“The Watcher” Brings Home Another No. 1 Nielsen Spot for Ryan Murphy; “Halloween Ends” cracks the top 10 on Peacock

The Observer ride to Nielsen’s streaming ratings win for the week of October 10-16, giving producer Ryan Murphy his second top show less than a month after the blockbuster release dahmer.

With 2.355 billion streaming minutes, the series more than doubled its viewership in second place The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power on PrimeVideo.

Based on a true story and loosely based on a New York magazine article The Observer With Naomi Watts, Bobby Cannavale, Jennifer Coolidge and Mia Farrow. The thriller series was co-created with Murphy by Ian Brennan, whose rich deal with Netflix recently began to bear fruit. An additional adjustment by Netflix helped the show attract even more viewers given Nielsen’s Monday-to-Sunday methodology: a release on a Thursday, rather than the usual Friday slot. To illustrate the potential of the Netflix algorithm, approximately 36% of the observer Spectators saw too dahmer.

NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock debuts on the Nielsen charts with the day-and-date release of Halloween ends. The 13th episode of Halloween The franchise racked up 717 million minutes of viewership in its opening weekend while grossing $49.4 million at the box office. The streaming audience earned the #8 title on Nielsen’s overall list and #1 on the All Movies list. About 35% of the film’s viewers were between the ages of 35 and 49, and 25% were between the ages of 18 and 34. The gender distribution was evenly split between men and women.

Not far behind Halloween ends At number 9 on the chart was another original film, a mystery thriller happiest girl in the world with Mila Kunis. The Netflix release attracted 696 million streaming minutes.

In a meticulous battle in a fantasy series, Rings of Power put some distance between yourself and HBO Max game of thrones forerunner home of the dragon. ringsWhoever dropped the season finale got just over 1.1 billion streaming minutes for its eight episodes, compared to dragon960 million minutes for nine episodes. The shows have switched locations for the past two months, although the comparison is imprecise dragon‘s large linear audience and various showtimes. It’s averaging 29 million weekly viewers, making it HBO’s best new original.

Nielsen’s weekly streaming ratings track US viewership on a TV screen only (ie, mobile devices are not counted) for Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, Peacock and Prime Video.

Here is the complete top 10 with provider, title, number of episodes (1=movie) and total minutes watched: