Nearly 10 million people tuned in to the
Game of Thrones
spinoff
House of the Dragon
Sunday, making it the most watched series premiere in HBO
The series was also the No. 1 trending topic on Twitter Sunday, and garnered more than 2 million Google searches that day
House of the Dragon
is a prequel to
Game of Thrones
, set nearly 200 years before the events of the latter show
It is based on the novel
Fire & Blood
by George R.R. Martin and tells the story of the House of Targaryen.
Ahead of the premiere of
House of the Dragon
,
Game of Thrones
had its highest weekly audience on HBO Max last week.