'Game of Thrones' Premiere Is Highest-Rated Episode Ever
by EG
Winter arrived in July with the seventh season premiere of Game of Thrones, but there's nothing cold about the HBO series' viewership. Coming back from the longest hiatus in its history, the drama nabbed a series high showing for a first-run telecast with an average 10.1 million viewers.
What's more, initial views from streaming has the tally growing to 16.1 million viewers — shattering any previous one-day record for the show.
Game of Thrones' ratings have risen steadily and dramatically since it premiered in 2011. The linear premiere of the first episode averaged 2.22 million viewers, with subsequent first-run live premiere airings on the network growing until leveling out at the roughly 8 million viewers who tuned in to both the fifth and sixth season premieres. (This latest premiere marks a 27 percent spike from the most recent one.)
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Game of Thrones stars Peter Dinklage and Emilia Clarke.