The odds of it getting a second season, no matter what are pretty high because they're going to figure that it's better to keep going in hopes that the audience will build than to cut it off after one season. Dragon flops the odds of HBO investing in another live action Game of Thrones show anytime soon, go way down. If the Dragon is a hit, green lighting one of those other eight projects is going to be extremely tempting. So potentially decades of content hinge on the show, not just one show.
HBO hopes to win the streaming wars with House of the Dragon, a prequel to Game of Thrones. But GoT’s disastrous finale disappointed viewers, and the prequel is being released as HBO’s parent company, Warner Brothers Discovery, undertakes massive cost-cutting measures. Still: DRAGONS.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Tori Dominquez, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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