{"id":53873,"date":"2022-08-23T13:29:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/house-of-the-dragon-largest-premiere-in-hbo-history\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:29:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:29:01","slug":"house-of-the-dragon-largest-premiere-in-hbo-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/house-of-the-dragon-largest-premiere-in-hbo-history\/","title":{"rendered":"House of the Dragon Largest Premiere in HBO History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon is HBO Max&#8217;s biggest premiere ever.  The show&#8217;s debut episode was watched by 9.986 million viewers across HBO and HBO Max \u2013 the largest audience for any new show in HBO&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was wonderful to see millions of Game of Thrones fans return with us to Westeros last night,\u201d said HBO chief content officer Casey Bloys.  \u201cHouse of the Dragon features an incredibly talented cast and crew who poured their heart and soul into the production, and we&#8217;re ecstatic with viewers&#8217; positive response.  We look forward to sharing with audiences what else George, Ryan, and Miguel have in store for them this season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The highly anticipated debut was also a huge hit on social media, trending in the top spot on Twitter for a staggering 14 hours straight as fans awaited the new show.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"article-video-container\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The House of the Dragon premiere was the best series launch to date on HBO Max in the United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.<\/p>\n<p>HBO also saw the largest single-night audience since the Game of Thrones series finale brought in 19.3 million viewers in May 2019. As far as series debuts go, it&#8217;s incredibly strong and shows solid support from Game of Thrones fans so far.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"object-feedback\"\/>\n<p>House of the Dragon seemingly enjoyed the fanbase built by its predecessor, totally blowing away the Game of Thrones debut which saw just 2.22 million same-day viewers back in 2011. Of course, the original show had no pre-existing fanbase, at least in the TV realm, and House of the Dragon builds upon what HBO has done over the course of the last decade.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"widget-container\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-862123036 slideshow-preview\">\n<p>The House of the Dragon Images<\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-862123036 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-862123036 hero-image\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-3600606818 aspect-ratio-container aspect-ratio-16-9\">\n<div class=\"jsx-3600606818 aspect-ratio-child\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/output><\/p>\n<p>The influx of viewers also caused the HBO Max app to crash for many users, with outages stopping some Game of Thrones fans from watching the show&#8217;s debut.<\/p>\n<p>IGN&#8217;s review of the debut episode called it \u201ca strong, well-cast start to the Game Of Thrones spin-off.  This feels very close to its predecessor in tone and content, but immediately establishes a struggle for power around an amiable, weak-willed king, and vivid new characters to fight those battles.  We also have dragons, inbreeding, and resentment.  It&#8217;s good to be back in backstabbing Westeros.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Want to read more about House of the Dragon?  Check out everything we know about House of the Dragon so far, and find out what we know about the Gold Cloaks.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN.  You can follow him on <\/em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanLeston\" target=\"_blank\"><em>twitter<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon is HBO Max&#8217;s biggest premiere ever. The show&#8217;s debut episode was watched by 9.986 million viewers across HBO and HBO Max \u2013 the largest audience for any new show in HBO&#8217;s history. \u201cIt was wonderful to see millions of Game of Thrones fans return with us to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/house-of-the-dragon-largest-premiere-in-hbo-history\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">House of the Dragon Largest Premiere in HBO History<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53262,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tv-ratings-sunday-aug-21-2022-the-hollywood-reporter-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":53873,"position":0},"title":"TV Ratings Sunday, Aug.  21, 2022 \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter","date":"August 22, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The premiere of HBO's House of the Dragon pulled in a record-setting audience on Sunday. the game of Thrones prequel, which is set about 200 years before the previous series and focuses on the Targaryen family, drew nearly 10 million viewers across all platforms in the United States, HBO says.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":53246,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tv-ratings-sunday-aug-21-2022-the-hollywood-reporter\/","url_meta":{"origin":53873,"position":1},"title":"TV Ratings Sunday, Aug.  21, 2022 \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter","date":"August 22, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The premiere of HBO's House of the Dragon pulled in a record-setting audience on Sunday. the game of Thrones prequel, which is set about 200 years before the previous series and focuses on the Targaryen family, drew nearly 10 million viewers across all platforms in the United States, HBO says.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":60090,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/episode-2-actually-had-more-viewers-than-series-premiere\/","url_meta":{"origin":53873,"position":2},"title":"Episode 2 Actually Had More Viewers Than Series Premiere","date":"August 29, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"There is no \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d when it comes to HBO viewership: The prequel series \u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d has already conquered the network.After making history with the highest premiere ratings ever, viewership for Episode 2 of \u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d increased by two percent for the next episode, tallying\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":52841,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/house-of-the-dragon-hbo-max-crashes-as-millions-of-game-of-thrones-fans-tune-in-for-series-premiere\/","url_meta":{"origin":53873,"position":3},"title":"House of the Dragon: HBO Max Crashes as Millions of Game of Thrones Fans Tune in for Series Premiere","date":"August 22, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon has crashed HBO Max. 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