Viewers watched the first two episodes of "The Rings of Power," which debuted September 1, for a total of 1.253 billion minutes in the US in their first four days.
Its fantasy counterpart, HBO's "Game of Thrones" prequel "House of the Dragon" — which premiered less than two weeks before "The Rings of Power" — hasn't seemed to faced those headwinds.
Nielsen said last week that viewers watched the first two episodes of "House of the Dragon" for 741 million minutes on HBO Max from August 22 through August 28.
The show is also driving viewership for "Game of Thrones," which Nielsen said viewers watched for nearly 800 million minutes over the week of August 22.
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