‘House of the Dragon’ Viewership Up 5% With Episode 4 (EXCLUSIVE)

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Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer As a Sunday night series, the first episode of “House of the Dragon” was only available for streaming during the final three hours of Nielsen’s window for calculating its weekly SVOD ratings for Aug. 15-21. But in that brief period of time, the “Game of Thrones” prequel managed to be watched for 327 million minutes via HBO Max, according to the ratings currency company’s new rankings. “House of the Dragon” premiered Sunday, Aug. 21 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and was immediately available for streaming on HBO Max at that time. The Nielsen-provided figure here only counts streaming viewership, meaning anyone who watched “House of the Dragon” via HBO’s linear channel or any other platform is not included in the count.

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After its record-breaking premiere with just under 10 million viewers tuning in, HBO's House of the Dragon keeps finding new viewers.The show's fourth episode - entitled King of the Narrow Sea - jumped an estimated 5% from the third episode, according to a new report from Variety.While the show saw a small increase in linear viewers, the biggest jump came from viewers on streaming services like HBO Max, HBO Go and HBO Now. New viewers: After its record-breaking premiere with just under 10 million viewers tuning in, HBO's House of the Dragon keeps finding new viewers 5%: The show's fourth episode - entitled King of the Narrow Sea - jumped an estimated 5% from the third episode, according to a new report from Variety Nielsen reports that 2.536 million viewers tuned in to the four airings of King of the Narrow Sea on HBO.That is a small increase over the 2.474 million viewers who tuned in to the four Episode 3 linear airings.

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