Game of Thrones Season 4 viewership ratings overview 

Game of Thrones Season 4 viewership ratings overview

By Hear Me Roar on June 22, 2014 in Editorial, Speculation.

Bang! We start with the graphics right away (click to enlarge, first hour only, shows with >10 episode runs condensed to fit, yada yada). Are you suffering from the post-season blues already? This Sunday will be about numbers instead of about a new episode – and I would prefer it to be the other way around as well.

This season, the show quietly passed one of the million marks already before it started airing again, between seasons; it premiered to an audience of (much) more than 6 million for the first time (6.64 million to be exact). The next watershed was passed midway through the season, when 7 million were broken by episode 405 (7.16 million). The absolute record was reached by episode 407 – 7.20 million people tuned in during the first airing. After that, the numbers stayed in the same range, with the finale seen by 7.09 million viewers. Some percentages:

Other, perhaps even more important records have also been set. This year, 

became the biggest show in HBO history in terms of total viewership. The number has increased since, and the latest count stands at 18.6 million viewers across all platforms. The final episode of the season, likewise, set a new piracy record and is on the way to becoming the most shared episode of any TV show this year.

Hear Me Roar: As always, we turn to next season speculations at the end. Where do you think the numbers can take us from here? I believe there is still potential for new viewers to join between seasons, so the 7.20 million can definitely be beaten (early?) next year.

Tagged exponential numbers, Piracy, ratings, record

Gwendoline Christie details the intense, brutal battle between Brienne and The Hound 63 Comments

Brienne of Tarth set out on a journey this season, to keep an oath to Catelyn Stark, and ensure the safety of her two young daughters. In the finale she almost had …

Have you already read all the books and/or don\'t care about spoilers? You can reveal all the spoilers in the comments with the click of a link below.

I think next year will mark the peak of the show’s popularity, and after that it will dip a little. It won’t go much over 8 million for the first viewing and 20 overall.

Yeah i think you’re right events slow down abit while the final chapters of the story are set up.

One notes that’s Neilson’s for a week, episode viewings, premium viewings, seems they count DVR viewings , don’t know how them know that?

We really have never gotten any non-USA numbers, even for Canada!

I, for one, won’t be watching next season, unless Winds of Winter comes out a bit before. I’m going to do what I, among countless other people, have repeatedly told purists when they whined: I’m going to keep my shit to myself, stop watching and focus on the books. It’s for two reasons, mainly:

Besides my dissapointment with the show writers for making totally unnecessary changes for the worse, and essentially killing my expectation and excitement for next season, the following will most likely get ahead from the books in some storylines (Brienne and Sansa for example) and could hint at how relevant/irrelevant current book storylines are, and what can we expect of them.

On another note, and as a suggestion for the site: Perhaps for next season you should include some sort of guide to explain or warn book readers where the show has gone beyond the books, in case anyone who wants to keep watching can do so but also skip the scene where there are book spoilers.

I think upper-mid 7s average is a reasonable expectation for S5. I think we will see it much more flat next year as the viewership reaches its peak. If there is a particularly eventful episode we might see it hit just above an 8.0 at some point, but if it does I think that will definitely be the last million marker we see the show cross. On the other hand, I think we will also see a noticeable dip for mothers day like in seasons 3 and 4, with the numbers dropping to the low 7s (making it the first season to have an episode viewed by less people than an episode in one of the previous seasons). As for total viewers, I think 20-21 million is a reasonable estimate.

Overall I think season 5 will be the peak for viewership, with the show very steadily declining over the following 2 (3?) seasons, finishing with approximately the same range of numbers as the second half of season 4.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict a milestone 10 million viewers for the Season 5 finale. The only basis I have for this is the binge-watch phenomenon. It worked for Breaking Bad’s final run, with new viewers binging on the first four and a half seasons prior to the airing of “Blood Money,” propelling that episode’s ratings to 5.92 million viewers. The finale, “Felina,” closed off the series with a powerhouse 10.28 million viewers.

Game of Thrones hasn’t entered its final season yet, but with the show at its most popular, and with cultural osmosis simply at work, new viewers can binge-watch all four seasons and bolster the Season 5 premiere. More than ever, the current library of four seasons deliver a complete narrative arc: the beginning and end of The War Of The Five Kings, Act I of ASOIAF. Anything goes at that point, and with many audience favorites setting off into uncharted waters, figuratively and literally, viewership will be at its strongest come Season 5.

Get ready to live under a rock if you seriously plan on tryjng to stay unspoiled when the show eventually passes the book. That will be a tall order indeed

Do I bitch and moan when the show changes things or does things differently that I don’t like? Absolutely. Will I still watch? Ofcourse. ASOIAF is an addiction for me and I will stay to the bitter end

That’s not a good idea at all. This is a site for the show. It’s like a show watcher reading the books and asking which chapters they can skip because they’ve already seen it on the show or asking which to skip because they want to see it on the show first.

If you’re not going to watch the show in it’s entirety you should stay off this site. Also it’ll be almost impossible to remain 100% unspoiled unless you avoid social media, the internet in general and even people.

It looks like the trend is there are big jumps in between seasons, when we gain new viewers from binge-watchers who finally catch up on the show, but not huge increases in the middle of seasons. That’s probably due to the nature of the show–you can’t just tune in during a random episode and figure out what’s going on. We did get a huge boost from Joffrey’s death which had the internet buzzing so loudly that I think a bunch of people who had never watched the show took notice.

What an impressive growth from Season 3 to Season 4! Extremely impressive! I hope that as the show enters the true spoiler phase, that is, it goes beyond the books, that there will be another increase in viewership. This will hopefully happen a little next season, and then in full effect from Season 6. I too hope for 10 million viewers!

Im sure it will kill the 9 million barrier next year.

Alex Graves on the scene fans were expecting to see

David Benioff and Dan Weiss on heading to Dorne for Season 5, and why it should be the strongest season yet

David Benioff and Dan Weiss on the finale's big moments, and prepping for Season 5

Season 4, Episode 10 – The Children – Open Chat

Tatters commented on Game of Thrones Season 4 viewership ratings overview

Kay commented on Game of Thrones Season 4 viewership ratings overview

outdoorcats commented on Game of Thrones Season 4 viewership ratings overview

Game of Thrones star Gethin Anthony cast as Charles Manson

Game of Thrones producers confirm Dorne for season 5

Game of Thrones season 4 finale sets new piracy record

Cinematically Speaking: Edge of Tomorrow, X-Men, and Season Finales

Game of Thrones Finale Sets Illegal Download Record

'Game of Thrones' Meets 'The Brady Bunch' in New Video

Winter Is Coming is your source of news, rumors, speculation, and discussion for HBO’s Game of Thrones, the television adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series.