{"id":644889,"date":"2019-05-21T09:19:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T09:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div> <div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><figure><img width=\"696\" height=\"447\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/06\/1561289998_181_15102433-696x447.jpg\"   alt=\"Game of Thrones - Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey). HBO-Helen Sloan\" t"},"modified":"2019-05-21T09:19:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T09:19:19","slug":"game-of-thrones-breaks-record-with-19-3-million-viewership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/21\/game-of-thrones-breaks-record-with-19-3-million-viewership\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 breaks record with 19.3 million viewership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"447\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/1561289998_181_15102433-696x447.jpg\"   alt=\"Game of Thrones - Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey). HBO-Helen Sloan\" title=\"Game of Thrones - Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey). HBO-Helen Sloan\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">HBO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The final episode of \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d broke single-night viewing records with 19.3 million tuning in to watch the finale, despite the mixed reactions from fans.<\/p>\n<p>Newsmen report this makes this makes \u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 the highest viewed show in HBO history beating it\u2019s own viewership record weekly.<\/p>\n<p>Across HBO, HBO Go, and HBO NOW, the conclusion of the megahit fantasy series drew 19.3 million viewers, overtaking the previous series high of 18.4 million viewers that was set on May 12.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, 13.6 million people watched the telecast on HBO alone, breaking the record for the biggest single telecast in HBO history.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record holder was the Season four premiere of \u2018The Sopranos\u2019 in 2002, which drew 13.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 also once again lifted up the Bill Hader-led comedy \u201cBarry,\u201d whose Season two finale drew 2.7 million viewers across HBO\u2019s platforms.<\/p>\n<p>That is up over 250% compared to the Season one finale, which drew 774,000 viewers when it aired in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The final season of HBO\u2019s television adaptation of George R.R. Martin\u2019s \u201cA Song of Ice and Fire\u201d was widely criticized by fans who felt the pacing and its treatment of previous character developments were not up to par.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the show continued to have record-breaking viewership. Each episode, except one, topped viewer counts from the season seven finale, which was the series high prior to season eight\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p>Newsmen report that one of the complaints surrounding the eighth and final season was its pacing and its treatment of previous character developments.<\/p>\n<p>While the first six seasons all contained 10 episodes, season seven was comprised of only seven installments and season eight had only six.<\/p>\n<p>Fans wished that plot lines that may have been developed further given more time fell flat for many longtime viewers of the show.<\/p>\n<p>To drive home their dissatisfaction, over 800, 000 fans have signed a petition calling for season eight to be remade.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:none;margin:0px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3E3E3E\"><i>Get more stories like this on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/todayng\" style=\"color: #ED1C24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO The final episode of \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d broke single-night viewing records with 19.3 million tuning in to watch the finale, despite the mixed reactions from fans. Newsmen report this makes this makes \u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 the highest viewed show in HBO history beating it\u2019s own viewership record weekly. Across HBO, HBO Go, and HBO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1779,1142,765,1419,1143,1780],"class_list":["post-644889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood","tag-breaks","tag-game","tag-million","tag-record","tag-thrones","tag-viewership"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 breaks record with 19.3 million viewership - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/21\/game-of-thrones-breaks-record-with-19-3-million-viewership\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"\u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 breaks record with 19.3 million viewership - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"HBO The final episode of \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d broke single-night viewing records with 19.3 million tuning in to watch the finale, despite the mixed reactions from fans. 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