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Why HBO Max Already Ordering a 2nd Season of ‘House of the Dragon’ Is More Surprising Than You Think · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. HBO Max's Game of
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Speaker 1: Throne spinoff, House of the Dragon might be only two
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Speaker 1: episodes in, but HBO has seen enough to officially green
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Speaker 1: light a second season of the show following the massive
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Speaker 1: viewing numbers. The premiere episode pulled well over twenty million
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Speaker 1: tuning in. It might seem like a foregone conclusion given
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Speaker 1: the immense success up Game of Thrones, but the news
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Speaker 1: show did not come cheap. Each episode costs around twenty
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Speaker 1: million dollars, which isn't outlandish in this day and age,
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Speaker 1: but HBO reportedly also spent a hundred million on marketing
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Speaker 1: alone pushing that price. That's the kind of money normally
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Speaker 1: reserved for those big popcorn movies, not usually TV shows.
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Speaker 1: House of the dragonaires Sundays on HBO Max. That's direct
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Speaker 1: from Hollywood.