“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” wrapped up its first season with another series viewership high.
The conclusion of the “Game of Thrones” spinoff, which only consisted of six episodes in its first season, scored 9.5 million viewers in the U.S. in its first 3 days of availability, per live-plus-three-day figures from Nielsen and Warner Bros. Discovery.
The finale builds on the momentum “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” has seen this season, with Episode 5, which featured the tragic death of a beloved character, hitting 9.2 million viewers, which marked a series high at the time.
Viewership for the finale was up 42% from the premiere episode, which still managed an impressive 6.7 million viewers across HBO and HBO Max within three days of its premiere. The series launch landed within the top three series launches in HBO Max history.
“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is averaging more than 14 million viewers in the U.S. and 26 million viewers globally. Viewership has grown week-over-week throughout the season’s run, with the exception ofthe early release of episode 4 ahead of the Super Bowl.
The series has been renewed for a second season, and showrunner Ira Parker told TheWrap he would hope to do 12 seasons of the series, explaining, “I’d like to do four with Egg the boy, four with Egg the Prince and four with Egg the king — but do them every 10 years.”
“So do a pocket, Peter and Dexter can go off, have their careers, everybody goes and then in ten years we’ll come back and we’ll do another four of these,” he said. “Just chart them through their whole life, because they do have such interesting lives. It does marry up with the flagship show so well at the end.”
That said, he admitted “there’s a decent chance we do just two of these and that’s it.” “There’s a decent chance we do three of them, and we just say, ‘OK, thank you very much.’ But I love these two so much, so we’ll see,” he said.
