{"id":24061,"date":"2014-04-08T15:55:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T19:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=24061"},"modified":"2014-04-08T15:55:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T19:55:25","slug":"hbo-orders-seasons-5-6-game-thrones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/04\/08\/hbo-orders-seasons-5-6-game-thrones\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Orders Seasons 5 and 6 of &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few situations are more straightforward: deliver a whopping 3.6 adults 18-49 rating with 6.64 million viewers for your season premiere on a premium cable network, receive a reward.<\/p>\n<p>It should therefore come as no surprise that &#8220;Game of Thrones,&#8221; on the heels of that strong performance for its season four premiere, has earned fifth and sixth seasons at HBO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGAME OF THRONES is a phenomenon like no other,\u201d said HBO&#8217;s Michael Lombardo. \u201cDavid Benioff and D.B. Weiss, along with their talented collaborators, continue to surpass themselves, and we look forward to more of their dazzling storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s viewership tally of 6.64 million ranks as the network&#8217;s strongest since the series finale of &#8220;The Sopranos&#8221; attracted 11.9 million in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth and sixth seasons of HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Game of Thrones,&#8221; like their predecessors, are expected to contain ten episodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048],"tags":[176,2026,78],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HBO Orders Seasons 5 and 6 of &quot;Game of Thrones&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Few situations are more straightforward: deliver a whopping 3.6 adults 18-49 rating with 6.64 million viewers for your season premiere on a premium cable\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/04\/08\/hbo-orders-seasons-5-6-game-thrones\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HBO Orders Seasons 5 and 6 of &quot;Game of Thrones&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Few situations are more straightforward: deliver a whopping 3.6 adults 18-49 rating with 6.64 million viewers for your season premiere on a premium cable\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/04\/08\/hbo-orders-seasons-5-6-game-thrones\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-04-08T19:55:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/04\/08\/hbo-orders-seasons-5-6-game-thrones\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/04\/08\/hbo-orders-seasons-5-6-game-thrones\/\",\"name\":\"HBO Orders Seasons 5 and 6 of \\\"Game of Thrones\\\"\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-04-08T19:55:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-04-08T19:55:25+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"Few situations are more straightforward: deliver a whopping 3.6 adults 18-49 rating with 6.64 million viewers for your season premiere on a premium cable\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/04\/08\/hbo-orders-seasons-5-6-game-thrones\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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