Spooky Stories Climb the Streaming Top 10, But ‘Penguin’ Still Reigns Supreme | Chart

The run-up to Halloween is peak spooky season, and this week’s Samba TV Weekly Wrap Report proves that streaming audiences are flocking to scary fare. Yet despite an influx of horror flicks, thrillers, and serial killer content, none of it can scare “The Penguin” out of the top spot.

Collin Farrell’s turn as Gotham City’s bird-like crime boss has held the top spot for six consecutive weeks and shows no sign of stopping, with two more episodes to go in the Max/HBO series.

Now, let’s count the creepies. “Woman of the Hour,” in second place again this week, tells the how-can-this-be-real-life story of serial killer Rodney Alcala appearing as a contestant on “The Dating Game” in the 1970s. Newcomer “Don’t Move” is No. 4 this week, with 1.1 million households watching the Netflix horror movie in the first three days it was available.

Director M. Night Shyamalan, no stranger to the mysterious and spooky, enters the chart with his latest feature film, “Trap.” A summer theatrical release, it comes in at No. 8 this week following its addition to the Netflix library. Closing out our spooky section is “This Is The Zodiac Speaking,” yet another serial killer-focused docuseries hit for Netflix, at No. 9. This time, the focus is the so-called Zodiac Killer who frightened the Bay Area in the 1960s.

Now for some (slightly) lighter fare.“The Lincoln Lawyer” Season 3 stays at No. 3 on the chart for the second straight week. Netflix’s popular game show “Love is Blind” also maintains its hold onto No. 5.

Rugged individualism is rewarded on the remainder of the chart. “The Old Man” stars Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow as old-time intelligence agents looking to save the world. The Season 2 finale arrived on Hulu on Oct. 24. That’s followed by “Tulsa King,” the Paramount+ series about a mob boss (Sylvester Stallone) fresh from jail and setting up a new racket in the title city. Finally, “Territory,” a new Netflix ranching drama that feels a bit like “Yellowstone” by way of the Australian outback, makes its streaming chart debut this week. It lands at No. 10.

The big story on linear this week is a scripted series topping the chart. “Tracker,” on CBS, has been a steady presence near the top of the chart since it returned for its second season. The show has likely been aided by its air time immediately following one of the behemoths of linear viewership: CBS’s Sunday Night Football game (the Samba TV Weekly Wrap Report excludes sports content). This week, it followed the New England Patriots and New York Jets game, which helped put it over the top.

Competition shows take the next three spots, with two airings of “The Voice” coming in at No. 2 and No. 4 and “Dancing with the Stars” sandwiched between them. That block is followed by a quartet of scripted shows, with NBC and CBS trading off spots. “Chicago Med” (NBC) is No. 5, followed by “FBI” (CBS) at No. 6. We return to Chicago (and NBC) with “Chicago Fire” at No. 7, then go back to CBS for “The Equalizer” at No. 8.

Two airings of “Wheel of Fortune” on ABC close out the chart this week.

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.

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