Not only is the show popular - it is also expensiveīack in its earlier seasons, an average “Game of Thrones” episode cost about $6 million to make.
Let’s do the numbers on the number one show in the world : Thanks to high production values and expensive talent, it takes a whole lot of money to create a season of “Game of Thrones.” Those viewership numbers don’t come cheap. That’s a 50 percent increase from last year’s premiere viewership. The seventh season premiere broke two more records when 16.1 million total viewers tuned in at the time of the broadcast and sent 2.4 million tweets while watching the show. Last year, in its sixth season, the show had a record-breaking 25.7 million viewers per episode across all platforms if you account for delayed viewers, according to Variety.
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By 2014, it had surpassed “The Sopranos” as the most popular HBO series when it reached 20 million viewers. Martin’s book series, “A Song of Ice and Fire” - is well underway. The penultimate season of “Game of Thrones” - a popular HBO show based on George R. Viewers in the UK can catch up via Sky Atlantic and NOW TV. Game of Thrones aired on HBO in the US, and you can also catch up on the show via Hulu. Just one whole episode devoted to the death of Ser Pounce."Īll jokes aside, if this scene is indeed real, then it certainly would have sucked any remaining sympathy we had for Cersei (and Benioff and Weiss) out of the final season, so we’re glad we didn’t get to see it. "If you buy the super-extended, super-charged Game of Thrones box set that comes out," he said, "the death of Ser Pounce will be in there. Weiss teased fans with the possibility of some cat-death deleted footage. Ser Pounce's death was so horrible we couldn’t even put it on the air." "So she came up with her most diabolical. "Cersei hated the name 'Ser Pounce' so much she could not allow him to survive," Benioff said. Yes, according to D&D, Ser Pounce is dead, murdered by Cersei. Now, this one may be a joke (let’s face it, it’s probably a joke), but as it comes direct from showrunners Benioff and Weiss themselves, we’re going to have to accept it as canon. We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. In fact, it's so significant, it might be the reason we've still never seen it. But the miscarriage sequence really should have stayed in, because it completely transforms Cersei's season-eight story arc. Possibly because season seven had another birth sequence, part of Jon Snow's lineage reveal. Unlike everything else on this list, the season seven deleted scenes still haven't been made available but descriptions can be found on YouTube, and one of them is fairly significant.Īs it turns out, a miscarriage scene was scripted and shot but ultimately cut from the show. Was she pregnant or wasn’t she? Fans were confused by her tearful moment in the season eight premiere when Euron promised to put a baby in her (charming) and she glugged some Arbor wine (despite her turning down wine in front of Tyrion is what clued him into her pregnancy in the first place).īut with her pregnancy continuing to be a plot point throughout the season, surely they’d have told us if the baby didn’t exist?Īs it turns out, the show knew exactly what happened to Cersei and Jaime's baby, it just didn’t want to tell us. There was plenty of debate amongst fans during Game Of Thrones’ final season around Cersei’s baby.