Sunday night time’s Home of the Dragon season one finale introduced large numbers again to HBO Max. It marked HBO’s greatest “finale viewers” because the controversial Sport of Thrones sequence finale three and a half years in the past, with 9.3 million viewers tuning in.
This quantity was nonetheless fairly a methods away from the ultimate episode of Sport of Thrones, nevertheless, which pulled in 19.3 million viewers throughout HBO’s platforms and broke HBO data. Even the penultimate episode of Sport of Thrones noticed 18.4 million viewers.
Home of the Dragon episodes are averaging 29 million viewers within the US, in accordance with HBO on Monday. Season 7 of Sport of Thrones — the second-last season — averaged 32.8 million viewers per episode, for comparability, whereas season 8 averaged 44.2 million viewers per episode.
“We’re so thrilled to see Home of the Dragon catch hearth with Sport of Thrones followers all over the world, in addition to new viewers who’re discovering the world of Westeros,” stated HBO CEO Casey Bloys.
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