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It endured only a slight loss in adults 18-49.<\/p>\n<p>According to national data posted by Showbuzz, Sunday&#8217;s &#8220;Thrones&#8221; drew a 3.85 adults 18-49 rating and 7.66 million total live+same-day viewers.  Last week&#8217;s episode drew a slightly stronger 3.88 in the demo but a slightly lesser viewership tally of 7.60 million.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s HBO lineup also included &#8220;Silicon Valley&#8221; (0.88, 1.63 million this week vs. 0.88, 1.64 million last week), &#8220;Veep&#8221; (0.43, 0.90 million this week vs. 0.39, 0.85 million last week) and &#8220;Last Week Tonight&#8221; (0.62, 1.44 million vs. 0.53, 1.21 million last week).<\/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":[2026,78,3714,2152,2151],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ratings: HBO&#039;s &quot;Game Of Thrones&quot; 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