‘Stranger Things’ streaming is hot for Netflix; ’60 Minutes’ leads TV network ratings

The fourth season of “Stranger Things” was the most streamed program on Netflix for the second consecutive week and sixth time in the seven weeks it has been available. “The Final Straw,” also on ABC, was second among the week’s premieres, averaging 3.007 million viewers, 17th for the week, including trailing two cable programs, and first in its 9-10 p.m. Sunday time slot. Fox’s “Baseball Night in America” was the top-ranked prime-time sporting event for the second consecutive week, averaging 2.636 million viewers, 25th for the week, first among Saturday programs and Fox’s ratings leader. The top 20 prime-time programs were: the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes”; NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” and “Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular”; the Wednesday and Sunday editions of the CBS alternative series “Big Brother”; six ABC alternative programs — “Celebrity Family Feud,” “Generation Gap,” a rerun of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” “Press Your Luck,” “The Final Straw” and “The $100,000 Pyramid”; reruns of four CBS scripted programs — “FBI,” “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Young Sheldon” and “FBI: International”; reruns of the NBC series “Chicago Med” and “Chicago Fire”; and three editions of the Fox News Channel political talk show “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” Each of the top four prime-time cable programs were editions of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” led by the Thursday edition, which averaged 3.233 million viewers, 11th overall. The cable top 20 consisted of 12 Fox News Channel weeknight political talk shows — four broadcasts each of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” “Hannity” and “The Ingraham Angle”; the Sunday Fox News Channel political talk show “Life, Liberty & Levin”; the two-hour July 4 special “Fox News Presents: An Independence Day Celebration”; the Hallmark Channel movie “My Grown-Up Christmas List”; the ESPN “Sunday Night Baseball” game between the Yankees and Red Sox; the first two hourlong segments of the USA Network professional wrestling program “WWE Raw” July 4; the TLC dating series “90 Day Fiance”; and History’s UFO investigation series, “The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.”