Netflix has been credited for boosting the viewership of TV shows in the past, from "Breaking Bad" to "Schitt's Creek."
The creator of the former, Vince Gilligan, said in 2013 that the series wouldn't "have even lasted beyond season two" without the streaming giant.
Now, with people at home and social distancing, both current and concluded TV shows are seeing a rise in viewership thanks to Netflix, Hulu, HBO Now, and other streaming services.
The streaming search engine Reelgood compiled a list of the top shows that its 4 million users have tracked starting March 16, when widespread social-distancing guidelines started to be implemented throughout the US. It then calculated the shares of first-time streams for those top titles and ranked them accordingly.
The list includes "The Office," which has already found a big audience on Netflix but is leaving the service at the end of the year for NBCUniversal's upcoming Peacock streamer; the classic HBO drama "The Wire"; and the "Breaking Bad" spinoff series, "Better Call Saul."
The top 19 shows that people are watching for the first time right now, according to Reelgood, are below:
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