The HBO Overall Ratings See a Sharp Decline
And as you can imagine, the decline began to occur after its biggest show, “Game of Thrones” ended in May 2019. The United States television network HBO (Home Box Office), which serves an audience spread all over the world, has suffered a sharp decline in its annual viewership in 2020 in the aftermath of the ending of one of the greatest television show on planet earth (arguably not better than Breaking Bad), which happened in May 2019. The David Benioff and D.B. Weiss’ series pulled the audience for HBO like a magnet. The streaming service used to stream hit series like “The Sopranos,” but there is nothing on the platform that can even think of competing with the viewership of Game of Thrones. A report has emerged courtesy of Variety that has revealed that almost half of the R-Rated audience (adult audience, i.e., aged between 18 to 49) refrained from watching anything on HBO. Furthermore, the number of paid subscriptions also witnessed a drop of 38 percent in the viewership. It...