The chart move
Paramount+’s Tulsa King climbed four positions in its second week to take the top spot on the Samba Weekly Wrap Report. That ends a four-week run in which four different Netflix titles cycled through No. 1.
The Taylor Sheridan-created mob drama, led by Sylvester Stallone, had been hanging around the top five for much of its run. Netflix still placed five titles in the Top 10, led by The Diplomat at second after a one-spot climb.
Why an older series just broke through
From hit third in its first appearance on the chart. The sci-fi horror series premiered in 2022 on MGM+, then known as Epix, and wrapped its fourth season in June. The first three seasons were added to Netflix this month, giving the series a far bigger potential audience just as Halloween arrived.
That is the clearest example in this week’s chart of a catalog library window working as an audience-building event. The report asks whether From can now return to the Top 10 more regularly when its fifth and final season arrives next year.
Drop speed versus staying power
Amazon Prime Video released all eight episodes of The Terminal List season 2 on October 21, pushing the Chris Pratt-led series into fourth in its first week. Netflix’s Nobody Wants This held fifth with its third-season return. Crystal Lake climbed one spot to sixth, and Love Is Blind entered seventh after three new episodes landed October 21.
Below, Netflix’s Newfoundland monster series, stayed on the chart for a third straight week after leading it last week. Paramount+ also has Mobland back in the Top 10, giving the service a second gangster drama alongside Tulsa King. Disney+’s Moana rounded out the streaming side.
What this means for media decisions
The shape of the chart is more useful than any single ranking. Front-loaded drops create fast chart entries, as The Terminal List and Love Is Blind show. Weekly releases may stretch top-position time, which is the stability question the report raises for Tulsa King. And older seasons placed on a larger platform can revive IP before a final season.
- Catalog windows: From used three prior seasons on Netflix to reach the Top 3 for the first time.
- Release cadence: full-season drops spike quickly; weekly drops may hold chart position longer.
- Seasonal mood: Halloween lifted horror-adjacent titles such as Crystal Lake and Below.
The linear side
On linear television, Dancing with the Stars returned to first place with its “Dedication Night” episode. NCIS stayed second in its 24th season, and the Dolly Parton tribute special took third while raising $1 million for her Imagination Library. Wheel of Fortune, The Voice, Jeopardy! and 9-1-1 filled out the remaining spots.
The chart is drawn from Samba’s panel of more than 3 million households, balanced to the U.S. Census, across streaming and linear viewing.
Source: TheWrap
