Coming back from its longest hiatus in series history, 'Game of Thrones' earned its highest showing for a first-run telecast with an average of 17.4 million viewers, exceeding the previous series high for the season seven finale in 2017.
The much anticipated eighth season premiere of"Game of Thrones" aired Sunday — and viewership was hotter than dragon fire.
The TV series, crafted by D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, comes from the mind of George R.R. Martin, the best-selling author of"A Song of Ice and Fire," a series of novels set in the fictional land of Westeros. While"Game of Thrones" is seen as a masterful move by HBO today, when it was first greenlit, there was no guarantee that it was going to be the massive success it became. Episode budgets were in excess of $15 million each, unheard of in the industry previously.
Plepler was also the reason that shows like"Veep,""True Blood,""Little Big Lies" and"Silicon Valley" were greenlit. Also on the docket is a series based on the beloved graphic novel"Watchmen" by Alan Moore. The show takes place in an alternative America and is set in 1985. Nixon is still president and costumed superheroes are part of everyday life. However, when an old comrade is murdered, vigilante Rorschach uncovers a plot to kill and discredit all past and current superheroes."I don't know how people choose good content, but he had it," Pachter said of Plepler.
Pachter noted that Netflix had more than 200 original shows that it put out in 2018, while HBO had less than two dozen. The two companies had the same number of Emmy nominations.
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