The Targaryen House Grows: ‘House of the Dragon’ is renewed for a second season

With only one episode of “House of the Dragon” released, HBO Max has decided to renew the “Game of Thrones” prequel series for a second season, anticipating the success of the first chapter, and with the confidence of the formula used in the original series. and replicated for this production.

This week, on the eve of the premiere of HOTD’s unnamed second episode, HBO Max has officially renewed the series for a second season Of which we have no more details, since the first episode of the episodes, released weekly on the streaming platform, is not yet over.

It will be Sunday, August 28, when HBO will present the second episode of “The House of the Dragon”, a week after setting an audience record for a first series. To make fans and the general public think that we will have a new streaming phenomenon, like the parent series, GOT. Although, in this case, it must be considered that the premiere of the series ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ is also approaching.

Two fantasy series belonging to major franchises will compete to establish themselves as the best fantasy series of the year, something similar to what happened with ‘Vikings’ (History Channel / Netflix) and ‘The Last Kingdom’ (Netflix). Unlike “House of the Dragon” and “The Rings of Power”, which represent two different streaming houses, the first for HBO Max and the second for Amazon Prime Video.

“The house of the dragon” with historical documentation in its first episode

“The Dragon House” premiered on August 21st, setting an audience record in Latin America, the United States and Europe. It managed to garner the largest audience for a first original series in HBO history in its first episode in the United States and, currently, more than 20 million viewers have already seen the first episode.

In Spain, the drama that premiered on HBO Max got the most viewers of a new series or movie on a streaming service on the platform.

Based on the novel “Fire and Blood” by George RR MartinThe 10-part series, which premieres next nine on Monday, is set 200 years before the “Game of Thrones” storyline and tells the story of House Targaryen.

The drama series stars Paddy Considine, Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best, Sonoya Mizuno, Fabien Frankel and Rhys Ifans.

Francesca Orsi, Executive Vice President of Programming at HBO, highlighted how the whole team managed with the first season to make a television series “which has already established itself as essential” and expressed her enthusiasm to “continue the story of the epic saga of House Targaryen in the second season “. (With information from EFE).