‘The Watcher’ Repeats Atop Nielsen Streaming Chart; ‘House Of The Dragon’ Finishes Strong, ‘School For Good And Evil’ Tops 1B Minutes Of Viewing In Debut
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The Watcher surged 10% in its second week on Netflix, collecting 2.6 billion minutes of viewing to repeat at No. 1 on Nielsen’s U.S. streaming chart for the week of October 17 to 23.
The Ryan Murphy-produced thriller series easily outdistanced another Netflix title, The School for Good and Evil, which finished second with about 1.06 billion viewing minutes.
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Just behind it in the No. 3 spot was House of the Dragon, with its season finale hitting HBO Max for three hours during the week. The Game of Thrones prequel pulled in a bit more than 1 billion minutes of viewing for the third time in a single week during its 10-episode run. Since the show’s debut last August, it had been jockeying with Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The latter has now fallen out of the Top 10 overall chart, remaining at No. 5 in Nielsen’s all-original rankings.
Not all titles on the chart were brand-new, of course. The Gilmore Girls saw viewership jump 26% from the previous week, hitting 792 million viewing minutes and capturing the highest concentration of 18-to-34-year-olds, at 70%.
Here’s the full Top 10, with the number of episodes (1=movie) and minutes of viewing.
Netflix | The Watcher | 7 | 2.595B |
Netflix | The School for Good and Evil | 1 | 1.058B |
HBO Max | House Of The Dragon | 10 | 1.013B |
Netflix | The Sinner | 31 | 935M |
Netflix | The Blacklist | 196 | 807M |
Netflix | NCIS | 339 | 796M |
Netflix | Gilmore Girls | 153 | 792M |
Netflix | Cocomelon | 18 | 757M |
Netflix | Love Is Blind | 31 | 683M |
Netflix | Unsolved Mysteries (2020) | 17 | 672M |
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