HBO’s ‘House of the Dragon’ draws 10 million viewers, setting ratings record

Behind-the-scenes filming for HBO's "House of the Dragon"
Crews put together behind the scenes for filming HBO’s “Home of the Dragon” at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in Watford, England.
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HBO’s “Home of the Dragon” scored almost 10 million viewers within the U.S. on Sunday, setting a viewership file for the debut of an HBO unique collection.

The corporate introduced Monday that its prequel to “Recreation of Thrones” was a bona fide hit.

The present, which additionally debuted on streaming service HBO Max, had massive boots to fill.

The unique collection, “Recreation of Thrones,” steadily grew into HBO’s greatest collection ever. It ended after eight seasons in Might 2019 with an unlimited viewers — its finale drew greater than 19 million viewers — however that story’s ending fell in need of expectations for a few of its most ardent followers.

The newest incarnation, primarily based on George R.R. Martin’s “Hearth & Blood” e book, is ready within the fictional Westeros about 200 years earlier than the “Recreation of Thrones” mayhem. The brand new collection struck acquainted themes: a succession drama crammed with jealousy, flying dragons and gory human deaths. Most critics’ opinions had been favorable.

“It was great to see hundreds of thousands of ‘Recreation of Thrones’ followers return with us to Westeros final evening,” Casey Bloys, HBO and HBO Max chief content material officer, mentioned in an announcement. “‘Home of the Dragon’ options an extremely proficient solid and crew who poured their coronary heart and soul into the manufacturing, and we’re ecstatic with viewers’ constructive response.”

There have been scattered studies of HBO Max servers crashing through the premiere.

The community plans to televise a brand new episode of “Home of the Dragon” each Sunday by way of Oct. 23.

The collection launched lower than per week after HBO and HBO Max laid off 70 folks, about 14% of its workforce. Warner Bros. Discovery — which fashioned in April when the smaller Discovery merged with WarnerMedia — has had a rocky begin. Its inventory is down greater than 50% since early April, and insiders have been rattled by reorganizations and downsizing, together with the abrupt closure of CNN+, a shake-up on the historic Warner Bros. movie and TV studio and the dumping of a virtually accomplished HBO Max film “Batgirl.”

In an e mail to Warner Bros. Discovery workers two days earlier than the premiere, Chief Government David Zaslav signaled his firm’s lofty targets for “Home of the Dragon,” when thanking the staff at HBO. The group has “shepherded what seems to be the following massive cultural second,” Zaslav wrote.

Zaslav additionally famous the advertising and marketing marketing campaign, saying it, too, was the most important in HBO historical past, reaching 130 million folks within the U.S.

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