{"id":375791,"date":"2026-08-24T02:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=375791"},"modified":"2026-09-30T08:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:32:47","slug":"everybody-loves-raymond-and-the-golden-girls-still-beat-newer-comedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/everybody-loves-raymond-and-the-golden-girls-still-beat-newer-comedies\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody Loves Raymond and The Golden Girls still beat newer comedies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Classic sitcoms like Everybody Loves Raymond<\/em> and The Golden Girls<\/em> still draw huge streaming and broadcast audiences, and in plenty of cases they\u2019re beating newer shows. Everybody Loves Raymond\u2019s<\/em> 30th Anniversary Reunion<\/strong> pulled in 6.32 million viewers, making it the biggest primetime entertainment special of the season. The original Everybody Loves Raymond<\/em> series also remains one of Paramount+<\/a>\u2019s most-streamed titles in the U.S. After Betty White died, viewers went back to The Golden Girls<\/em> in force too, streaming all 180 episodes for 384 million minutes on Hulu<\/a> in a single week, according to Nielsen. That was enough to push the show onto Nielsen\u2019s Top 10 acquired list.<\/p>\n

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If you use streaming for comfort viewing, these older comedies still hold up. Nostalgia helps, sure, but so do predictability, character-driven humor<\/strong>, and the fact that they\u2019re easy to rewatch. That mix keeps them popular with baby boomers, Gen X, millennials, and younger viewers. Networks know it, which is why they keep coming back with reunions, anniversary specials, and reboots, even if most of the reporting still stays narrowly fixed on U.S. sitcoms and age-based audience splits.<\/p>\n\n

You can watch Everybody Loves Raymond<\/em> on Paramount+ in the U.S. and The Golden Girls<\/em> on Hulu.<\/p>\n

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Classic sitcoms like Everybody Loves Raymond and The Golden Girls still draw huge streaming and broadcast audiences, and in plenty of cases they\u2019re beating newer shows. Everybody Loves Raymond\u2019s 30th Anniversary Reunion pulled in 6.32 million viewers, making it the biggest primetime entertainment special of the season. The original Everybody Loves Raymond series also remains … Continue reading “Everybody Loves Raymond and The Golden Girls still beat newer comedies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9336,"featured_media":375790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6869],"class_list":["post-375791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-streaming-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375792,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375791\/revisions\/375792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375791"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=375791"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=375791"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=375791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}