House of the Dragon becomes the biggest launch in HBO history
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The first episode was twice as popular in the United States as that of Game Of Thrones.
The fans were, to say the least, at the rendezvous. The launch of House of the Dragonprequel to Game Of Thrones, offers a record to the HBO channel and its platforms, which broadcast it on August 21 (the series is visible in France on OCS). The program brought together 9.99 million people in the United States. By comparison, the first episode of Game Of Thronesin 2011, had attracted 4.2 million curious people including many readers of the work of George RR Martin. Now the series has its own fan parades.
Some of them had to chew their brakes: the high demand weighing on the platform led to thousands of bugs on HBO and its platforms. Nearly 4,000 for the evening of August 21 alone, reports the dedicated American site Downdetector. Probably only the tip of the iceberg. Furious tweets accompanied all the first hours of broadcast.
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House of the Dragon will he have the destiny of Game Of Thrones ? The parent series, which was broadcast in 207 countries, set audience records. The last episode, in May 2019, was followed by more than 19 million viewers in the United States. The penultimate, by 18.4 million people. In terms of audiences, the series The Sopranos comes second for HBO. But on American television, the record goes to the final episode of MASHwhich had 106 million viewers in 1983.
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