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Recently Fansided reported that:

“Time for another round of Fandom 250 nominees. Today, we have giant entertainment franchises like Star Wars, Star Trek, and The Hunger Games”

FanSided is revealing the top 250 fandoms across a range of subjects, from sports teams to musicians to desserts. In today’s new chunk of 10, fansided hit some of the biggest entertainment franchises in the world, including juggernauts like Star Wars and Harry Potter.

Both of those franchises have changed the world of entertainment. When the Star Wars series debuted in the ’70s, it inspired a wave of special effects-driven action-adventure films, essentially creating the modern blockbuster. Meanwhile, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series got millions of young people interesting in reading, and delivered the publishing industry its biggest payday in years. And Star Trek brought a brainy brand of sci-fi to television that is still being explored on the big screen today.

Elsewhere on the list, there are newcomers that are changing entertainment as we speak. Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead are the two biggest things on TV right now, with fanbases that salivate over every new morsel of information. Will these shows ultimately prove as transformative as Star Wars and Harry Potter, and where do they all rank on the list?

Here’s the full list of nominees for November 14:

• Game of Thrones
• The Walking Dead
• Harry Potter/JK Rowling
• Star Wars
• Star Trek
• Twilight
• Doctor Who
• The Hunger Games
• Outlander
• Supernatural

Fansided further revealed that: We’ll be revealing the members of the Fandom 250 list through November, so stay tuned to FanSided. On December 6th, we’ll unveil the full list. Where do you guys think the above 10 will rank?

Game of Thrones Is Even More Insanely Popular than You Think

The fact that Game of Thrones is hugely popular should come as a shock to no one; the widespread dismay over next year’s shortened season alone should be enough to indicate how hooked we all are. But if it felt like Game of Thrones made leaps and bounds in popularity last summer, with its will-he/won’t-he Jon Snow cliff-hanger dominating the cultural conversation, that’s because it did. The fate of Kit Harington—and some other factors—grew the Game of Thrones audience by a whopping 25 percent this year.

Deadline reports that when accounting for repeat airings, DVR, HBO Go, HBO Now, and HBO on Demand together, Game of Thrones averaged an insane 25.1 million viewers for its sixth season. And that’s not even counting the record-breaking number of people who watched the season illegally through online torrents. Going by HBO’s numbers, Game of Thrones appears to have even beaten out ratings juggernauts like The Big Bang Theory and Sunday Night Football. The Walking Dead—taking a slight live-ratings hit from last year— drew in 18.4 million total viewers for its divisive Season 6 finale. Factoring in later online views, the AMC show’s numbers are flat and lack the massive growth of the HBO series.

The disparity in growth between Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead may have something to do with the zombie drama’s lack of momentum in recent seasons. Though that series tried to amp up the stakes with a number of deathly twists last year, the show has inevitably become a bit repetitive with Rick Grimes and his crew clashing and escaping from zombies week in and week out. Game of Thrones, on the other hand, has already announced a likely end date and is clearly building towards some kind of spectacular conclusion.

HBO’s chairman and C.E.O. Richard Plepler chalks up the growing popularity of Thrones to the network’s recent efforts to move into online platforms.

“These record audiences reflect the options we have built into our business model over the last few years,” he said. “Combining the convenience of HBO on Demand and HBO Go with the subscription flexibility of HBO Now, our programming is being exposed to an ever growing audience.”

We’ll see if a delayed Season 7 does anything to put a dent in the show’s popularity. (It probably won’t.) If anything, I’d imagine that the less-crowded TV landscape of summer will make Game of Thrones even more inescapably popular.

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