Today in show business news: HBO has a big ratings hit, Oprah
re-ups with LaToya Jackson, and there's a new man in charge
of American Idol. Also: Hobbit​.  Sunday night's season finale
of Game of Thrones reeled in a total of 6.3 million people over
two airings, capping off a season that saw the show grow to
become HBO's most popular show since The Sopranos. An average of
13.6 million people watched each episode of Game of Thrones this
season, through a combination of live viewing, DVR, On Demand,
and HBO GO. That's a lot of people! But it can't compare to The
Sopranos's height of 14.4 million, especially when you consider
that most people didn't have DVR or On Demand back then. And of
course HBO GO didn't exist at all. Meaning they just watched
straight-up regular style, all 14.4 million of them. Well not
all of them, but a lot of them. Most of them, probably. Anyway,
the point is that Game of Thrones is a big, big hit for the
network, which had been sort of lacking a flagship show for a
little while there. G