Did your November come in gently, or are the cold winds of autumn blustering in where you live? No matter the answer, it was almost certainly a busy week for most readers, with the post-Halloween holiday season truly kicking off, not to mention an election on Tuesday.

We’ve got a list of streaming stories you might not have caught in the course of your comings and goings this week, and you can check out those assembled stories below!

Which streaming stories did you miss this week?

Netflix unveils new monthly active viewer metric

It’s been more than a year since Netflix first announced it would stop reporting subscriber totals with quarterly earnings reports. But now, the streamer is launching a new tool to help better demonstrate the reach of its ad-supported Standard with Ads plan.

On Wednesday, Netflix unveiled a new metric called monthly active viewers. This number takes the amount of users who have watched at least one minute of ad-supported content on the streamer, then multiplies that number by the average number of people in a household in a given region (based on internal research). Using this methodology, Netflix claims it now has 190 million monthly active viewers in the 12 countries where its ad tier is available.

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Netflix is a leading subscription-based video streaming service that offers on-demand access to an extensive library of over 3,000 movies, 2,000+ TV shows, and a growing collection of acclaimed Netflix originals. Renowned for producing groundbreaking content, Netflix has become a cultural powerhouse with hit originals like “Stranger Things,” “Wednesday,” “Squid Game,” “The Crown,” “Tiger King,” “Bridgerton,” “The Witcher,” and “Black Mirror.”

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The platform constantly updates its catalog, introducing fresh content alongside timeless classics and international hits. Netflix’s commitment to storytelling has also earned critical acclaim, with award-winning exclusives such as “Roma,” “Marriage Story,” “The Power of the Dog,” “Mank,” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” In 2023, their animated film “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, further solidifying Netflix’s reputation for high-quality content.

Recently, Netflix has expanded beyond standard movies and TV titles with the addition of video podcasts, and is also exploring a digital store that would offer third-party streamers within the app.

Netflix offers three plans – stream on 2 devices in HD with the “Standard with Ads” ($8.99) plan, on 2 devices in HD with the “Standard” ($19.99) plan, and 4 devices in up to 4K on the “Premium” ($26.99) plan.

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Election night ratings show narrow win for Fox News

On Tuesday, voters around the United States headed to the polls for the first time since the 2024 presidential election. The night was interpreted as a big win for Democrats across the country, but it was Fox News that won the evening from a coverage standpoint. As measured by Nielsen, Fox News ended the night with 2.92 million viewers.

MSNBC performed well on Election Night, too, attracting its largest primetime audience of 2025 with 2.88 million viewers. The news comes ahead of MSNBC's rebrand as MS NOW, which is itself a facet of the spinoff of most of Comcast’s cable channels into a new company called Versant.

CNN led among adults 25-54 during the evening, attracting 621,000 such viewers. In all, CNN attracted 1.91 million viewers, also good for its best night of the year.

‘Nobody Wants This’ Season 3 confirmed

Initial viewership data for Season 2 of the Netflix comedy series “Nobody Wants This” must have been pretty good. The show’s second season was released on Oct. 23, and Netflix has wasted little time in letting fans know whether or not the show would be returning for a new batch of episodes following the conclusion of Season 2.

On Tuesday, Netflix confirmed the show would officially return for a third season, which is set to arrive on the streamer sometime in 2026. The series follows an agnostic podcaster who falls in love with a rabbi, and their attempts to make the relationship work against a backdrop of what seems to be a hopeless mismatch.

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Netflix is a leading subscription-based video streaming service that offers on-demand access to an extensive library of over 3,000 movies, 2,000+ TV shows, and a growing collection of acclaimed Netflix originals. Renowned for producing groundbreaking content, Netflix has become a cultural powerhouse with hit originals like “Stranger Things,” “Wednesday,” “Squid Game,” “The Crown,” “Tiger King,” “Bridgerton,” “The Witcher,” and “Black Mirror.”

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The platform constantly updates its catalog, introducing fresh content alongside timeless classics and international hits. Netflix’s commitment to storytelling has also earned critical acclaim, with award-winning exclusives such as “Roma,” “Marriage Story,” “The Power of the Dog,” “Mank,” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” In 2023, their animated film “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, further solidifying Netflix’s reputation for high-quality content.

Recently, Netflix has expanded beyond standard movies and TV titles with the addition of video podcasts, and is also exploring a digital store that would offer third-party streamers within the app.

Netflix offers three plans – stream on 2 devices in HD with the “Standard with Ads” ($8.99) plan, on 2 devices in HD with the “Standard” ($19.99) plan, and 4 devices in up to 4K on the “Premium” ($26.99) plan.

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Comcast hires investment banks to explore Warner Bros. Discovery bid

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav sensed a bidding war in the wind in early fall, and it appears his premonitions are coming to fruition. WBD is open to merger and acquisition offers currently, and has entertained varying levels of interest from Paramount Skydance, Netflix, and other companies.

Comcast has reportedly hired Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to evaluate the feasibility of an offer for WBD’s movie studio and streaming segments. These parts of the company are due to be split off from WBD’s cable channels by 2026, and it appears Comcast would have serious interest in acquiring the non-linear assets that are left as a result.

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Peacock is a subscription video streaming service from NBCUniversal that includes original shows, blockbuster movies, and classic television series. Peacock is home to “Yellowstone,” “The Office,” and original hits like “Poker Face” and “Bel-Air.” You can also watch live sports and NBC programming, including the NFL, MLB, WWE, the Olympics, the Premier League, NASCAR, the French Open, college football and basketball, and the PGA Tour. Premium Plus subscribers can stream their local NBC feed in all 210 markets.

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Peacock also includes news, entertainment, sports, late-night, and reality from various NBCU properties, including NBC, Bravo, and E!. Additionally, Peacock has exclusives like “Below Deck: Down Under.” They also include live and on-demand access to Hallmark channels.

The company has acquired the rights to many classic shows, including “Parks and Recreation” and the entire Dick Wolf library, which includes “Law & Order” and “Chicago Fire.”

Peacock features weekly Sunday night NFL games during the regular season, available on the Premium and Premium Plus plans.

Peacock again raised prices on August 18, 2026, with the cost of plans increasing to $8.99 for the Select, $12.99 for Premium, and $19.99 for Premium Plus.

The service also features blockbusters and critically acclaimed films from Universal Pictures, Focus Features, DreamWorks Animation, Illumination, as well as content acquired from Hollywood’s biggest studios.

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