The Dark Wizards true identity in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is a Tolkien deep cut
- Newsrooms
- 11
- Last 3 hours
- 4 reports
- Momentum
- Surging
1 in the 3 before
Accelerating
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
Against the past week
More newsrooms than 97% of the past week’s 3556 stories, and number 13 of 428 in Film & TV.Part of a bigger story
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- Speeding up4 reports in the last 3 hours, up from 1 in the 3 before.
- ScoopTVLine had it 4 hr before anyone else.
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The story so far
11 newsrooms- Reports
- 16
- Newsrooms and sources
- 11
- Last 3 hours
- 4
Accelerating: reports are coming in at least twice as fast as three hours before (4 in the last three hours, 1 in the three before).
First with it: TVLine, 4 hr 26 min before anyone else.
Reported by 11 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 11
- Over
- 16.5 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 4.4 hr
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2:34am AEDT | TVLine | 1 |
| 7:00am AEDT | IndieWire | 2 |
| 7:00am AEDT | TheWrap | 3 |
| 7:00am AEDT | Decider | 4 |
| 7:00am AEDT | Screen Rant | 5 |
| 7:01am AEDT | /Film | 6 |
| 7:01am AEDT | JoBlo | 7 |
| 7:01am AEDT | Gizmodo | 8 |
| 4:00pm AEDT | The Guardian | 9 |
| 7:01pm AEDT | Mashable | 10 |
| 7:01pm AEDT | IGN | 11 |


