Finally, just ahead of the season finale, we have got an update on the current (US-based) total viewership of Game of Thrones.

This piece from BuzzFeed reports that the total number of viewers across all platforms has reached 18.7 million on average per episode of Season Five – so far. To put this in perspective, the record reached by the previous season of Thrones stands at 19 million viewers per episode (which is also the absolute record for any HBO show ever).

Since it takes time to gather all the numbers, the last couple of episodes cannot have been fully counted yet, and of course the finale is still to come. We can therefore predict with some confidence that the average will rise to break the record, thus making Season Five the most watched season to date, once all the data is in.