'Game of Thrones' Lands Series Record Ratings With "The Long Night" | THR News - video Dailymotion

'Game of Thrones' racked up another huge body count with "The Long Night" — both onscreen and in terms of people watching.

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00:00Our enemy doesn't tire, doesn't stop. They're coming.

00:09Now we had one hell of a body count during Sunday night's episode of Game of Thrones

00:13and we're not just talking about on screen. The highly anticipated episode,

00:17appropriately titled The Long Night, given that it was the show's longest episode ever,

00:22delivered the HBO series' largest audience with a record of 17.8 million viewers,

00:27including replays and streaming. Now, the episode was solely devoted to the epic Battle of

00:32Winterfell, which basically pitted the forces of the dead, aka the White Walkers and the

00:37big bad Night King, against the forces of the living, aka Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen and

00:42all of their rally troops. The viewership also surpasses the 17.4 million First Night

00:48viewers for the season premiere on April 14th. Not only that, but The Long Night's on-air

00:52debut drew 12.02 million people, the second largest audience ever for an initial airing

00:58of Game of Thrones, only trailing behind the season 7 finale, which drew in 12.07 million

01:03viewers. Game of Thrones is HBO's most watched series ever and currently the biggest

01:08scripted series on TV by a wide margin. And it looks like social media also seems to agree.

01:13Twitter says The Long Night sparked 7.8 million tweets, the most ever for an episode

01:19of a scripted series. And we still have three more episodes to go before the big finale.

01:23We need to end this one.

01:25Alright, for more Game of Thrones updates head on over to THR.com and until next time

01:29for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.