{
  "id": 16790026,
  "title": "‘Crystal Lake’ Slashes Its Way To Fourth-Best Debut Audience Among All Peacock Scripted Originals",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/crystal-lake-slashes-its-way-to-fourth-best-debut-audience-among-all",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-27T20:08:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/10/crystal-lake-premiere-viewership-peacock-1237206503/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake, created by Brad Caleb Kane, has become Peacock's fourth-largest original series to date. According to NBCUniversal, the show has generated 1.3 billion minutes watched within its first 11 days of release following its October 15 debut. TheWrap reports that Nielsen charts for the week of October 19 ranked the series as the No. 3 streaming original and the No. 3 most-watched series among all freshman seasons.\n\nThe series stars Linda Cardellini as Pam Voorhees, a single mother struggling with grief after her sickly son, Jason, drowned in a local lake nearly a year prior. The plot follows a chain of disturbing events set in motion when two strangers arrive at Pam's door to investigate her past. According to TheWrap, the show's social media presence reached 1.8 billion earned impressions in its first 24 hours and over 7.6 million video views in its first 11 days.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Variety",
        "title": "‘Crystal Lake’ Hits 1.3 Billion Minutes Watched in 11 Days, Becoming Peacock’s No. 4 Scripted Debut Ever",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/crystal-lake-hits-1-3-billion-minutes-watched-in-11-days-becoming",
        "published": "2026-10-27T20:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "TheWrap",
        "title": "‘Crystal Lake’ Surfaces as Peacock’s 4th Biggest Scripted Original Series With 1.3 Billion Minutes in 11 Days",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/crystal-lake-surfaces-as-peacocks-4th-biggest-scripted-original",
        "published": "2026-10-27T20:01:57.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}