Game of Thrones Scores in Viewership

The final episode of "Game of Thrones" just scored a high rating at viewership as it brought  19.3 million people to watch it.

The finale, titled "The Iron Throne," broke the record set by last weekend's episode, "The Bells," for which 18.4 million viewers tuned in, CNN reported.

13.6 million people watched "The Iron Throne" on HBO at 9 p.m. Sunday night, making it the most-watched telecast in the network's history, according to HBO. Another viewers watched an encore presentation, or who streamed the show with the HBO Go or HBO Now apps.

According to TV standards, "The Big Bang Theory," one of TV's most popular sitcoms, nabbed 18 million viewers for its finale this week.

Fortune reported that the record is an increase of more than 10 million viewers over the show’s seventh season. And to put that number in perspective, it’s more people tuning in per week than those who watched the series finales of All in the Family, Family Ties, Home Improvement, or Frasier.

Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. George R.R. Martin's best-selling book series "A Song of Ice and Fire" was brought to the screen as HBO reflects its storytelling into the medieval fantasy epic. It's the depiction of two powerful families -- kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars and honest men -- playing a deadly game for control of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, and to sit atop the Iron Throne. The shooting locations include Northern Ireland, Malta, Croatia and Spain.