‘House of the Dragon’ Becomes Sky’s Biggest U.S. Drama Launch in U.K., Beating ‘Game of Thrones’

The first episode of House of the Dragon pulled in record viewers for Comcast’s pay-TV giant Sky in the U.K. In figures seen by The Hollywood Reporter, 1.39 million tuned in to watch the opener for HBO’s big-budget Game of Thrones prequel, set 200 years before the previous series. With 394,000 attributed to the 9 p.m. prime time linear broadcast, almost 1 million either stayed up to watch at 2 a.m. local time — when it first landed on the platform — or downloaded and watched later in the day.
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