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Big battle brings record viewing for ‘Game of Thrones’

LOS ANGELES

HBO’s “Game of Thrones” has once again ridden a high body count to a record viewer count.

Sunday’s big-battle episode, the third of the final season, drew 17.8 million viewers either live on the network at 9 p.m., streamed, on-demand or in a rerun that aired later that night, the Nielsen company said.

That made it the week’s most-watched show on cable or broadcast and the most-watched one-day event in HBO’s four decades of existence.

For the week of April 22-28, the top 5 shows, their networks and viewerships:

“Game of Thrones,” HBO, 12.02 million; “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 11.85 million; “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 10.49 million; “60 Minutes,” CBS, 9.27 million; “American Idol,” ABC, 8.74 million.

Associated Press