Television
Television by the numbers.
242 seasons across 157 shows—this is the quantitative breakdown. What I watch, how I rate it, where in the world it comes from, and the rhythm of a watching year.
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The corpus
Lifetime
Across 157 total shows, 52 of which I've actively watched at some point this year.
Rating distribution by level
Seasons, shows, and episodes are rated and counted separately with the exception of miniseries, which are double-counted (season and show). Episode logging only began this year.
Type
Taste
People
Actors — logged vs. rated
Top-10 billed and ≥3 episodes, so a one-off guest spot doesn’t count. Highest-rated counts distinct shows.
Creators — logged vs. rated
Highest-rated gated on a minimum of 2 distinct shows.
Where it comes from
World cinema lean
I rate non-English and non-US shows against domestic ones—language is the stronger signal; country reinforces it.
Language × country
The joint view: which languages pair with which countries (language leads).
Languages — logged vs. rated
Countries — logged vs. rated
How it reached me
Networks — logged vs. rated
Each show counts once under its canonical primary network (HBO and Max merged, and so on). Highest-rated is a gated raw average across ≥3 shows.
By conglomerate — logged vs. rated
Each show rolls up to the conglomerate that owns its network (else independent).
Shows across networks
Switched home
- 9-1-1Fox → ABC
- Girls5evaPeacock → Netflix
- YouLifetime → Netflix
Carried on both
- AdultsFX + Hulu
- Alien: EarthFX + Hulu
- House of VillainsE! + Peacock
- Love StoryFX + Hulu
- ShōgunFX + Hulu
- TRON: UprisingDisney XD + Disney Channel
Shows tied to more than one canonical network. An arrow (→) marks a known change of home; a plus (+) marks a show carried on both at once (a linear-plus-streamer simulcast).
When I watch
Season pace by day of year
Cumulative seasons finished by each date of the year, per year.
Seasons by month
| Category | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Total | Typical year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 0 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 22 | 8.5 |
| Feb | 0 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 24 | 9.5 |
| Mar | 0 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 24 | 9.9 |
| Apr | 0 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 24 | 11.4 |
| May | 0 | 13 | 8 | 14 | 35 | 15.5 |
| Jun | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 4.1 |
| Jul | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 3.5 |
| Aug | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 5.0 |
| Sep | 0 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 11 | 5.5 |
| Oct | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 2.9 |
| Nov | 0 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 22 | 10.8 |
| Dec | 5 | 19 | 12 | 0 | 36 | 15.6 |
Dashed line = a typical year, averaging full years (2024, 2025) plus 2026 (completed months); thin data from 2023 is excluded from the average.
Seasons by weekday
| Category | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Total | Typical year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 1 | 19 | 13 | 10 | 43 | 16.7 |
| Tue | 0 | 13 | 19 | 4 | 36 | 13.0 |
| Wed | 0 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 28 | 11.2 |
| Thu | 1 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 40 | 15.4 |
| Fri | 2 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 34 | 12.0 |
| Sat | 1 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 23 | 8.6 |
| Sun | 1 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 32 | 13.0 |
Dashed line = a typical year, averaging full years (2024, 2025) plus 2026 so far; thin data from 2023 is excluded from the average.
Episodes logged by month
Standalone episode reviews by month—episode-level logging only began this year.
Methodology
- Ratings, watch dates, and the show/season/episode structure come from Serializd; genres, networks, cast, and creators from TMDB.
- Every “how I rate it” figure ranks on season ratings. The headline average and the genre baseline are the mean across all rated seasons. The people and network rankings fold each show to its own season mean first, counted once, so a long-running series can’t swamp them.
- Networks are canonicalized before counting—HBO and Max are one destination, Showtime rolls into Paramount+, and each show counts once under its primary network.
- “Highest rated” lists guard against thin samples two ways—a minimum-count gate, so a single 5★ show can’t top the chart, and Bayesian shrinkage, which eases a small sample toward the overall average until enough ratings accumulate. Both apply anywhere an average rating is ranked.
- Actors count only top-10-billed roles with at least three episodes, so a one-scene guest spot doesn’t inflate the list.