TV Ratings: 'Game of Thrones' Finale Hits Record High with 16.5 Million Viewers

Game of Thrones' seventh season solidified it as the biggest show on TV — and Sunday's finale further cemented that status. The abbreviated penultimate run, just seven episodes, has been averaging an astonishing 31 million viewers per episode once live, time-shifted, on-demand and streaming plays are tallied. That's up 34 percent from the previous record-shattering season in 2016. As for Sunday's finale, the last episode that will air for potentially 16 months, HBO logged another all-time high 16.5 million viewers with live tune-in and night-of streams.

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