Big battle brings record viewing for HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’

LOS ANGELES (AP) — HBO’s “Game of Thrones” has once again ridden a high body count to a record viewer count.
The Nielsen company says Sunday’s big-battle episode, the third of the final season, drew 17.8 million viewers either live on the network at 9 p.m., streamed, on-demand or in a rerun that aired later that night.
That made it the week’s most-watched show cable or broadcast and the most-watched episode ever of an HBO show, topping the “Thrones&rdquo