Need To Know

• Despite a minor week-to-week decline, “The Bold and the Beautiful” remained the highest-rated soap among Women 18-49 (0.20 rating) for the seventh time in nine weeks, including ties.
• “General Hospital” continued to see week-to-week increases in the key demos, setting season highs among Women 18-49 (0.19 rating) and Women 25-54 (0.27 rating).
• “Let’s Make a Deal,” “The View,” “Beyond the Gates” and “NBC News Daily” tied or set new season highs among Women 25-54.

During the week of November 17-21, 2025, “The Bold and the Beautiful” was again the top soap among Women 18-49, outperforming its lead-in, “The Young and the Restless,” for the seventh time in nine weeks, including ties. The half-hour drama held a +0.02 rating advantage over its hour-long sister series in the key sales demographic, while both shows were tied among Women 25-54 (0.34 rating), along with “The View” and the first half-hour of “Let’s Make a Deal.”

“The Bold and the Beautiful” was up +0.01 week-to-week among Women 25-54 (0.34 rating vs. 0.33 rating) and up +48,000 among Total Viewers (2.617 million vs. 2.569 million), with the soap attracting its second-largest audience of the young 2025-2026 television season.

While it also attracted its second-largest audience of the season with 2.925 million viewers, “The Young and the Restless” ranked 10th among Women 18-49 (0.18 rating), tying its second-lowest performance of the season. Ditto for Women 25-54, though the soap tied for fifth place in the demo along with “The Bold and the Beautiful,” “The View” and the first half-hour of “Let’s Make a Deal.”

After a two-week period during which its audience was without access due to the since-concluded Disney/YouTube TV carriage dispute, “General Hospital” set new season highs among Women 18-49 (0.19 rating) and Women 25-54 (0.27 rating). The soap was ahead of “The Young and the Restless” among Women 18-49 (0.19 rating vs. 0.18 rating), marking just the second time this season the ABC soap has outperformed its CBS counterpart. Among Total Viewers, the long-running drama marked a five-week high (1.933 million) and attracted its third-largest audience of the season. The show was up +130,000 viewers week-to-week.

Also marking a five-week high among Total Viewers, “Beyond the Gates” (1.614 million) set a new season high among Women 25-54 (0.26 rating). Its performance among Women 18-49 (0.14 rating) is a bit concerning, however. The soap was up +61,000 viewers week-to-week and up +341,000 over the year ago performance of former time slot occupant “The Talk” (1.614 million vs. 1.273 million).

“The View” tied its season high among Women 18-49 (), while setting new season highs among Women 25-54 (0.34 rating) and Total Viewers (2.483 million). The long-running talk show was up 0.02 year over year among Women 18-49 and Women 25-54. It was also up +0.01 week-to-week among Women 25-54.

With 1.447 million viewers tuning in, “GMA3” set a new season high among Total Viewers, Women 25-54 (0.22 rating) and Women 18-49 (0.16 rating). The program was on par with its year ago performance in the demos, while gaining +94,000 viewers compared to the same week last year.

Wrap-Up

What follows is a breakdown of how the daytime broadcast shows performed during the week of November 17-21, 2025 among Women 18-49 rating, Women 25-54 rating, Households and Total Viewers, including week-to-week and year-over-year comparisons.

Note*: Figures under the 2024 column for “Beyond the Gates” are compared to the performance of the former time slot occupant, “The Talk.” “TODAY with Jenna & Friends” is compared with the performance of its predecessor, “TODAY with Hoda & Jenna.” “GMA3” is compared with its predecessor, “GMA3: What You Need to Know.”

Additionally, 2024 comparisons, particularly Households and Total Viewers, were unavailable to this publication for most daytime broadcast shows, unlessed stated otherwise, until at least February 2025. Further, starting with the 2025-2026 television season, ratings are based on Live+Same Day Big Data + Panel, while figures under the 2024 column are based on Nielsen Live+Same Day Panel-only data.

Week of November 17-21, 2025 Rankers

Women 18-49 Rating

Rank / Show / Network	This Week	Last Week	2024*
1. The Price is Right 2 (CBS)	0.32	0.32	0.34
2. The Price is Right 1 (CBS)	0.29	0.28	0.30
3. TODAY 3rd Hour (NBC)	0.27	0.22	0.27
4. The View (ABC)	0.23	0.23	0.21
— Let’s Make a Deal 2 (CBS)	0.23	0.21	0.24
6. The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)	0.20	0.23	0.27
— TODAY with Jenna & Friends (NBC)	0.20	0.21	0.20*
— Let’s Make a Deal 1 (CBS)	0.20	0.17	0.22
9. General Hospital (ABC)	0.19	0.17	0.21
10. The Young and the Restless (CBS)	0.18	0.21	0.26
11. GMA3 (ABC)	0.16	N/A	0.15*
12. Beyond the Gates (CBS)	0.14	0.15	0.17*
13. NBC News Daily (NBC)	0.14	0.12	0.16

