While promoting his new movie, My Cousin Rachel, Iain Glen naturally also answered a few questions concerning Game of Thrones in an interview with the Irish national broadcaster RTÉ. He dearly hopes Ser Jorah gets to survive until the end of the show (don’t we all?), but also admits that he has no idea about his character’s ultimate […]
Continue reading →A week ago we reported HBO was scouting Sweden, in particular Visby on the island of Gotland as a potential Game of Thrones location. The decision has now been made not to film there. As the local press writes, the major factor was the lack of tax breaks for filming. This does not rule Sweden out […]
Continue reading →In a quieter summer than usual, in terms of Game of Thrones news, Bran actor Isaac Hempstead Wright addresses the very reason for the dearth of production reports – the shift of filming to a later date – and how he feels about the change in this IGN piece: It feels weird, starting so much later, […]
Continue reading →Tuesday is the day for numbers, so let’s keep it that way. HBO has announced that season 6 episodes averaged 25.1 million viewers! Let’s just have the press release speak for itself. GAME OF THRONES highly anticipated sixth season conquered all previous seasons with episodes averaging 25.1 million viewers to-date (linear Plays + DVR + HBO On Demand […]
Continue reading →HBO has just released their plans for season seven of Game of Thrones. It is now official that the episode count for next year stands at seven episodes. The filming is slated for “later this summer.” We already knew that the beginning of the season 7 production will take place later than usual; now the new season is […]
Continue reading →Another Tuesday is here, but the season is over, alas. This means there are no fresh overnight ratings of a new episode – still, we can take a look at the viewership numbers of season six as a whole. First of all, here is the overview graph for the first six seasons of Game of Thrones, […]
Continue reading →In the aftermatch of the whole Brexit shambles, people have been worrying what that means for Game of Thrones. One of the show’s principle filming sites since season one has been Northern Ireland (NI), as we know, using both outdoor and studio locations, most notably the Paint Hall (Titanic Studios) in Belfast. While the season seven […]
Continue reading →Finally, HBO has released this season’s total number of Game of Thrones viewers (via Entertainment Weekly). With over 23 million viewers on average per episode – so far – across all platforms (first airings, repeats, DVR, and streaming), the season has set a new record, beating last year’s 20 million mark. This represents an increase of 15 %, […]
Continue reading →The numbers are in. Battle of the Bastards was seen by 7.66 million people during the first airing, which is in the same range as last week’s Game of Thrones episode (7.60 mil) – but with a proviso that episode 609 ran again the decisive 7th game of the NBA finals, which understandably drew a huge audience.
Continue reading →Nothing new to report, really – the latest episode of Game of Thrones was seen by 7.60 million people when it first aired this Sunday, which is just a tad under the 7.80 million from last week. In related news, TV by the numbers reports that the episodes are consistently seen by over 10 million people within […]
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