We are now deep into October, and the Samba TV Wrap report gets spookier by the week, chock full of creepy characters, thrillers and Halloween-themed programming. Riding high on this Spooky Season wave is Netflix, which is responsible for 80% of this week’s Top 10 – including its seventh straight week with a chart topper, and 18th in the past 19 weeks.
“Monster: The Ed Gein Story” kicks things off with its second straight week at the top of the chart. The third season of Netflix’s “Monster” anthology series is proving that even the most grisly of subjects can make for compelling TV (at least to some viewers).
Netflix domination continues with “The Woman in Cabin 10” debuting in second place as 2 million households watched the film over the weekend. The psychological thriller stars Keira Knightley as a journalist who witnesses a possible murder while on assignment aboard a luxury yacht.
“Tulsa King,” one of only two non-Netflix titles this week, lands in third. The crime drama, now in its third series, has been one of the biggest hits from Paramount+ and its creator, Taylor Sheridan.
Switching back to Netflix, the viral dating hit “Love Is Blind” moves up five spots now that more viewers have had a chance to watch the show’s ninth season.
You can’t have Halloween without some demons, and Netflix is more than happy to provide them in the form of the year’s biggest streaming success, “KPop Demon Hunters.” That’s 15 straight weeks in the Top 10 for the animated movie, for those keeping track. Its longevity in the charts is a positive sign of how it will fare as it heads back to theaters for Halloween.
The other non-Netflix title on this week’s chart lands at number six, and it comes from Amazon Prime Video. “Play Dirty,” the Mark Wahlberg heist caper, has been a modest hit for Amazon, although it drops three spots from its debut last week.
The rest of the chart belongs to Netflix, and we can divide these four programs into two categories: hit shows and baking challenges.
“Wayward” is the first of those hits. The mystery centered on a rural Vermont school falls from second to seventh place this week in its third week on the chart. In ninth is “Black Rabbit,” the high-adrenaline thriller starring Jude Law and Jason Bateman. The miniseries has been on the chart for four straight weeks, including two weeks in the top spot.
On to the baking. Up first is the Halloween-themed season of the popular show “Is It Cake?” which lands in the eighth spot. Rounding out our Top 10 is “The Great British Baking Show,” the rare Netflix series that follows a weekly release schedule.
Over on linear, it’s “Voice” season, as NBC’s signing competition claims the top two spots this week.
“The Voice” fends off another strong week from ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars,” which has remained in the top three for several weeks as its 34th season grooves along.
“Matlock” on CBS gets a post-football Sunday bump as it returns for its second season, landing in fourth this week. The legal drama will return to its regular Thursday night slot this week.
NBC has a Windy City theme running through three entries this week: “Chicago Med” and “Chicago Fire” are fifth and sixth, respectively, while guest host Amy Poehler, of Chicago’s Second City, helps “Saturday Night Live” come in eighth.
The rest of the chart belongs to “Wheel of Fortune,” which claims spots seven, nine and ten.
The Wrap Report provides an exclusive first look at the most watched movies and TV series from the past week across both streaming and linear television sourced from viewership trends collected from Samba TV’s panel of more than 3 million households, balanced to the U.S. Census.
