House of the Dragon Has Been Renewed for Season 2 After a Single Episode
glamour.comHouse of the Dragon has been renewed for a second season, HBO announced on Friday. This news comes as no surprise, considering debuted to record-breaking numbers for HBO, luring more than 20 million viewers across platforms—the largest audience for any new original series in network history.“We are beyond proud of what the entire House of the Dragon team has accomplished with season one,” Francesca Orsi, executive vice president of HBO programming, said in a statement. “Our phenomenal cast and crew undertook a massive challenge and exceeded all expectations, delivering a show that has already established itself as must-see TV.”The highly anticipated prequel series centers on the Targaryen family and takes place about 200 years before ’s Daenerys Targaryen ascended the iron throne.
Given that only a single episode has dropped, it’s unclear which from House of the Dragon will reprise their roles for the second season.
The show primarily centers on the fifth king of Westeros, Viserys I (Paddy Considine), and his daughter, Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly Alcock)—although no beloved characters are safe on Thrones.“There’s a lot of opportunity for expansion,” author George R.
R. Martin previously of adapting his 2018 novel, Fire & Blood, for this spin-off. “That’s what we’ll find a lot of in the series. [What cocreator] Ryan [Condal] and his team of writers have been doing great so far is to do an expansion that does not contradict the book.
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