Final 'Game of Thrones' Season Kicks Off with Huge Ratings
by EG
Arguably the most-anticipated TV event of 2019 finally happened on Sunday, and it was predictably huge in terms of ratings. The premiere of the final season of Game of Thrones drew a bigger audience than ever for the series. Read on for details.
In news that should come as a surprise to absolutely no one, Game of Thrones has done it again. The HBO drama, returning to the air after a nearly two-year break, kicked off its final season on Sunday night with a new record audience.
The pay cabler cites a total 17.4 million viewers tuning in over the course of the night, besting the previous record by half a million viewers. That tally includes 11.8 million viewers watching the first-run telecast, and a 50 percent jump in viewers for the growing streaming platform of HBO Now.
These early numbers mean Game of Thrones may very well wrap its eight-season run on HBO with a consistent run of more viewers every season — with the seventh and most recent totally 32.8 million viewers per episode, once all views were factored in.
Get the rest of the story at The Hollywood Reporter.
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