Record numbers for Game of Thrones kickoff

By Jill Serjeant
Updated April 16 2019 - 1:18pm, first published 1:16pm
HBO's Game of Thrones premiered its eighth and final season on Sunday with record US viewership.
HBO's Game of Thrones premiered its eighth and final season on Sunday with record US viewership.

Some 17.4 million Americans have watched the first episode of the final season of television's Game of Thrones - a record audience for the medieval fantasy series.