HBO calls House of the Dragon its biggest premiere ever, with nearly 10 million US viewers

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The first episode of House of the Dragon recorded 9.986 million viewers, making it the most watched show in the history of the network.

With the addition of streaming and video-on-demand numbers, the Game of Throne finale had over 19 million views, making it the most watched show of all time. Ahead of the Dragon premiere, interest in the original series spiked, drawing a weekly average in August that was up 90 percent.

With so many people changing their viewing habits to streaming over cable in the last two years, there seems to be an answer to the question of whether viewers were still interested in the series after the previous show. It was great to see so many Game ofThrones fans come back to the show last night. House of the Dragon features an incredibly talented cast and crew who poured their hearts and souls into the production, and we're ecstatic with viewers' positive response.

It is difficult to compare the numbers, but they are notable for the two shows and come after a couple of weeks of confusion by Warner Bros. Discovery. Recently, execs tossed the intended-for-HBO Max Batgirl movie into the vault, dropped many shows from streaming, including some beloved animated titles, and pulled hundreds of episodes of Sesame Street from HBO Max

It is facing competition in the swords-and-sorcery genre as Amazon prepares to launch its own high-priced epic, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The final episode of the Lord of the Rings series will be released on October 14th and will be the last episode of the series. House of the Dragon will have new episodes on Sundays at 9PM.

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