Home of the Dragon opened its doorways to much more folks in Week 2, constructing on its record-setting premiere viewers.
Episode 2 of the Sport of Thrones prequel, titled “The Rogue Prince,” amassed 10.2 million viewers domestically throughout HBO Max and linear telecasts on Sunday night time, marking a achieve of two % from the collection premiere’s early tallies.
That collection premiere viewers, the truth is, is now approaching 25 million viewers within the U.S., after one week of availability.
Almost 10 million viewers (9.986 million to be precise) watched Home of the Dragon’s Aug. 21 debut, marking the most important premiere viewers for a brand new unique collection in pay cabler HBO’s historical past.
TVLine readers gave that much-ballyhooed premiere a median grade of “A-.“
Days later, HBO introduced the fantasy saga’s Season 2 pickup.
“We’re past happy with what your complete Home of the Dragon crew has achieved with Season 1,” HBO Programming EVP Francesca Orsi stated in an announcement. “Our phenomenal solid and crew undertook a large problem and exceeded all expectations, delivering a present that has already established itself as must-see-TV. An enormous thanks to [series co-creators] George [R.R. Martin], Ryan [Condal] and Miguel [Sapochnik] for main us on this journey. We couldn’t be extra excited to proceed bringing to life the epic saga of Home Targaryen with Season 2.”
Set two centuries earlier than the occasions of the mothership collection, Home of the Dragon chronicles the autumn of Home Targaryen, pulling from Hearth & Blood, a compendium written by George R. R. Martin that elaborates on the Targaryen household’s historical past. The key gamers of the present’s sizable solid embody 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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