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The House of the Dragon

,

a prequel to

Game of Thrones

, will have

season 2.

This has been confirmed

by HBO

, which has announced the renewal of the series.

The house of the dragon

was released on August 21 in the United States and the next day in Europe.

In the US, it managed to gather in its first episode the

largest audience for an original series premiere in the history of HBO

and, currently,

more than 20 million viewers have already seen the first episode

.

In Spain, the drama premiered on

HBO Max

achieved the highest number of viewers of a new series or movie on a "streaming" service on the platform.

Based on the novel

Fire and Blood

by

George RR Martin

, the

10

-part series , set to premiere over the next nine Mondays, is

set 200 years before the plot of Game of Thrones

and tells the story of

House Targaryen

.

The drama series stars

Paddy Considine

,

Matt Smith

,

Olivia Cooke

,

Emma D'Arcy

,

Steve Toussaint

,

Eve Best

,

Sonoya Mizuno

,

Fabien Frankel

, and

Rhys Ifans

.

Francesca Orsi, Executive Vice President of Programming at HBO, has highlighted how the entire team has managed with the first season to create a television series "that has already been established as essential" and has expressed her enthusiasm for "continuing the story of the saga epic of House Targaryen in the second season".

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