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Amazon's 'The Wheel of Time' was the biggest new series in the US last year

3 February, 2022

"The Wheel of Time" was a huge hit for Amazon last year, as the company invested heavily in genre TV.

The fantasy series, based on the "Wheel of Time" novels by Robert Jordan, was the biggest TV debut for a new series in 2021 among US audiences, according to the data firm Parrot Analytics.

The company said that "The Wheel of Time" had the greatest average audience demand in the US in the first 30 days after its premiere of any new series last year. The show was 43.2 times more in demand during its first 30 days than the average series in the US, ahead of other new shows like Netflix's "Arcane" and Disney+'s "The Book of Boba Fett."

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