{"id":65098,"date":"2022-09-03T20:17:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T20:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-rings-of-power-pulls-in-25m-viewers-for-premiere-deadline\/"},"modified":"2022-09-03T20:17:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T20:17:54","slug":"the-rings-of-power-pulls-in-25m-viewers-for-premiere-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-rings-of-power-pulls-in-25m-viewers-for-premiere-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rings of Power Pulls In 25M Viewers For Premiere \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power<\/em> is the biggest thing Amazon Prime Video has ever done, and it looks like the TV series based on JRR Tolkien&#8217;s writing has delivered big time.<\/p>\n<p>Launching with two episodes in 240 counties and territories across the globe on September 1, the JD Payne &#038; Patrick McKay co-created <em>Rings of Power<\/em> snared more 25 million viewers in its first day, according to the Jeff Bezos founded streamer.<\/p>\n<p>With some very big bucks behind<em> Rings of Power<\/em>that global audience of over 25 million is the best and biggest premiere that Amazon Prime Video has had in its 15-year history<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is somehow fitting that Tolkien&#8217;s 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,\u201d said Amazon Studios boss Jennifer Salke today.  \u201cI am so grateful to the Tolkien Estate \u2013 and to our showrunners JD 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taking place thousands of years before the tales of Tolkien&#8217;s <em>The Hobbit<\/em> and <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, <em>The Rings of Power<\/em> takes fans new and old back Middle-earth and the peaceful time of the Second Age \u2026well, it looks peaceful at first.  The eight-episode first season will run until October 14.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is a lot more<em> Rings of Power<\/em> to come<\/p>\n<p>When Prime Video picked up the rights from the Tolkien estate in 2017, for a reported $250 million, the streamer made a commitment for a five-season run.  The big budget Season 1 was shot in New Zealand, where Peter Jackson made his Oscar winning trilogy.  Season 2 has seen the show move to the UK, with production about to start there.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow all things <em>LOTR<\/em> on the new video series<em> Deadline&#8217;s Inside the Ring: The LOTR: The Rings of Power<\/em> after show \u2013 which launched its first episode today.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n! function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n        n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n    }\n    ;\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '422369225140645');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is the biggest thing Amazon Prime Video has ever done, and it looks like the TV series based on JRR Tolkien&#8217;s writing has delivered big time. Launching with two episodes in 240 counties and territories across the globe on September 1, the JD Payne &#038; Patrick &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-rings-of-power-pulls-in-25m-viewers-for-premiere-deadline\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Rings of Power Pulls In 25M Viewers For Premiere \u2013 Deadline<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65216,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lord-of-the-rings-ratings-amazons-rings-of-power-premiere-viewers\/","url_meta":{"origin":65098,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; Ratings: Amazon&#8217;s Rings of Power Premiere Viewers","date":"September 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Amazon broke a long-held precedent Saturday by revealing viewership data for a Prime Video series for the first time ever, making the exception on remaining tight-lipped about its internal TV ratings for its big-budget \u201cThe Lord of the Rings\u201d TV series . 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