Does it get old for Game of Thrones to break records? Probably not, and today comes news that it has indeed broken some more. Ending what has already been a record breaking seventh season for the series, the longest ever episode of the HBO blockbuster smashed all its previous viewership highs with last night’s penultimate season finale.
The nearly 80-minute long David Benioff and D.B. Weiss penned “The Dragon and The Wolf” snagged 12.1 million viewers for the series based on George R.R. Martin’s books. That’s up 13% from GoT‘s previous viewership high of August 13’s “Eastwatch” episode and a surge of 36% over the Season 6 finale on June 26, 2016.
The seventh season of the series has averaged 31 million viewers per episode once live, time-shifted, on-demand and streaming plays are tallied. That’s up 34% from the previous record shattering season 6 in 2016. Last night’s finale, which is the last episode that will air for potentially 16 months, hit about 16.5 million viewers with live tune-in and night of streams.
