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Despite a 54% drop in viewing in its third week on Netflix, The Watcher still managed to top Nielsen's U.S. streaming chart once again for the week of October 24 to 30. The Ryan Murphy-produced thriller collected an additional 1.2B viewing minutes. Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities came in…

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…

The Watcher cruised to a win in Nielsen’s streaming rankings for the week of October 10 to 16, giving producer Ryan Murphy his second top show less than a month after the release of the blowout hit Dahmer. With 2.355 billion minutes of streaming, the series more than doubled the viewership of…

Ryan Murphy has another anthology after Netflix ordered two additional installments of his Monster franchise following the success of Dahmer. The streamer has also ordered a second season of his drama series The Watcher. Neither move is a surprise given the ratings success of both shows…

Tonight on Saturday Night Live, host Amy Schumer took part in a sketch parodying the popular mystery series The Watcher, which debuted on Netflix in October. The sketch titled “The Looker” saw Schumer playing a suburban mom, with James Austin Johnson as her husband, and Marcello Hernández and Chloe…

Ryan Murphy has been dethroned. Tembi and Attica Locke's limited series From Scratch has taken over from The Watcher as the most-viewed series on Netflix last week. The drama series starring Zoe Saldaña, about an artist who finds romance with a chef in Italy, notched 72.02 million hours watched in…

Ryan Murphy is continuing his reign over Netflix. His real-estate thriller The Watcher is the most-watched series on Netflix for the second week in a row, with 148.2M hours viewed. That’s in addition to the 125M hours it racked up in its first week on the streamer, totaling 273.2M hours viewed since…

Ryan Murphy sat down with the female cast members of The Watcher to reflect on the true crime genre and discuss who may have been the true voyeur who inspired his Netflix limited series. But first, Murphy was happy to take credit for accomplishing what few — if any — Hollywood projects try to…

Ryan Murphy continues to rack up the numbers on Netflix. Deadline revealed on Friday that Murphy’s latest series, real-estate thriller The Watcher, had dethroned his other show Dahmer at the top of Netflix's daily chart. This came after 21 consecutive days at the top for the serial killer…

After 21 consecutive days atop Netflix’s daily chart of most watched TV series, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story slipped to #2 on Friday, Oct. 14. It was overtaken by The Watcher. Both true-crime limited series come from Ryan Murphy under his big overall deal at Netflix. After the quick…

A true story about a creep who stalks a family in their New Jersey home is now the subject of The Watcher, a Netflix limited series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan that premieres Oct. 13. The limited series stars Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale as Maria and Derek Brannock, who move into what is supposed to be their…

Netflix has unveiled an unconventional teaser for Ryan Murphy’s upcoming limited series The Watcher. It’s also the streamer’s first official confirmation of the series. The White Lotus star Jennifer Coolidge hosts a three-minute “open house” video as realtor Karen Calhoun. “Hi, I’m Karen Calhoun from Darren Dunn…