We’re not shocked by this one, despite the water bottle fiasco – they set a new record!
From Pop Culture:
Game of Thrones set a new viewership record with its series finale, which had 19.3 million people watching.
The final episode of Game of Thrones, titled simply “The Iron Throne,” was the highest-rated installment of the entire series. According to a press release from HBO, it broke the show’s own record for multiplatform viewers, which includes fans watching on cable or streaming on HBO Go and HBO Now.
The episode broke HBO’s record for most-watched telecast as well, with 13.6 million people watching it live at 9 p.m. The network’s previous best came in 2002 with the Season 4 premiere of The Sopranos, which was watched by 13.4 million people.
As for Game of Thrones, the previous record did not stand long. The show’s best before the finale was Season 8, Episode 3, “The Long Night,” which aired last month. It had 17.8 million multiplatform viewers.
Overall, the series had an average of 12.5 million viewers per episode this season, as short as it was. This was even higher than the 12.1 million total viewers for the Season 7 finale in 2017.
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