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[Westeros]

Word just in on the ratings for episode 3, “What is Dead May Never Die”, and the results (as reported by EW) are rock solid: a 3.8 million rating, just like last week. Now lets see if this episode and the next, and the buzz we expect them to generate—it’s really good television!—will start seeing the ratings climb.

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[_Oberyn_]

Can only go up now as the action kicks in.

[boojam]

By the by Gwendoline Christie is making some entertainment news after her appearance on the show.

Edited by boojam, 17 April 2012 - 06:13 AM.

[lockesnow]

how have the weeklong ratings built for episodes 1&2?  held true to Season 1s numbers?

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lockesnow, on 16 April 2012 - 05:23 PM, said:

how have the weeklong ratings built for episodes 1&2?  held true to Season 1s numbers?

Season 1 actually spent the first four or five weeks having a new ratings high every week until it slowed and backtracked a bit before finishing strong. The ratings went from 2.2 million (premier) to 3.0 million (finale) over the course of the season.

Season 2 started at 3.9 and has had 3.8 the last two weeks. I am hoping it can get into True Blood territory (i.e., 5.0) by the end of the season.

[Fez]

According to this Variety article so far the average weeklong audience this season is just over 11 million; compared to 9.3 million for Season 1.

[BigFatCoward]

if it kept these sort of numbers for the each season would it be likely to result in all 7 books getting made?

[Chelly]

This is good news. I also think the ratings will go up once everything begins to hit the fan. The second book and its stories were amazing.

[WinterfellGhost]

This is great news.  Hopefully the ratings will stay good and they'll make the whole series.

[Lord Godric]

No ratings for Garden of Bones yet?

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Lord Godric, on 27 April 2012 - 08:20 PM, said:

No ratings for Garden of Bones yet?

3.7

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Lord Godric, on 27 April 2012 - 08:20 PM, said:

No ratings for Garden of Bones yet?

Episode 4 dropped a little , but still running at least 1 million more a week than last year, and apparently topping all other HBO series.
Am a little surprised, I felt the first two episodes were a bit off the mark and new viewers might have been put off, but episode 3 was so much better thought word of mouth would have punched up episode 4.

Sill the show gets press and buzz, HBO must be happy with that.

Still have no reading on non north American viewers, did GB recover from the initial down blip?

[ckal]

Ep. 5 is going to have to hit home big time if we are going to see an increase to 3.8+ for Ep. 6.

I was going to say I'm not as thrilled with this season so far, but I remember feeling similar with season 1 until about ep. 5.

[salt]

I was much more impressed with season 1 at this stage.  Season 2, while still entertaining, seems dumbed-down and simplified compared to the first.  Last season you had a show with dragons and ice zombies that you could mention in the same sentence as The Wire without feeling ridiculous.  So far I don't think that's been true for season 2.

[The Anti-Targ]

I need to re-watch ep 4 to see if it improves on second viewing. On re-watch of ep 3 I felt it was a much stronger episode than all the others. Interestingly, it was the episode with the least sexual content of the season. Seems to me less sex and nudity = better quality drama so far this season, I didn't get that impression in season1. Also on re-watching ep 2 there were scenes I skipped because I found them boring (Ros+LF, Theon arriving on Pyke up until he sees Balon), but with ep 3 all scenes were worth watching.

I know I'll be skipping the Joff S&M scene on ep 4 re-watch, monumental waste of time.

[Fez]

Episode 5 hit a 3.9 according to tvbythenumbers. And its 1.9 in the demo tied the NBA playoffs for the cable lead.

ETA: So I guess the grim nature of episode 4 didn't turn off any viewers.

ETA2: In fact I believe this is actually a series high.

Edited by Fez, 01 May 2012 - 09:53 AM.

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Fez, on 01 May 2012 - 09:48 AM, said:

ETA: So I guess the grim nature of episode 4 didn't turn off any viewers.

Simply speculation but I believe the final scene of episode 4 is the reason for the slight uptick in ratings for episode 5.