The streaming war reaches its peak with the Simultaneous broadcast of two of the greatest fantasy hits in television history, “The House of the Dragon” and “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”. The “Game of Thrones” prequel arrived on HBO Max on August 22 and was a huge hit in the first two weeks, while JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth prequel arrived on Friday, August 2 at the dawn of Prime. Video with its first two chapters, surrounded by enormous expectation.
Due to their coincidence in time and their membership in the epic fantasy genre, both productions have been and will continue to be constantly compared. Although recently, an executive producer of “The Rings of Power”, Lindsey Weber, was of the opinion that the rivalry between the two series was “manufactured by the press”the truth is that the tension due to the televised confrontation seems palpable, especially on the part of HBO, which has decided to do a little counter-programming releasing the first episode of “The House of the Dragon” for free on YouTube on the same day as the premiere of “The Rings of Power”.
The pilot is available on the US HBO Max account (in the original English version, of course), but no geo-blocking, so it can also be seen from Spain without any problems. For now, the chapter is not on the streamer’s YouTube account in our country.
The beginning of the Targaryen story managed to attract nearly 10 million viewers in the United States alone on its first day on HBO platforms, making it the best premiere in HBO history. the same thing happened in Spain, where the series has emerged as the best HBO or HBO Max premiere, above any series or movie. But most impressive is that, instead of falling into its second week as usual, the series managed to break that viewership record with its second episode.
The premiere of “The House of the Dragon” caused a decline in the HBO Max app in North America due to the influx of viewers trying to play the episode, which the Warner platform attributed via an official statement to the Fire device. TV, which curiously is an Amazon exclusive, which it has listed as an isolated perpetrator of the fall.
Second season with changes
After the historic auditions of the first episode, HBO has announced the official renewal of “The House of the Dragon” for a second season, before the premiere of the second chapter. However, the series team will have a major change from the first season, as one of its creators left the fiction. Miguel Sapochnik, who created the spin-off with Ryan Condal, left his position as showrunner for the second season, after several years of hard work to launch the series. On the other hand, the return of Alan Taylor to Westeros is confirmed, who directed some of the most acclaimed episodes of “Game of Thrones” and will act as director and executive producer from the next season of “The House of the Dragon”.
Source: E Cartelera
