Madam Secretary

Madam Secretary's top 10 neighbors span journalists, actors, TV shows, a politician, a comedian, a brand, and a government organization — with no single subcategory dominating and scores compressed into a narrow band from 0.64 to 0.67.

The shape is flat: the top neighbor, Debra Messing (0.67), sits only 0.03 points above the tenth, HelloFresh US (0.64). Within that band, journalists and TV personalities form the most consistent thread — NBC Nightly News (0.67), TODAY (0.67), and CBS Sunday Morning (0.65) are all broadcast staples, and Ann Curry (0.65) adds a fourth news-adjacent figure. Two actors appear — Messing and Marlee Matlin (0.66) — alongside politician Mazie Hirono (0.66), comedian Bob Newhart (0.65), and the lone brand entry, HelloFresh. The only government-category neighbor is US Department of the Interior (0.64), which rounds out a set that is genuinely mixed rather than anchored to any one kind. Notably, no other TV Show subcategory entry besides NBC Nightly News and TODAY appears in the top 10 — the two fellow TV Shows are both news programs, not drama or entertainment peers.

The flat, cross-kind composition suggests an audience defined less by genre loyalty than by a broad, civically oriented media diet that spans news, public affairs, and mainstream entertainment.