House of the Dragon, its biggest opening to date, with almost 10 million viewers in the US – The Khaama Press News Agency

HBO announced that the first episode of its game of Thrones cleave house of the dragon recorded the network’s biggest premiere of all time, recording 9.986 million viewers across linear streaming and HBO Max on Sunday night in the US alone.

The original game of Thrones The series closed out its run with 13.7 million live viewers on linear channels by the end of 2019, recording over 19 million views with the addition of streaming and video-on-demand numbers.

According to HBO, before the Continue premiere, interest in the original series, with the entire series now available to stream in 4K on HBO Max, soared, drawing a weekly streaming average for August that was up 90 percent from July.

Now there seems to be an answer to the question of whether viewers were still interested in the series after the last season of the previous show and with so many people switching their viewing habits to cable streaming in the last two years.

HBO Chief Content Officer Casey Bloys said in a statement that “[i]It was wonderful to see millions of game of Thrones The fans return with us to Westeros last night. house of the dragon features an incredibly talented cast and crew who put their heart and soul into the production, and we are ecstatic with the positive response from viewers.”

While it’s hard to compare the numbers exactly, they’re remarkable for HBO and HBO Max, and they come after a couple of weeks of baffling decisions by their new corporate parent, Warner Bros. Discovery. Recently, executives released the planned Max for HBO Bat girl movie in the vault, removed many shows from broadcasting, including some beloved animated titles, and pulled hundreds of episodes from Sesame Street from HBOMax.