It’s honestly pretty hard to set these sort of records these days, because so few people watch the same thing, especially live+7. (which means at air time, plus 7 days for on demand)
The Game of Thrones prequel, which is set about 200 years before the previous series and focuses on the Targaryen family, drew nearly 10 million viewers across all platforms in the United States, HBO says. That’s the biggest series premiere in HBO’s history.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the premiere also was the best series launch to date on HBO Max in the United States, Latin America and the so-called EMEA region — Europe, the Middle East and Africa. (Per usual, streaming figures aren’t broken out.)
“It was wonderful to see millions of Game of Thrones fans return with us to Westeros last night,” HBO and HBO Max chief content officer Casey Bloys said in a statement. “House of the Dragon features an incredibly talented cast and crew who poured their heart and soul into the production, and we’re ecstatic with viewers’ positive response. We look forward to sharing with audiences what else George [R.R. Martin], Ryan [Condal] and Miguel [Sapochnik] have in store for them this season.”