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Streaming Ratings Oct. 13-19, 2025

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With the publicity machine behind Stranger Things starting to ramp up ahead of the final season, the show re-entered the Nielsen streaming charts in mid-October.

The series ranked eighth among original streaming shows for the week of Oct. 13-19, logging 393 million minutes of viewing time for the four currently available seasons. That week saw the reveal of running times for the final season’s first batch of episodes and a Time cover story that signaled the start of advance press for the series. Stranger Things hadn’t been on the Nielsen charts since late June, when it made the rankings for four weeks after Netflix announced the release schedule for season five.

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David Harbour and Millie Bobby Brown in 'Stranger Things' season five.

Monster: The Ed Gein Story held the No. 1 overall spot for a third straight week, though its 979 million minutes of viewing represented a 58 percent decline week to week. The former BBC/PBS series Poldark, which joined the Netflix catalog a week earlier, jumped into the rankings at second overall with 954 million minutes. Aidan Turner, who starred in Poldark, also plays a key role in season three of The Diplomat, which premiered Oct. 16 and came in fourth for the week with 911 million minutes.

Netflix’s coming-of-age drama Boots (798 million minutes) saw substantial growth in its second week, improving by 84 percent from the previous seven days. The streamer’s true-crime documentary The Perfect Neighbor also had 798 million viewing minutes, leading the movie rankings and (at least for this week) displacing KPop Demon Hunters from the top spot.

Nielsen’s streaming ratings cover viewing on TV sets only and don’t include minutes watched on computers or mobile devices. The ratings only measure U.S. audiences, not those in other countries. The top streaming titles for Oct. 13-19, 2025, are below.

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Sabrina Carpenter's 'SNL' Sketches Ranked (Oct. 18, 2025 Episode)
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Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘SNL’ Sketches Ranked (Oct. 18, 2025 Episode)

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Here’s a breakdown of every ‘SNL’ sketch with Carpenter on Oct. 18.

Host and musical guest Sabrina Carpenter and Veronika Slowikowska appear during the ‘Appliance Store’ sketch on ‘SNL’ on Oct. 18, 2025.

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Sabrina Carpenter hosted SNL for the first time and starred in eight sketches that made it to air Saturday night (Oct. 18) in an episode that seamlessly paired with the pop star’s brand of humor.

With a background in comedy television — a decade ago, a then-teenaged Carpenter was the lead on the Boy Meets World spinoff Girl Meets World — and with some familiarity with the SNL stage (as a music performer twice, and with one “Domingo” sketch in her pocket), the singer/actress was poised for success pulling double duty as host and musical guest Saturday night.

And she delivered, from the cold opening all the way through her final sketch of the night — with two playful performances sandwiched into the schedule (a youthfully staged “Manchild,” plus an uncensored “Nobody’s Son”).

With a short and sweet monologue, Carpenter poked fun at her Man’s Best Friend album cover and her “horn-dog pop star” persona — “I’m not just horny, I’m also turned on, and I’m sexually charged, and I love to read; my favorite book is the encyclopedia… it’s so big and it’s hard” — and throughout the episode portrayed roles ranging from a singing washing machine to a tween boy podcaster to an entrepreneur peddling a pillow that looks like a vagina. (Audience reports from the dress rehearsal say there were also a couple sketches with Carpenter that didn’t make it to broadcast, including one about the “perfect man” and a Salem witch-themed bit.)

Here’s a ranking of every sketch Carpenter was in on the show that aired Saturday night. Watch all eight sketches from the Oct. 18 episode of SNL below.

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Paramount+'s Ozzy Osbourne Doc Arriving Oct. 7
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Paramount+’s Ozzy Osbourne Doc Arriving Oct. 7

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Ozzy Osbourne and his family pull back the curtain on the final years of his life in the Paramount+ documentary OZZY: NO ESCAPE FROM NOW, the first trailer for which is out now. The Tania Alexander-directed film will be released Oct. 7, less than three months after Osbourne’s death at the age of 76.

“The thing about getting old — I used to take pills for fun. Now I take them to stay alive,” Osbourne says in the trailer for the doc, which spotlights his struggles with significant health problems and his efforts to get back into the recording studio and onto the live stage.

