From what I understand they air the episode a dozen times over just a couple of days on several of their channels to give everybody the chance to catch it live, so maybe they want to pull all of those together before announcing the results. It could lower the numbers at the premiere if people knew they could catch the episode soon after.
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Game of Thrones scores Sky Atlantic ratings record
Adaptation of George RR Martin's fantasy series launches with average of 743,000 viewers, plus more on Sky+
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011...lantic-ratings
Game of Thrones: Sky Atlantic, 9pm – Fantasy epic Game of Thrones took the crown as Sky Atlantic's most popular show to date for its launch episode on Monday 18 April.
The big-budget HBO spectacular starring Sean Bean averaged 743,000 viewers between 9pm and 10.10pm, with a peak of 823,000.
It beat the Sky channel's previous highest overnight audience, believed to be the first episode of Martin Scorsese's Boardwalk Empire, which averaged 438,000 on its opening night.
Game of Thrones' audience is likely to be around 50% higher when viewing on timeshifted viewing on Sky+ is taken into account.
The Sky Atlantic show was the fifth most popular digital programme of the night, behind E4's Glee with 1.314 million and a trio of BBC3 shows, including an EastEnders repeat (1.088 million) and a double helping of Family Guy repeats.
Game of Thrones was the most popular subscription digital channel show of the night, however, beating Sky Sports 1's Live Championship Football into second place with 444,000 viewers kicking off at 7.30pm, and Sky 1's The Simpsons repeat in third with 426,000 viewers between 7.30pm and 8pm.
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Originally posted by Blencathra View PostGame of Thrones scores Sky Atlantic ratings record
Adaptation of George RR Martin's fantasy series launches with average of 743,000 viewers, plus more on Sky+
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011...lantic-ratings
Game of Thrones: Sky Atlantic, 9pm – Fantasy epic Game of Thrones took the crown as Sky Atlantic's most popular show to date for its launch episode on Monday 18 April.
The big-budget HBO spectacular starring Sean Bean averaged 743,000 viewers between 9pm and 10.10pm, with a peak of 823,000.
It beat the Sky channel's previous highest overnight audience, believed to be the first episode of Martin Scorsese's Boardwalk Empire, which averaged 438,000 on its opening night.
Game of Thrones' audience is likely to be around 50% higher when viewing on timeshifted viewing on Sky+ is taken into account.
The Sky Atlantic show was the fifth most popular digital programme of the night, behind E4's Glee with 1.314 million and a trio of BBC3 shows, including an EastEnders repeat (1.088 million) and a double helping of Family Guy repeats.
Game of Thrones was the most popular subscription digital channel show of the night, however, beating Sky Sports 1's Live Championship Football into second place with 444,000 viewers kicking off at 7.30pm, and Sky 1's The Simpsons repeat in third with 426,000 viewers between 7.30pm and 8pm.
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Originally posted by The Mighty 6 platoon View PostGood news on that front. I wonder if it's a big enough hit HBO could get SKY to contribute some of the budget.
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Interesting article about the opening title credits by Angus Wall
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rac...opening-179656
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Originally posted by Andron View PostInteresting article about the opening title credits by Angus Wall
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rac...opening-179656sigpic
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Originally posted by Andron View PostInteresting article about the opening title credits by Angus Wall
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rac...opening-179656
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Originally posted by Cold Fuzz View PostI read the book back in '04. I'll be watching "Winter is Coming" a little later today.
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Originally posted by Lahela View PostJust read that it's been renewed for a second series
ETA: just saw the other thread! LOL!Posting at.............
http://godus.boards.net/
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Yeah. I believe I read the ratings were based on three airings. I know they aired it right after it premiered. Not sure about the other one that counted. But the combined ratings of the three airings (along with the promise of seriously burgeoning overseas HBO subscribers and post-season episodic purchases through iTunes, etc./DVD sales) clearly indicated they had future financing.
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Originally posted by starg8fans View PostI can't even begin to imagine what making this must have cost. It was definitely big screen quality, and I hope they can keep it up.
However the second book has some huge battle scenes in, so it would be nice if the budget got a bit of a bump so we could seem some of that on screen.
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