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Women 25-54 Rating

Rank / Show / Network	This Week	Last Week	2024*
1. The Price is Right 2 (CBS)	0.52	0.56	0.52
2. The Price is Right 1 (CBS)	0.49	0.51	0.47
3. TODAY 3rd Hour (NBC)	0.39	0.36	0.40
4. Let’s Make a Deal 2 (CBS)	0.37	0.36	0.36
5. The Young and the Restless (CBS)	0.34	0.36	0.47
— The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)	0.34	0.33	0.41
— The View (ABC)	0.34	0.33	0.32
— Let’s Make a Deal 1 (CBS)	0.34	0.31	0.32
9. TODAY with Jenna & Friends (NBC)	0.29	0.30	0.31*
10. General Hospital (ABC)	0.27	0.22	0.31
11. Beyond the Gates (CBS)	0.26	0.25	0.25*
12. NBC News Daily (NBC)	0.23	0.19	0.24
13. GMA3 (ABC)	0.22	N/A	0.22*

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Households

Rank / Show / Network	This Week	Last Week	2024*
1. The Price is Right 2 (CBS)	2.5	2.5	N/A*
2. The Price is Right 1 (CBS)	2.3	2.3	N/A*
3. The Young and the Restless (CBS)	1.9	1.8	N/A*
4. The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)	1.7	1.6	N/A*
5. The View (ABC)	1.6	1.5	1.7
6. Let’s Make a Deal 2 (CBS)	1.5	1.5	N/A*
7. Let’s Make a Deal 1 (CBS)	1.3	1.3	N/A*
— TODAY 3rd Hour (NBC)	1.3	N/A	1.3
9. General Hospital (ABC)	1.2	1.1	N/A*
10. Beyond the Gates (CBS)	1.0	1.0	0.8*
11. GMA3 (ABC)	0.9	0.8	N/A*
— NBC News Daily (NBC)	0.9	0.9	0.8
13. TODAY with Jenna & Friends (NBC)	0.8	N/A	0.9*

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Total Viewers (In Millions)

Rank / Show / Network	This Week	Last Week	2024*
1. The Price is Right 2 (CBS)	4,197	4,319	N/A*
2. The Price is Right 1 (CBS)	3,739	3,853	N/A*
3. The Young and the Restless (CBS)	2,925	2,860	N/A*
4. The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)	2,617	2,569	N/A*
5. Let’s Make a Deal 2 (CBS)	2,532	2,541	N/A*
6. The View (ABC)	2,483	2,345	2,448
7. Let’s Make a Deal 1 (CBS)	2,154	2,163	N/A*
8. TODAY 3rd Hour (NBC)	1,964	N/A	1,892
9. General Hospital (ABC)	1,933	1,803	N/A*
10. Beyond the Gates (CBS)	1,614	1,553	1,273*
11. GMA3 (ABC)	1,447	1,311	1,353*
12. NBC News Daily (NBC)	1,320	1,356	1,150
13. TODAY with Jenna & Friends (NBC)	1,317	N/A	1,353*

Source

The numbers above are calculated using Live+Same Day, Big Data + Panel viewing and DVR playback, defined as 3:00 a.m.-3:00 a.m., and are courtesy of Nielsen. Ratings are the percentage of U.S. TV viewers who tuned in to a specific program.

Beginning August 31, 2020, national ratings include Out-of-Home (OOH) viewing. Previously, ratings did not include OOH viewing. Averages are based on regular telecasts.

LEGEND

P = Premiere	R = Repeat	S = Special
NR = Not Rated / Not Ranked	N/A = Not Available	* denotes further information

Summary (Preemptions/Schedule Changes)*

• “NBC News Daily” aired for just 46 minutes on Tuesday, November 18, due to NBC News coverage of the bipartisan bill being passed by Congress to release Jeffrey Epstein files.
• Nielsen otherwise reported no other preemptions and/or schedule changes during the week of November 17-21, 2025.

Note: The post ‘General Hospital’ Hits Season Highs In Key Demos, ‘The Young And The Restless’ Ranks 10th Among Women 18-49 – RATINGS first appeared on Soap Opera Network.

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B&B:

This was Luna swan song and it paid off slighty in households. The total viewers didn't increase much for such a big week. And drops in a key demo isn't good.

YR:

18-49 demo is alarming. 10th? Yikes!

GH:

Up in all categories. I'm enjoying General Hospital the most of all the soap operas currently on air, including online.

BTG:

Still stuck with mediocre numbers. In my opinion, it is deserved.

Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by Soapsuds

Thanks Errol for the numbers.😊☺️

Overall, happy with the performance of Beyond the Gates (although, it deserves more), but the Women 18-49 Rating is disappointing.

Looney's death gave them a bump.

I think people wanted to see if she actually died for real this time lol

2 hours ago, Liberty City said:

Overall, happy with the performance of Beyond the Gates (although, it deserves more), but the Women 18-49 Rating is disappointing.

I agree with you but if you look at how B&B and Y&R performed week over week and how they performed last year, the demo ratings for BTG are not terrible compared to the others dropping pretty steeply.

3 hours ago, dragonflies said:

Looney's death gave them a bump.

I think people wanted to see if she actually died for real this time lol

Same.

I still ain't sure if she is.

Wow GH beating Y&R in one demo - is this the first time? I love to see competition which drives change and quality (hopefully).