South Korea: The KBS2 romantic drama Love on the Menu once topped the ratings charts in South Korea in September. Airing every Saturday and Sunday, the series averaged 15.33% viewership in September, a significant improvement from its August ratings. Meanwhile, KBS Joy’s OK! Let’s Get Divorced! averaged just 0.25% viewership, far below the competition.
Netflix: On the streaming side, season one of the Turkish psychological thriller series Not a Stranger reigned supreme among all non-English language programs on Netflix. In September, the series achieved 6.46 million views and remained in the top 10 of Netflix’s charts for four weeks. On the other hand, the romantic horror comedy limited series Spooky in Love came in dead last for the month, averaging only one million views.
United States: Viewing figures for American daytime dramas remained largely unchanged in September. For more than three decades, CBS’s The Young and the Restless has dominated the ratings among daytime dramas, and continued its reign in September, scoring 3.12 million viewers. Ratings for fellow CBS soap The Bold and the Beautiful remained stable, and the series averaged 2.71 million viewers in September.
CBS’s Beyond the Gates has remained at the bottom among daytime drama ratings since its February 2025 debut. In September, the soap averaged 1.68 million viewers, consistent with its average figures. Lastly, the longest-running American daytime drama currently in production, ABC’s General Hospital, maintained stable ratings. Throughout September, the soap achieved 1.86 million viewers, matching its year-to-date ratings. While ratings for the three legacy soaps are far lower than they were in their prime, these figures show stability for General Hospital, The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Beyond the Gates.
