{"id":1620189,"date":"2022-08-23T11:32:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1620189"},"modified":"2022-08-23T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T15:33:08","slug":"house-of-the-dragon-draws-record-breaking-audience-of-10-million-viewers-for-premiere-on-hbo-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-of-the-dragon-draws-record-breaking-audience-of-10-million-viewers-for-premiere-on-hbo-max\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018House Of The Dragon\u2019 Draws Record-Breaking Audience Of 10 Million Viewers For Premiere On HBO Max"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-of-the-dragon-draws-record-breaking-audience-of-10-million-viewers-for-premiere-on-hbo-max%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1620189&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/game-of-thrones\">Game of Thrones<\/a>\u201d fans are still fuming over the controversial final season, but that didn\u2019t stop them from tuning in to the prequel spinoff \u201cHouse of the Dragon,\u201d which premiered Sunday on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hbo-max\">HBO Max<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new series about another epic battle for the Iron Throne drew a record-breaking audience of close to 10 million viewers. This shattered records and made it the most-watched premiere in the network\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Buzzfeed News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/paigeskinner\/house-of-the-dragon-premiere-ratings\">noted<\/a> that \u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d was trending on Twitter for 14 hours this weekend and topped Google Trends as well. Fans kept the momentum going when the episode aired by posting their reactions, both good and bad, to the premiere episode.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d is set 200 years before the story told in \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d and follows the rise and fall of House Targaryen. It details events leading up to the Targaryen war of succession, which is called the Dance of the Dragons. \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d fans will recognize names and events mentioned in the original series, and it\u2019s all based on the book \u201cFire and Blood\u201d by George R. R. Martin.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cIt was wonderful to see millions of \u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 fans return with us to Westeros last night,\u201d chief content officer of HBO and HBO Max Casey Bloys said in a news release, per Buzzfeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018House of the Dragon\u2019 features an incredibly talented cast and crew who poured their heart and soul into the production, and we\u2019re ecstatic with viewers\u2019 positive response. We look forward to sharing with audiences what else [George R.R. Martin and showrunners Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik] have in store for them this season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a good thing the premiere was so popular because the network sank a lot of capital into it. Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/08\/20\/house-of-the-dragon-and-rings-of-power-are-coming-whats-at-stake.html\">CNBC<\/a>, it spent between $15 and $20 million making each episode.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Feedback on episode one has been overwhelmingly positive, even though fans were disturbed by the graphic and bloody nature of the series so far. They were especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/house-of-the-dragon-fans-erupt-over-forced-birth-scene-in-explosive-premiere\">moved by a scene<\/a> depicting Queen Aemma (Sian Brooke) dying during childbirth when she\u2019s given a c-section to get the baby out.<\/p>\n<p>No one who read the book was surprised. But viewers reacted strongly to losing a main character so soon, comparing the loss to \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d killing off Ned Stark in season one. <\/p>\n<p>Critics also used the so-called \u201cforced birth\u201d scene to draw comparisons to abortion bans, claiming it was a victory for the patriarchy since the queen\u2019s husband ultimately approved the c-section which would kill his wife but could potentially save his son.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, both the mother and child died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGame of Thrones\u201d fans are still fuming over the controversial final season, but that didn\u2019t stop them from tuning in to the prequel spinoff \u201cHouse of the Dragon,\u201d which premiered Sunday on HBO Max. The new series about another epic battle for the Iron Throne drew a record-breaking audience of close to 10 million viewers. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1620192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1620192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}