Game of Thrones' final season trailer has smashed a new viewing record.

According to HBO (via Entertainment Weekly), the trailer for the eighth and final season of the show, which was released on Tuesday (March 5), was watched 81 million times across YouTube, Facebook and Twitter in the first 24 hours.

So it should come as no surprise that the season 8 trailer has also managed to overtake the previous record holder – the season 7 trailer, which received 61 million views within the first 24 hours – to become the broadcaster's most viewed trailer ever.

Of course, we'd expect nothing else really, considering it's been over a year since we've had any substantial new Game of Thrones show footage.

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The two-minute trailer teased the return of many familiar faces, including Tormund (Kristofer Hivju) and Beric (Richard Dormer), who have survived the explosive encounter with the Night King and Viserion at Eastwatch, as well as Brienne, Ser Jorah and Gendry – ready to wage war against the Night King's army of the dead.

The trailer also teases that Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) might join Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), as he vows: "I promised to fight for the living. I intend to keep that promise."

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Meanwhile, HBO's former boss Richard Plepler has promised that the show's final season will be "spectacular", praising showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss for creating "six movies" with the final episodes.

"They knew the bar was high. They've exceeded the bar," Plepler said. "I've watched them twice without any CGI and I'm in awe. Everybody's in for an extraordinary treat of storytelling and of magical, magical production."

Game of Thrones season 8 will premiere on April 14, 2019. The show airs on HBO in the US and Sky Atlantic and NOW TV in the UK. Season 7 is now available to buy on DVD, Blu-ray or digital download.

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