‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power‘whose first two episodes were released on Friday, September 2, has brought together more than 25 million viewers globally in its first 24 hours on Prime Video.
The series thus becomes biggest premiere in the history of Amazon’s streaming serviceas reported by the platform in a statement in which it does not specify whether these 25 million viewers to which it refers account for all its users who began to see one of the two chapters, those who finished watching the two installments of the series or if it is it is an average estimate.
“Somehow it made sense that Tolkien’s stories would bring us this proud moment, one of the most popular stories of all time and considered by many to be the true origin of the fantasy genre,” said Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios. .
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“I am so grateful to The Tolkien Estate, and to our showrunners JD Payne and Patrick McKay, executive producer Lindsey Weber, the cast and crew of the series, for their tireless collaborative efforts and boundless creative energy. And they are the tens of millions of fans who are enjoying Middle Earthclearly with the same emotion as us, who are our true measure of success”, added Salke about the fiction, which has been released on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories around the world.
The rest of the installments of the series will see the light every Friday (until its final installment on October 14) and will have a different schedule than its first two episodes. Thus, the new chapters will see the light at six in the morning, Spanish time.