Westeros Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Via TV By The Numbers, we now have the ratings for the premiere, and they are pretty good—3.9 million first airing viewings (just shy of the 4 million many hoped for), but with a 2.0 in the important 18-49 demographic, which is the highest the show has ever received.Besides that, additional airings garnered a further 2.9 million viewers, raising that total to 6.278 million, and that’s without On Demand or HBO Go factored in.I think it’s safe to say that it’s just a matter of time for the pick up of season 3 to be announced! Visit the Site! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Mongoose Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 UK numbers were a little disappointing at 520,000, which is below the season 1 premiere, but still high for Sky Atlantic.By comparison, the Mad Men season 5 premiere got 72,000 viewers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmanion Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 I read something on the ez tv website that rumoured back in December that HBO were already considering green lighting seasons 3 and 4 to shoot back to back to cover A storm of swords.Edit: Here is the link I know its only rumour but still interestinghttp://eztv.it/tvnews/5862/hbo-is-considering-adding-two-more-seasons-of-game-of-thrones/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aegnor Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 The producers have already said that that is not possible Imanion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David C. Hunter Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Almost 4 million for the premiere is good. As long as there are 'new' fans they will green light a season. Here's hoping it ends on a 4.1 or 4.2 million rating.Strange the UKs numbers were down...up everywhere else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abaddon Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Almost 4 million for the premeire first showing is very good, but not really surprising. I have to admit I am a little surprised by the 2.9 million from the additional airings. From memory (so I could be wrong :)) I don't recall much over 1 million last year from the additional viewings, maybe 1.2 mil?. An additional 2.9 totally blows my personal estimate away, and the grand total for the night (again not counting HBO GO) is fantastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unRobert Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Awesome that it was the highest rated show on television for Sunday. Beating out Mad Men in the UK, yes, but also here in the US by around 1 million viewers! Nice! And Mad Men is on AMC...I do wonder how negatively the ratings are affected by illegal viewing (streaming, torrents). I would assume a show of this genre, with their audience demographic coupled with the fact that it is on premium cable has a whole lot of people downloading it to view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baitac Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 We've participated in the Nielsen process a couple of times. We had to document whether or not we watched live or if we used a DVR. There must be a mathematical formula for everything. I'm hoping that HBO is pleased with its numbers (live plus DVR). BTW, we watched it live PLUS we DVRd it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boojam Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 IMDB gives no release dates for any country for season 2.We know the US and UK one.So one wonders what the world wide viewers will be.Still no total numbers for Season 1 for Europe.Maybe HBO is mulling one more season or several green lighted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TyrionTargaryen Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 I was at a premiere party for this. 3 of us out of 10 have HBO so that means 2 of us didn't add to the viewership. This week, we will be back to normal watching all 3 of our HBO's.There were probably a lot of other people that did the same. 10 of us equaled 1 viewing.Hooray for Season 3 should be announced shortly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyjoy67 Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Almost 4 million for the premiere is good. As long as there are 'new' fans they will green light a season. Here's hoping it ends on a 4.1 or 4.2 million rating.Strange the UKs numbers were down...up everywhere elseI think it's down to lack of promotion. I don't know many people here in the UK that have heard of GoT. Very few of my mates, bar the ones I've persuaded, have watched it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baitac Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Another thing. My college kids were unable to connect via their XBox for some reason (Xfinity). That's a bunch of students that missed out. Blah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Strange the UKs numbers were down...up everywhere elseRe: UK numbers - Someone mentioned that the S1 premiere was on a 'free weekend', thus it is not a comparable number to the S2 premiere. I could be wrong, though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westerosi Dude Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Re: UK numbers - Someone mentioned that the S1 premiere was on a 'free weekend', thus it is not a comparable number to the S2 premiere. I could be wrong, though...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Atlantic#Most_watched_programmesIt seems that not only the S1 premiere, but the whole of S1 got substantially higher viewing figures than S2 Ep1. It's due to lack of awareness about it. If it was on BBC 1 it would probably get 5 times higher viewing figures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Mongoose Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 http://en.wikipedia....ched_programmesIt seems that not only the S1 premiere, but the whole of S1 got substantially higher viewing figures than S2 Ep1. It's due to lack of awareness about it. If it was on BBC 1 it would probably get 5 times higher viewing figures.Comparing apples to oranges there - I'm not sure what metric that is but the 520K for S2 Ep1 is the overnight data, which compares to 743K for s1 Ep1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padraig Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Comparing apples to oranges there - I'm not sure what metric that is but the 520K for S2 Ep1 is the overnight data, which compares to 743K for s1 Ep1.True.I did notice that Sky did a lot less advertising this year for GoT. At least on billboards in Ireland. Given it's popularity, I thought they'd make more of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 i've seen shed loads of advertising for season 2 on sky, though fewer bus stops etc, but this figure is lower than any episode of season 1 which is a shame. but season 3 gets greenlit based on american audiences and dvd sales which are fine so i don't really care that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 It's the full week figures that matter. Sky made a big deal about Sky Anywhere and so on, and I think we'll find that a lot more people decided when it was convenient to them. We'll know next week, I expect, what the real total viewership is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 have HBO not been greenlighting the day after the first episode of recent series? sure GOT, boardwalk empire and luck all got the nod the day after, this is just paranoia and not a legitimate worry isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abaddon Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 this is just paranoia and not a legitimate worry isn't it?Yes. Yes it is.Don't worry, be happy :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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