Peacock’s ‘Crystal Lake’ Thrills Up 1.7 Billion Minutes in 2 Weeks | Exclusive

“Crystal Lake” is a Halloween hit for Peacock, with the “Friday the 13th” prequel series generating 1.7 billion minutes watched over its first 14 days, TheWrap can reveal exclusively. That’s up from the 1.3 billion minutes viewed “Crystal Lake” tallied up in its first 11 days, cementing its place as the fourth highest scripted original series ever on Peacock. “Crystal Lake” falls behind “The Best Man: The Final Chapters,” “All Her Fault” Season 1 and “The Five Star Weekend” Season 1. Following its Oct. 15 debut, Nielsen charts for the week of Oct. 19 place Crystal Lake” as the No. 3 streaming original series and No. 1 among all first-season series. In addition to its notable viewership, “Crystal Lake” generated more social mentions in its first week after release than any other Peacock scripted original show this year so far. The show scored 1.8 billion earned impressions in its first 24 hours, and grew to reach over 7.6 million video views in its first 11 days, according to figures from Sprout social media. Brad Caleb Kane (“It: Welcome to Derry,” “Tokyo Vice,” “Warrior”) serves as creator, writer, showrunner and executive producer for the “Friday the 13th” prequel series, which follows single mother Pam Voorhees (Linda Cardellini) who has been unable to shake her grief after her young, sickly son Jason tragically drowned in the town lake almost a year before. “When two strangers arrive at Pam’s door digging into her past, a disturbing chain of events is set into motion, leaving the townspeople of Crystal Lake wondering: just who is Pam Voorhees?” the official logline reads. In addition to Cardellini, “Crystal Lake” stars William Catlett, Devin Kessler, Cameron Scoggins, Gwendolyn Sundstrom, Callum Vinson, Nick Cordileone, Joy Suprano, Danielle Kotch and Phoenix Parnevik. Beyond “Crystal Lake,” Peacock has plenty of other spooky season content to watch this Halloween weekend, including “Obsession,” the “Harry Potter” franchise, the “Halloween” franchise, “Supernatural,” “Bones,” “Charmed,” “Monster House,” “Coraline,” “Grimm,” “Tremors,” “Van Helsing,” “Get Out,” “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” “Blade,” “Come Play” and “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.”