Varys approves of the ratings news, but will not tell the King until it suits his inscrutable purpose.Last week saw Thrones' UK overnight ratings completely unexpectedly shoot up to 628,000, a 20% increase over the preceding week after a two-week steady drop. Whatever caused that spike clearly wasn't around this week as ratings moved back down to 522,000, comparable to Episode 2 and 3's 531,000 and 506,000. Very curious. In the meantime the 'full week' ratings for Sky Atlantic, taking in online viewings and multiple repeats, continue to trickle in on a two-week delay. After Episode 1's phenomenal 1.852 million, Episode 2 saw a drop to 1.641 million. Episode 3 showed signs of levelling off at 1.584 million. The full ratings for Episode 4 will be interesting to watch, to see if there is a similar spike to the overnights, or if the overnights came at the expense of the repeat viewings and the overall figures remain level.
Overall, Thrones remains the most-watched show on Sky Atlantic. The overnights for its first five episodes are also the five-highest-rated episodes in the channel's history and its performance is strong.
In the USA, Thrones is enjoying a slow and steady build. The overnights for Episodes 1 and 2 were 2.2 million but this has crept up to 2.6 million this week. Consolidated viewings are harder to track, since constant repeats and re-streamings on HBO Go means that the viewing figures for all previously-aired episodes are constantly increasing. However, it appears that total figures for Episode 1 are now exceeding 9 million, whilst Episode 5 this week got up to over 3 million with the same-night repeats. Whilst Thrones isn't setting record books on fire, it's a steady improvement which has made the show the third-most-successful series on HBO's current roster, behind True Blood and Boardwalk Empire. If the steady build continues, HBO will be very happy indeed, though I suspect they'll be a lot happier (and more likely to increase the episode order for Season 2, which a lot of fans and critics are calling for) if there is a sharper increase as we move into the late season period.
5 comments:
Excellent news. It's doing much better than True Blood did in its first season, and Boardwalk Empire has the advantage of established setting and material plus a major star.
Crap sums up the series. No story. Acting is dumb. And mindless sex scenes go so far beyond you wonder what was hbo thinking. Having a 12 year old suck the tits of a female actor is sooooo gross. Don't watch
I dunno if Steve Buscemi is a bigger star than Sean Bean, but yes. Very cool.
Expanding the season to 12 episodes--is that actually a feasible thing, or is it a pipe dream?
GoT's sex scenes are certainly nowhere near as 'outrageous' as say TRUE BLOOD's or many other shows on TV. And the actor is 8 and a prosthetic was involved. It's a disturbing scene that's meant to shock the audience (and the other characters) into realising that Lysa Arryn is more than slightly insane.
Wert, I wouldn't bother responding to that troll - who goes around the internet searching out articles on the ratings of any show in order to just post some mindless drivel telling others not to watch? What a tool. And anyone who claims there is no story should return to watching reruns of Barney and other nonsense.
*sorry I don't have a google account to post properly, sincerely, Kevin*
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