displayed figures are popularity points: the highest monthly search-interest value among the selected series is set to 10,000 points. All other values use the same scale; for example, 5,000 points represents half that relative-interest level. This is a rescaling of the common Google Trends-based index, not a count of people or searches. They are not absolute search counts, viewing figures, ratings or a complete ranking of every TV show. Separate query batches were linked using a shared reference topic. Series enter the ranking from their premiere month; monthly observations are interpolated for animation. A fresh download was attempted but Google rate-limited the request, so this version uses the preserved historical table rather than newly retrieved data. How Google Trends works: https://support.google.com/trends/ans... SERIES IN THIS VIDEO (78): 13 Reasons Why, Alice in Borderland, Alien: Earth, Andor, Better Call Saul, Black Mirror, Breaking Bad, Bridgerton, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Chernobyl, Cobra Kai, CSI, Daredevil, Desperate Housewives, Dexter, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Euphoria, Friends, Game of Thrones, Gilmore Girls, Glee, Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, Homeland, House M.D., House of Cards, House of the Dragon, How I Met Your Mother, Loki, Lost, Lucifer, Modern Family, Money Heist (La Casa de Papel), Mr. Robot, Narcos, Once Upon a Time, Orange Is the New Black, Outlander, Ozark, Peaky Blinders, Pretty Little Liars, Prison Break, Riverdale, Severance, Sherlock, Smallville, Sons of Anarchy, Squid Game, Stranger Things, Succession, Supernatural, Ted Lasso, Teen Wolf, The Bear, The Big Bang Theory, The Boys, The Crown, The Last of Us, The Mandalorian, The O.C., The Office (US), The Penguin, The Rings of Power, The Sopranos, The Umbrella Academy, The Vampire Diaries, The Walking Dead, The White Lotus, The Witcher, True Blood, Two and a Half Men, Vikings, WandaVision, Wednesday, Westworld, Yellowstone Tahnk you for watching!