‘Game Of Thrones’ Series Finale Breaks HBO Ratings Record

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HBO has officially revealed the ratings for last night’s series finale of their blockbuster fantasy series Game of Thrones, breaking the network’s all-time record among all of its available platforms upon its premiere. A massive 19.3 million viewers tuned in to watch the series finale entitled, “The Iron Throne”.

Although critics and fans seem to have a very mixed overall reception to not just the series finale, but to the entire eighth and final season in general, that didn’t stop them from tuning into the episode to see how HBO’s blockbuster series concluded.

This exceeded last week’s episode that at the time, broke the initial record with 18.4 million viewers. With the telecast on its own sans the numbers from HBO GO and HBO NOW, it broke The Sopranos season 4 premiere record of 13.4 million when that aired on September 15, 2002.

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David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Bryan Cogman and Dave Hill have written the final six episodes, which have been directed by David Nutter and Miguel Sapochnik, with Benioff and Weiss helming the series finale. Benioff and Weiss returned to executive produce the final season alongside Carolyn Strauss, Frank Doelger and Bernadette Caulfield, with Bryan Cogman, Guymon Casady, Vince Gerardis and George R.R. Martin serving as co-executive producers.

George R.R. Martin’s best-selling book series “A Song of Ice and Fire” depicts two powerful families — kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars and honest men — all playing a deadly game for control of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, and to sit atop the Iron Throne. Winter is coming.

Game of Thrones stars Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister, Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister, Kit Harington as Jon Snow, Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen, Liam Cunningham as Ser Davos Seaworth, Carice van Houten as Melisandre, Rory McCann as Sandor “The Hound” Clegane, Maisie Williams as Arya Stark, Conleth Hill as Varys, Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy, John Bradley as Samwell Tarly, Gwendoline Christie as Brienne of Tarth, Kristofer Hivju as Tormund Giantsbane, Isaac Hempstead Wright as Bran Stark, Jerome Flynn as Bronn, Iain Glen as Jorah Mormont, Hannah Murray as Gilly.

Source: HBO

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