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Game of Thrones 'Beyond the Wall' ratings | Season Finale Threatened to Leak - Duration: 2:22.
Game of Thrones 'Beyond the Wall' ratings: Second biggest ever.
Did Game of Thrones manage to set yet another ratings record for yet another leaked episode?
Not quite.
But the HBO fantasy hit's latest adventure,"Beyond the Wall," still managed to deliver the
show's second-biggest audience ever.
Sunday's 70-minute episode racked up 10.2 million viewers from the show's first 9
p.m. airing, tying the fourth episode of the season, "The Spoils of War," as the second
most-watched GoT episode in the overnight Nielsens of all time.
Last week's hour, "Eastwatch," still holds the record with 10.7 million viewers.
"Beyond the Wall" was leaked online four days in advance by two of HBO's overseas
divisions in what appeared to be a brief uploading error.
The leaks have not, it seems, impacted the show's ratings.
"The Spoils of War" set what was then an all-time record despite leaking (though
that was only two days in advance of airing compared to four days for "Beyond the Wall").
"Eastwatch" then set the show's biggest record of all time and did not leak.
So both an episode that leaked and an episode that did not leak set all-time records within
a couple weeks of each other, suggesting that leaking was neither harmful or a benefit,
though one can't draw any firm conclusions from just a couple examples.
If you include repeats and streaming, "Beyond the Wall" is already up to 14.2 million
viewers across all platforms.
And GoT episodes from earlier in this season are averaging around 29 million viewers once
all forms of viewing are counted — and that's only in the United States; the show is a major
hit overseas as well.
The HBO hacker who infiltrated the company's network has threatened to leak Sunday's
80-minute season finale.
But the hacker hasn't leaked any actual GoT footage previously (all the leaks have
been from separate HBO-affiliated sources) and network insiders don't believe the hacker
has obtained any assets from the valuable series, including the finale.
The season finale has a good shot at setting another record for the franchise in any case
as the show's final episodes of every season tend to be record highs.
In any case, the finale has a rather good shot at setting another record for the franchise
as the show's final episodes of every season tend to be record highs.
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