Some 17.4 million Americans watched the first episode of the final season of television’s “Game of Thrones,” a record audience for the medieval fantasy series, cable channel HBO said on Monday.
On social media, Sunday’s premiere was also the most-tweeted-about episode of the show ever, with more than 5 million Tweets, and 11 million mentions throughout the course of the weekend, HBO said in a statement.The series set among warring families in the fictional kingdom of Westeros, which began in 2007, has become HBO’s biggest hit.
Season 7 averaged 32.8 million U.S. viewers per episode when delayed viewing was counted and HBO said it expected the Season 8 average to “grow considerably”.
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