Game of Thrones is coming to CTV.

In what it says is the first North American airing of the hit show on network television, CTV announced Thursday it will broadcast Season 1 in August.

The 10 episodes will air consecutive Monday to Friday evenings beginning Aug. 8 at 10 p.m.

The episodes will air unedited with reduced commercial time, CTV says, which is significant because of the series’ graphic content, including nudity, sexuality and plenty of violence.

“Game of Thrones has never been more popular and now it’s time to make Season 1 available to every Canadian viewer,” Mike Cosentino, senior vice-president of programming for CTV Networks, said in a news release.

The series, which is based on George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels, just finished its sixth season on HBO. It averaged more than 1.5 million viewers an episode on HBO Canada, making it the most watched season of a show on Canadian entertainment specialty and pay TV, CTV says.

In Season 1, viewers get acquainted with members of the Stark, Lannister and Targaryen families, including Ned Stark (Sean Bean), Cersei and Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Lena Headey), Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage), Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke).

Subsequent seasons are available on demand via TMN GO.