Hey, here’s some hot TV insider news for you: Lots of people watch Game of Thrones. Holy Toledo, do a lot of people watch Game of Thrones. So very, very many people. Like, if you were to attempt to quantify it, you’d probably end up with something like this: [holds arms very far apart] T–h–i–s many people watch Game of Thrones.
Or, alternatively, I suppose you could look at the ratings, which this week revealed that the season six premiere broke season five’s record to become the highest-rated episode of the show to date. The Hollywood Reporter has the details.
The premiere itself was even with the most recent record, bringing in nearly 8 million viewers during its 9 p.m. premiere telecast Sunday. But with two encores and initial streaming data from services HBO Go and HBO Now, the episode gained a record 10.7 million viewers. (That number is 400,000 north of the comparable number from the previous record.)
And that’s just so far. HBO doesn’t even release official reports until seven days of viewership is tallied across all of its various platforms, so by the time that happens, expect that number to jump significantly. It’s hard to put an exact figure on it, but experts expect the final tally to be somewhere in the range of “seriously, though, so, so, so many people.”
(Via THR)