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Few television series have captured the nation’s attention and imagination like “Game of Thrones.” Other shows are as complex (like “Lost” or “Westworld”) along with other shows have gotten rabid yet broad fandoms (think about the “The Sopranos” and “Breaking Bad”). But rare may be the show which has been both.

Much press has got to equating the end of “Bet on Thrones” and no more “Marvel’s Avengers,” because neither has much else it compare to. Both have already been cultural touchstones through the entire decade, פרסום צימרים they are multifaceted ensemble mysteries waiting to get revealed, they are ending nearly simultaneously, are leaving a legacy of changing the media. And פרסום צימרים both elicit deep, honest emotion and connection from their fans. Fates of GoT Starks and Avengers Starks alike come like deaths inside the family.

In nowadays of streaming and פרסום צימרים binging and social media that “Game of Thrones” spent my childhood years in, what does that mean for shows to check out in the foreseeable future? How has “Bet on Thrones” changed the way we watch TV?

The in the past whole world of 2011

When “Bet on Thrones” premiered on April 17, 2011, the media world would have been a different place. Netflix had only begun streaming video 36 months prior and was two years from creating its first original series, “House of Cards.” HBO Go (the app for subscribers) was only a year old and HBO Now (the app for non-subscribers) was three years away. Twitter had half a gamers it can today. And פרסום צימרים the amount of scripted shows on TV was waiting to balloon by 86 percent, from 266 in 2011 to 495 in 2018. On that date, the GoT pilot garnered just 2.22 million viewers, 10 million under watch now.