'Game of Thrones' laid waste to all Twitter's #7FavTVShows rivals
LOS ANGELES -- TV refuses to be outdone by movies. It's true in the current culture and it's true on Twitter.
A day after the #fav7films hashtag dominated Twitter, along came #7favTVShows. And while your small screen favorites had a slightly smaller impact online, they still trended No. 1 in the U.S. for a good chunk of Tuesday.
So we went to the social media research film and digital media consultancy Fizziology to find out which TV shows got the most mentions -- and to divine whatever else they could. They're good at that.
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Among the 75,710 uses of the hashtag between 12 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. ET, it should be little surprise that Game of Thrones got the most mentions. Here are your ...
Top 20 Shows:
1. Game of Thrones: 12,247 2. Breaking Bad: 10,299 3. Friends: 8,414 4. The Walking Dead: 8,081 5. The Office: 6,453 6. Lost: 5,354 7. Pretty Little Liars: 4,881 8. OITNB: 4,349 9. The Wire: 4,229 10. Teen Wolf: 4,147 11. Sherlock: 4,113 12. Seinfeld: 4,081 13. Supernatural: 3,885 14. Stranger Things: 3,778 15. Dr. Who: 3,663 16. AHS: 3,628 17. HIMYM: 3,425 18. The Sopranos: 3,370 19. Gossip Girl: 3,176 20. The Simpsons: 3,156
Curious trends
Doctor Who, the oldest show in the top 20, premiered on Nov. 23, 1963 while the most recent (Stranger Things) debuted on July 15, 2016.
Shondaland shows didn’t appear in the top 20, and Scandal saw the least of that showrunner's stable of hits. Grey's Anatomy had 2,673 mentions, HTGAWM came in with 1,458 and Scandal got 1,251.
Overall, newer shows (that premiered within the last decade) saw more volume than classics. This was the opposite trend we saw in film, in which just 13% of the 15 most mentioned #Fav7Films came out in the past 10 years (compared to 53% of the top 15 TV shows).
UK Takeover: Dr. Who and Sherlock both appeared in the top 20 most mentioned shows (with 3.6K and 4K mentions, respectively) and Orphan Black (2.7K) and Downton Abby (521) were also strongly represented.
Teen-friendly shows dominated the overall conversation: Pretty Little Liars, Teen Wolf, Supernatural and Gossip Girl all appeared in the top 20 shows. MTV's Scream just missed the top 20 shows and had 2,644 mentions (ahead of critically acclaimed shows like Mad Men, with 2,122 mentions, and The X-Files, with 2,159 mentions).
Top Nostalgic Millennial shows: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1,078 mentions), Boy Meets World (655), Full House (607), Freaks and Geeks (606).
Top Classic Shows: Cheers (757), The Twilight Zone (687), Golden Girls (658), MASH (338), I Love Lucy (374), The Mary Tyler Moore Show (137)
The Bachelor saw 10% more mentions than UnREAL.
Top Animated Shows: The Simpsons (3,154), South Park (2,018), Family Guy (1,916), Rick and Morty (1,232), Futurama (987).
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Josh Dickey is Mashable's Entertainment Editor, leading Mashable's TV, music, gaming and sports reporters as well as writing movie features and reviews.Josh has been the Film Editor at Variety, Entertainment Editor at The Associated Press and Managing Editor at TheWrap.com.A finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club's Best Entertainment Feature in 2015 for "Everyone is Altered: The Secret Hollywood Procedure that Fooled Us for Years," Josh received his BA in Journalism from The University of Minnesota.In between screenings, he can be found skating longboards, shredding guitar and wandering the streets of his beloved downtown Los Angeles.
