The premiere of 'Game Of Thrones' TOPPED the 1st week of Nielsen's LGBTQ rating report card!

The Nielsen ratings show that the show's first episode is right at the top...

Published: 星期五,4月 19, 2019 16:00 下午 GMT-06:00

Kunal Nirmal Kothari

The premiere episode of the final season of Game Of Thrones (GOT) managed to create the mammoth impact it was supposed to and went on to top every possible rating chart there is. The reason we are saying this is because the show has now created history as it went on to top Nielsen's inaugural weekly ratings for same-gender partner homes.

Yes! That's right.

According to reports, in the first attempt of having ratings categorized, the premiere of Game Of Thrones: The Final Season went on to top with massive numbers. Nielsen announced a while ago on how it is expanding its reporting to include same-gender couples in an effort to have a better reflection and acceptance of the LGBTQ community. The several thousands of people participating in the survey were given the option to state whether their spouse of partner they are living with is of same gender.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, For the week of April 8, the most-watched shows on cable and broadcast TV ''Game of Thrones premiere on HBO and the NCAA men's basketball championship on CBS " also topped the rankings among same-gender partner homes. About 191,000 people in those homes watched Game of Thrones the night it aired, and nearly 177,000 tuned into CBS' basketball game.

The number of LGBTQ viewers for Game of Thrones was almost three times that of the No. 2 cable show, MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, in keeping with the HBO show's overall dominance of the cable rankings.