A television series doesn’t become a wildly popular global phenomenon without racking up some eye-popping statistics along the way.
With that in mind, we broke out the calculators to present a look at “Game of Thrones” by the numbers as HBO’s epic fantasy series prepares to launch its eighth and final season on Sunday, April 14.
Take a look:
4: Number of beheadings — in the pilot episode.
6: Days it recently took for a “super fan” to binge all 67 episodes of the show (nearly 11 episodes per day) on Hulu’s streaming site. To binge the entire series nonstop, it would take approximately 2 days, 15 hours and 30 minutes. (Source: Hulu).
7: The number of known victims at the Red Wedding massacre. (They include: King Robb Stark, Lady Catelyn Stark, Queen Talisa Stark, Lord Gregor Forrester, Robb and Talisa’s unborn child, Ser Wendel Manderly and Grey Wind, Robb’s dire wolf).
8: Countries in which the show has been filmed, including Northern Ireland, Croatia, Iceland, Morocco, Spain, Malta, Canada and the United States.
9: Number of episodes that Ned Stark (Sean Bean) appeared in before his brutal demise. (The fateful episode “Baelor” aired on June 12, 2011).
10: Months spent filming — just six episodes — for the eighth and final season.
11: Weeks of on-location night filming lavished on Season 8’s spectacular Battle of Winterfell. (Additional weeks were spent filming scenes in a studio. (Source: Entertainment Weekly)
47: Emmy Awards captured by “Game of Thrones,” out of 128 nominations. The series was honored as TV’s Outstanding Drama in 2015, 2016 and 2018. (Source: Television Academy).
70: The age of “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin.
78: The number of pages Entertainment Weekly devoted to the series for its March 15/22 double issue — along with 16 different covers for rabid collectors.
93: Months that have passed since Martin last published a book (“A Dance With Dragons”) in his fantasy series that inspired the TV show.
100: The number of things “Game of Thrones” fans “should know and do before they die,” as suggested in a fun book by Oakland-based author Rowan Kaiser.
186: The number of deaths through seven seasons — from a field of 330 “important” characters — according to Australian researchers Reidar Lystad and Benjamin Brown. That’s a 56.4 percent mortality rate, with all but two of those demises resulting from injury, burns or poisoning. (Source: The journal “Injury Epidemiology”).
432: The total number of minutes of run time for all six episodes of Season 8.
15 million-plus: The number of dollars spent — per episode — to produce the final season. (Source: Entertainment Weekly).
32.8 million: The average audience for Season 7 (on all platforms), the show’s most popular. Viewership has grown each season: Season 1, 9.3 million; Season 2, 11.6 million; Season 3, 14.4 million; Season 4, 19.1 million; Season 5, 20.2 million; Season 6, 25.7 million. (Source: USA Today).
