The billion-dollar Rings of Power got beat handily by... NCIS, which has been running since the late 90s or so. They've got to be on at least season 20, and for their core audience, Boomers, the #1 way to watch it is on OTA/basic cable, not streaming.
Assuming 60 minute episodes and only full-series viewers, RoP had an audience of 19.5m, which seems high.
The billion-dollar Rings of Power got beat handily by... NCIS, which has been running since the late 90s or so. They've got to be on at least season 20, and for their core audience, Boomers, the #1 way to watch it is on OTA/basic cable, not streaming.
Assuming 60 minute episodes and only full-series viewers, RoP had an audience of 19.5m, which seems high.
It reminds me of 1928 when they were building glorious motion picture palaces with 100' high gilded ceilings and pipe organs.
And then fiscal reality slapped them in the face with the Great Depression.