{"id":1633062,"date":"2022-09-05T08:18:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T12:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1633062"},"modified":"2022-09-05T08:19:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T12:19:14","slug":"lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-is-amazons-most-watched-premiere-ever-with-25-million-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-is-amazons-most-watched-premiere-ever-with-25-million-viewers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power&#8221; Is Amazon&#8217;s Most-watched Premiere Ever with 25 Million Viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-is-amazons-most-watched-premiere-ever-with-25-million-viewers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1633062&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"speechkit-wrapper\" class=\"speechkit-wrapper\">\n<p><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power&#8221; has become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/tech\/companies\/amazon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon Prime <\/a>Video&#8217;s most-watched premiere ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The fantasy television series&#8217; debut drew a global audience of more than 25 million viewers, the largest in the streaming platform&#8217;s 15-year history, according to a report by Deadline on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rings of Power&#8221;, which is based on J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s classic &#8220;The Lord of the Rings&#8221; novels, premiered Thursday in 250 countries and territories.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has become Amazon Prime Video&#8217;s most-watched premiere ever.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Amazon Studios via AP)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It is somehow fitting that Tolkien\u2019s stories \u2013 among the most popular of all time, and what many consider to be the true origin of the fantasy genre \u2013 have led us to this proud moment,&#8221; Head of Amazon Studios Jennifer Salke said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/amazon-releases-lord-rings-rings-power-but-fans-complain-only-2nd-episode-worked-first\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AMAZON RELEASE \u2018LORD OF THE RINGS\u2019 BUT FANS COMPLAIN ONLY 2ND EPISODE WORKED AT FIRST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am so grateful to the Tolkien Estate \u2013 and to our showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, executive producer Lindsey Weber, cast and crew \u2013 for their tireless collaborative efforts and boundless creative energy. And it is the tens of millions of fans watching \u2013 clearly as passionate about Middle-earth as we are \u2013 who are our true measure of success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The eight-episode series was renewed for a second season ahead of the show&#8217;s premiere, with a five-season commitment that was part of the deal when Amazon acquired the rights from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/christopher-tolkein-son-of-lord-the-rings-creator-j-r-r-dies-95\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tolkien estate<\/a> in 2017. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rings of Power&#8221; has been billed as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/lifestyle\/amazon-spends-465-million-first-season-lord-of-the-rings-spinoff-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most expensive show<\/a> of all time. According to Time magazine, Amazon spent $465 million on the first season and estimated costs for the series&#8217; five-season run are projected to top $1 billion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/CREDIT_MATT_GRACE_PRIME_VIDEO_00338_R5_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"The fantasy television series&#039; debut drew a global audience of more than 25 million viewers.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      The fantasy television series&#8217; debut drew a global audience of more than 25 million viewers.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Ben Rothstein\/Prime Video)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Co-created by Payne and McKay, &#8220;Rings of Power&#8221; is set thousands of years before the events in Tolkien&#8217;s &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221; and &#8220;The Lord of the Rings&#8221; books, during a time of relative peace in Middle-earth.<\/p>\n<p>The show follows an ensemble cast of characters, some who will be familiar to fans as well as new characters, as they &#8220;confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth,&#8221; per a logline for the show.<\/p>\n<p>Filming for the first season took place in New Zealand, where Peter Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; movie trilogy was filmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters?cmpid=fnfirstnl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Amazon announced that production for the second season would move to the United Kingdom. Season two is set to begin filming in October. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though the show was met with mostly positive reviews by critics and has an 86 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, its current audience score sits at 36 percent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/rings-of-power-still-2.jpg\" alt=\"This image released by Amazon Studios shows Owain Arthur, left, and Sophia Nomvete in a scene from \" The Lord of the Rings: Rings Power \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      This image released by Amazon Studios shows Owain Arthur, left, and Sophia Nomvete in a scene from &#8220;The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.&#8221;\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Amazon Studios via AP)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Friday, Amazon made the unusual move of suspending user ratings for the show. \u00a0According to The Hollywood Reporter, the step was taken to prevent &#8220;review-bombing.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Review-bombing occurs when a large group of users or users with multiple accounts leave negative reviews online to lower the aggregate score of a product or service in order to hurt its popularity and\/or sales. The motivation behind review-bombing is often associated with the product&#8217;s perceived cultural or political issues as opposed to its quality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An Amazon source told the outlet that &#8220;reviews are being held 72 hours to help weed out trolls and to ensure each review is legitimate.&#8221; The insider later added that this was a practice that the streaming platform had implemented this summer for all of its new shows.<\/p>\n<p>Disney+ Marvel&#8217;s new series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/jameela-jamil-confirms-role-marvel-she-hulk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;She-Hulk&#8221; <\/a>was recently the target of suspected review-bombing on IMDB when the show received an 88 percent critics&#8217; score and an initial 36 percent audience score.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Ashley Hume is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to ashley.hume@fox.com and on Twitter: @ashleyhume<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! &#8220;The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power&#8221; has become Amazon Prime Video&#8217;s most-watched premiere ever.The fantasy television series&#8217; debut drew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1633064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1633062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1633064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}