{"id":658715,"date":"2026-06-26T04:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658715\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T04:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:27:10","slug":"house-of-the-dragon-season-3-premiere-down-8-from-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658715\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;House Of The Dragon&#8217; Season 3 Premiere Down 8% From Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/house-of-the-dragon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_house-of-the-dragon\" data-tag=\"house-of-the-dragon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">House of the Dragon<\/a> has returned, and so far the Season 3 audience is roughly on par with its predecessor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Season 3 premiere had attracted 21.5M global viewers in the first three days across <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo\" data-tag=\"hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a> and HBO Max, Warner Bros. Discovery said Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThat\u2019s down about 8% from Season 2\u2019s 23.4M viewers in three days, but it\u2019s still a strong enough audience retention for the season debut. A decline was somewhat expected given that the show (as many do) <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/06\/house-of-the-dragon-season-2-premiere-viewership-down-hbo-1235977133\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">also lost viewers between Seasons 1 and 2<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSpeaking of, WBD says that weekly viewership for Season 2 tripled leading into Sunday night\u2019s Season 3 premiere, indicating there are some re-watchers and likely a few new eyes on the series. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSeason 2 debuted to 7.8M viewers on its first day of availability, down from 10M for Season 1. Also, per WBD, Season 1 episodes are now averaging\u00a092.2M lifetime viewers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe eight-episode season will debut new episodes weekly on Sunday nights at 9 p.m. ET\/PT on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max leading up to the season finale on August 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHouse of the Dragon\u00a0is from co-creator\/executive producers George R.R. Martin; co-creator\/co-showrunner\/EP <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ryan-condal\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ryan-condal\" data-tag=\"ryan-condal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Condal<\/a>; co-showrunner\/EP\/director, Miguel Sapochnik; and EPs Sara Hess, Jocelyn Diaz, Vince Gerardis, Ron Schmidt. It\u2019s based on Martin\u2019s\u00a0Fire &amp; Blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"House of the Dragon has returned, and so far the Season 3 audience is roughly on par with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,1636,46695,221146,391,21009,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-658715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo","tag-house-of-the-dragon","tag-ryan-condal","tag-tv","tag-tv-ratings","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}