HBO's Game of Thrones debut gets decent ratings and is renewed for second season.

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"There were fears spread around the Internet that the premiere of Game of Thrones fizzled a bit, and some sites forecasted doom--DOOM!--on projected low figures. But those fears were put to rest when HBO released its ratings figures: "The gross audience for the premiere night of GAME OF THRONES on the main HBO channel was 4.2 million viewers." That includes encores on HBO's main channel, but from the wording, it doesn't include HBO's massive Monday night encore in which the premiere was shown simultaneously on every HBO feed. Given word of mouth, the 4.2 million is really just a jumping off point. Who watches TV live nowadays anyway?"


"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungleā€”as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.