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'Game of Thrones' scores record TV audience, leaves fans sad, mad

People gather before the screening of final episode of Game of Thrones on 20-meter-high screen at RZD Arena in Moscow, Russia.

More than 19 million U.S. viewers watched the series finale of television’s “Game of Thrones” - a record audience for HBO, the cable channel said on Monday.

HBO, a unit of AT&T’s Warner Media, said Sunday’s 19.3 million live television audience and viewers on its HBO GO and HBO NOW apps exceeded the previous high for the fantasy - 18.4 million, for the penultimate episode a week ago.

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