TV-Movie #1 On Netflix w ‘Dahmer’ & ‘Mr. Harrigan’s Telephone’ – Deadline

Ryan Murphy’s true crime restricted sequence Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story has been a large hit for Netflix, a dominant #1 sequence globally since its Sept. 21 launch and on observe to turn into the streamer’s second hottest English-language present solely behind Season 4 of Stranger Issues. Launched Wednesday, Oct. 5, horror movie Mr. Harrigan’s Telephone, which Murphy produced, additionally rapidly shot as much as the highest spot, giving the prolific writer-producer-director the #1 Movie and #1 TV Collection within the U.S. on Friday. It’s believed to be the primary time a producer has held the 2 high spots concurrently.

Netflix solely supplies international tallies weekly however confirmed that each Murphy titles had been #1 on the respective movie and sequence lists in 60 international locations Friday, making them international #1s for the day. We should wait till Tuesday to see whether or not Mr. Harrigan’s Telephone, directed and written by John Lee Hancock primarily based on Stephen King’s novella, shall be #1 for the week (Dahmer is assured of one other #1 end) to offer Murphy the highest weekly sports activities worldwide. One other high Netflix-based producer, Shawn Levy, has held each pole positions although not on the identical time; movie The Adam Mission was #1 globally on the weekly High 10 checklist in March of this yr, adopted by Stranger Issues 4, whose reign at #1 began in late Might.

For Murphy, the blockbuster success of Dahmer, which he co-created with Ian Brennan, comes within the third yr of his huge general cope with Netflix, which can be when Shonda Rhimes’ first Netflix sequence, mega hit Bridgerton, got here out. It was adopted by equally in style true crime restricted sequence Inventing Anna.

Murphy, who did two restricted sequence, Hollywood and Halston and two film musicals, The Promenade and The Boys Within the Band, early into his Netflix deal (Ratched and The Politician had been pre-existing and never pact of that pact), additionally has a second sequence behind the serial killer drama Dahmer, horror-themed restricted sequence The Watcher. He has turn into more and more secretive about his growth however, for the previous yr and a half, executives on the streamer have been talking extremely of what he has been engaged on. And when hypothesis began swirling over the summer time that Murphy might transfer to Disney to reunite with Dana Walden following her large promotion, Netflix executives remained assured that Murphy would have a powerful fall together with his two new sequence that had been described as being very on model for the hit maker.