Alexander began work on the documentary in early 2022 while Osbourne was making his Grammy-winning album Patient Number 9 with producer Andrew Watt. She also captured the lead-up to Osbourne’s final solo and Black Sabbath performances on July 5 in his hometown of Birmingham, England, which featured an array of the biggest names in hard rock and metal.

NO ESCAPE FROM NOW is loaded with appearances from Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan and Slash, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Tool’s Maynard James Keenan, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan and longtime Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde, among many others.

“This film is an honest account of what has happened to Ozzy during the last few years,” his wife and manager Sharon Osbourne said previously. “It shows how hard things have been for him and the courage he has shown while dealing with a number of serious health issues, including Parkinson’s. It’s about the reality of his life now. We have worked with a production team we trust and have allowed them the freedom to tell the story openly. We hope that story will inspire people that are facing similar issues to Ozzy.”

Also arriving on Oct. 7 is Osbourne’s second memoir, Last Rites, which will be released by Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group.

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IFC Gives Dog-POV Horror Movie 'Good Boy' Wide Release Oct. 3
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IFC Gives Dog-POV Horror Movie ‘Good Boy’ Wide Release Oct. 3

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Looks like someone may be barking his way to box-office glory.

IFC just expanded the October 3 theatrical run of Ben Leonberg’s SXSW hit “Good Boy” from limited to a full wide release. Told entirely from the dog’s point of view, the 72-minute horror film stars Leonberg’s Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, Indy. The exact number of screens is yet to be determined, but IFC is bullish on its mass appeal. It’s a title that can also follow in the footsteps of several other recent successes from the company.

Rebranded as Independent Film Company (IFC) earlier this year, IFC now seems to have a bona fide hit on its hands. Since the trailer’s debut August 18, it has racked up 1 million views (with another 1.5 million views for the trailer as posted on IGN’s account).

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(Also: Since the trailer dropped, searches for “Does the dog in Good Boy die?” spiked by more than 2,000 percent.)

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“We’re a bespoke company and we really pay attention to what people want to see,” Scott Shooman, head of IFC Entertainment Group (which oversees IFC, Shudder, and RLJE Films), told IndieWire. “Last year was our second-best theatrical year ever and we want to continue that. We see an opportunity as the studios are moving to three- and four-quadrant business for the indies to try and find interesting, noisy product and try to make it as big as possible.”

“Good Boy” has a playbook to follow: IFC’s “Late Night with the Devil” and “In a Violent Nature” both reached around 1,400 screens in 2024, grossing $10 million and $4.2 million, respectively. They’re also the number #4 and #16 on the list of highest-grossing films in IFC’s history.

The top spot on that list is occupied by 2002’s “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” with an untouchable $241 million box office. However, Shooman indicated he doesn’t consider it to be a true IFC movie since it only handled distribution in a service deal. That would make the second title on that list, Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood,” with its $25 million gross as IFC’s biggest hit.

After former president Arianna Bocco left the company in March 2023, Shooman was installed shortly thereafter. Since then, the company sunset its genre imprint IFC Midnight in favor of the company’s streamer, Shudder, which now represents all of the company’s horror content. “Good Boy” will bear both the IFC and Shudder logos, but its streaming date is TBD.

“We have different windows for different types of films, and we’re working on that for ‘Good Boy’ as we speak,” Shooman said. “We never want to pre-announce a date prematurely. What we can say is we hope everyone sees it in theaters on October 3rd, and that’s really where we’re pointing people right now.”

“Good Boy” may follow in the footsteps of the R-rated “Late Night with the Devil” and the unrated “In a Violent Nature,” but it also is something that those gory movies were not. “It’s a PG-13 film,” Shooman said. “I don’t think there’s any age limit on loving dogs.”

Shooman is confident that audiences will continue to awww when they learn more about how Leonberg made the film. “It’s exactly the story of how you’d want an independent movie to have come together,” he said. “Ben made it with his own dog. This is his dog! This is not a stage dog, and it’s just like this is the magic and why we all got into this business.”

Additional reporting by Brian Welk.

“Good Boy” releases in theaters from IFC on Friday, October 3.

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