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‘Game of Thrones’ Breaks Record

MOTHER OF DRAGONS

For highest viewership.

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HBO is YOLOing through 2013—and it's paying off. The cable station smashed a previous viewership record Sunday night with an episode of their epic fantasy drama Game of Thrones. The episode, which raked in a massive 5.3 million viewers, beat its own series high of 4.9 million. But it's not the only show making improvements. Fictional vice president Julia Louis-Dreyfus and her bumbling personal aide Tony Hale brought in the largest audience to date this season for Veep, with 1.3 million viewers.

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