This week’s episode had 17.8 million viewers on Sunday, setting a new single-night record for the series, beating the previous series high from two weeks ago, HBO said. That figure includes viewing from HBO’s digital channels like HBO Now.
The third episode of the show’s eighth — and final — season ran at 1 hour and 22 minutes and featured the long awaited battle sequence with the White Walkers.
On television, 12 million people watched the episode on Sunday, narrowly missing the record set by the seventh season finale in August 2017, according to Nielsen.
HBO also said on Tuesday that the eighth season premiere episode has now been watched by more than 38 million viewers, a staggering figure at a time of declining ratings and fragmented viewing. The most recent season of “Game of Thrones” had an average of 32.8 million viewers.
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There are three episodes left in the show’s final season. The finale will run on May 19.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.