'Game Of Thrones' Set To Surpass 'Sopranos' As HBO's Biggest Show in Season 4 [UPDATED]

According to new reports, Game of Thrones is about to surpass The Sopranos as the biggest, most-watched series on HBO, and possibly television in general! Taking into account new features like HBO GO and On Demand viewership, the popular fantasy series is raking in an average of about 18 million viewers, which is just shy of The Sopranos's 18.2 million. From the looks of it, Game of Thrones will surpass it in the final two episodes of season four.

UPDATE: Game of Thrones hit the 18.4 million mark after we published the original story.

[Read our original coverage below]

This reports comes from The Hollywood Reporter, which also puts the HBO series up against every other network:

Over on the Big Four, where live-plus-7 data is the most comprehensive thing going, the recent season ended with only three series averaging north of 18 million viewers: Sunday Night Football, NCIS, and The Big Bang Theory (23.1 million viewers). Game of Thrones now tops NBC's The Blacklist as well as marquee reality shows The Voice, Dancing With the Stars, and American Idol.

In a more specific case, the article compares Game of Thrones to AMC's front-runner The Walking Dead, saying the zombie drama gets about 18.4 million viewers. So the HBO fantasy show could topple that, right? Well according to a response from AMC, THR had the numbers wrong!

The most recent season of The Walking Dead, all told, actually averaged just a shade over 28 million viewers every week. AMC, when asked for gross metrics for its flagship drama, points out that the series' fourth season jumped by nearly 10 million viewers weekly once replays, on-demand, and TV Everywhere views are taken into account. That's up from the already daunting 18.4 million viewers the series gets from the original broadcasts' live-plus-7 day ratings.

But still, surpassing The Sopranos is still pretty cool!

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