House of the Dragon opened its doorways to much more individuals in Week 2, constructing on its record-setting premiere viewers.
Episode 2 of the Game of Thrones prequel, titled “The Rogue Prince,” amassed 10.2 million viewers domestically throughout HBO Max and linear telecasts on Sunday evening, marking a acquire of two % from the sequence premiere’s early tallies.
That sequence premiere viewers, in truth, is now approaching 25 million viewers in the U.S., after one week of availability.
Nearly 10 million viewers (9.986 million to be actual) watched House of the Dragon’s Aug. 21 debut, marking the largest premiere viewers for a brand new unique sequence in pay cabler HBO’s historical past.
TVLine readers gave that much-ballyhooed premiere a mean grade of “A-.“
Days later, HBO introduced the fantasy saga’s Season 2 pickup.
“We are beyond proud of what the entire House of the Dragon team has accomplished with Season 1,” HBO Programming EVP Francesca Orsi mentioned in a press release. “Our phenomenal cast and crew undertook a massive challenge and exceeded all expectations, delivering a show that has already established itself as must-see-TV. A huge thank you to [series co-creators] George [R.R. Martin], Ryan [Condal] and Miguel [Sapochnik] for leading us on this journey. We couldn’t be more excited to continue bringing to life the epic saga of House Targaryen with Season 2.”
Set two centuries earlier than the occasions of the mothership sequence, House of the Dragon chronicles the fall of House Targaryen, pulling from Fire & Blood, a compendium written by George R. R. Martin that elaborates on the Targaryen household’s historical past. The main gamers of the present’s sizable forged embrace Paddy Considine as King Viserys Targaryen, Matt Smith as Prince Daemon Targaryen, Rhys Ifans as Otto Hightower, Emma D’Arcy as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower.
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