{"id":487144,"date":"2026-02-20T07:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487144\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T07:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:33:12","slug":"a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-episode-5-hits-series-ratings-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487144\/","title":{"rendered":"A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Episode 5 Hits Series Ratings High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/tag\/a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u201cA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms\u201d<\/a> is continuing its ratings gains, with Episode 5 hitting a new series ratings high.<\/p>\n<p>Episode 5, which featured a large-scale battle and ended with a devastating death,  tallied up 9.2 million cross-platform viewers in the U.S. in its first 3 days of availability, per live-plus-three-day figures from Nielsen and Warner Bros. Discovery.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d spinoff series is averaging nearly 13 million U.S. viewers per episode and is on pace to be the third biggest series debut since the launch of HBO Max, per HBO Max. The streamer also touts that three-day viewership for each episode has grown week-over-week, Episode 4, which had an early debut ahead of the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"the-wrap-read-more__image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/creative-content\/tv-shows\/knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-episode-5-baelor-death-explained-game-of-thrones\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AKOTSK-E5-Baelor.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Bertie Carvel as Baelor Targaryen in \u201cA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms\u201d Season 1, Episode 5 (Credit: Steffan Hill\/HBO)\"   data-portal-copyright=\"TheWrap\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several series in HBO\u2019s drama lineup are seeing viewership growth, including \u201cThe Pitt,\u201d which is pacing 50% higher than its freshman season as it averages 12 million U.S. viewers thus\u00a0far. Season 2 has seen consecutive week-over-week growth, with Season 2, Episode 6 scoring 7 million U.S. viewers in its first three days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndustry,\u201d which is gearing up to launch its penultimate episode, also hit a new series ratings high with Season 4, Episode 6 drawing 1.1 million U.S. viewers in its first three days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndustry\u201d Season 4 is pacing ahead of all previous installments \u2014 including a 30% rise from Season \u2014 and the season has seen consecutive week-over-week growth, with the exception of the early release of Episode 5 for the Super Bowl.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, HBO\u2019s new late night series \u201cNeighbors,\u201d which debuted Feb. 13 to 1.6 million U.S. cross-platform viewers in its first 3 days, on track to become HBO\u2019s biggest debut for a non-sports unscripted series in HBO Max history. \u201cNeighbors\u201d as grown to over delivered 2 million U.S. viewers since its debut.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"the-wrap-read-more__image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/media-platforms\/tv\/the-pitt-nielsen-ratings-season-2-premiere\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/the-pitt-katherine-lanasa-hbo-max.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"the-pitt-katherine-lanasa-hbo-max\"   data-portal-copyright=\"TheWrap\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms\u201d is continuing its ratings gains, with Episode 5 hitting a new series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[99162,49,48,75,9346,5862,5863,14296,348,9347],"class_list":["post-487144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-freemium","tag-hbo","tag-hbo-max","tag-ratings","tag-tv","tag-wrappro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}