Why is Game of Thrones in such a late time slot? Isn't it popular enough for a more family friendly slot?

GoT watcher wrote:

The whole family recently binged watched all of the past seasons of GoT on HULU. Now that we're caught up to the current season, we wanted to all sit down and watch the new episodes real-time, but 10pm is way too late for the kids to go to bed when they have school the next day.

GoT has to be the most popular show in the country right now. Why can't they put it in a more family friendly time slot? Just sucks that the kids won't be able to watch when everyone else does.

Kids? GoT? Lol. I am far from a prude, but any kid who can’t stay up late enough to watch a 9:00p ET show has no business watching GoT.

And it’s on at 9:00... not 10:00

GBohannon wrote:

And it’s on at 9:00... not 10:00

It ends at 10pm, thus one who wants to watch it can't go to bed until 10pm, which is what I said. Do you go to bed at the start time of a show you want to watch?

Sex and gore. ‘Nuff said.

Children that have to go to bed are the last thing GoT schedulers think about. They have t make the show late enough for the west coasters and early enough for east coasters. These people are adults, of which 90%+ wake up later than 6 am.

Fkkrkr wrote:

Children that have to go to bed are the last thing GoT schedulers think about. They have t make the show late enough for the west coasters and early enough for east coasters. These people are adults, of which 90%+ wake up later than 6 am.

They actually play the episode more than once on its release date, maybe for the west coast people. I think HBO is currently saying it will show the first episode of the last season at roughly 6pm, 9pm, and Midnight (all PST).

GoT watcher wrote:

GBohannon wrote:

And it’s on at 9:00... not 10:00

It ends at 10pm, thus one who wants to watch it can't go to bed until 10pm, which is what I said. Do you go to bed at the start time of a show you want to watch?

Yes, I do.

In all seriousness, your post was clear and I misread it while on the treadmill. Still a ridiculous post and kids who need to be in bed by 10 (like 11-12 and under, I’m guessing?) should only be watching GoT with their friends behind their parents’ backs.

No...it's too violent.

We made an exception to the regular bedtimes and let the kids stay up late for the premiere. Still TBD whether that’s going to be a regular thing for the rest of the season, but a slightly late night to do something with family isn’t the worst thing in the world for a kid.

Plenty of kids stay up late to catch the end of a football game every so often.

Why is game of thrones so popular?

LoneStarXC wrote:

Why is game of thrones so popular?

It used to be a good show

It hasn't been good since Ned Stark was beheaded. They really jumped the shark when Cersei the Slut blew up the Sept. It is not being renewed for next season. HBO has cancelled it. That's what happens to bad shows.

This is the same problem I have with my 9 year old son. I'm desperate to take him to our local strip club just to make sure he doesn't get confused sexually by social currently ALMOST LITERALLY trying to force it's LGBT propaganda down his throat.

Anyway the club don't get going til 10pm and his mom says that's too late by the time he gets a lap dance what with school in the morning.

GBohannon wrote:

And it’s on at 9:00... not 10:00

maybe op lives in Nova Scotia

we let ours stay up wrote:

We made an exception to the regular bedtimes and let the kids stay up late for the premiere. Still TBD whether that’s going to be a regular thing for the rest of the season, but a slightly late night to do something with family isn’t the worst thing in the world for a kid.

Plenty of kids stay up late to catch the end of a football game every so often.

We ended up doing the same. We made a deal going forward that if they are in bed by their regular weekday bedtime on Saturday, they can stay up for GoT on Sunday.

1/10 - Nice try though.

Because it garbage and America needs to become great again!!!

Probably has much to do with the explicit sex between family members and the disturbing violence? Like the beheadings and executions and mass murders. I am not a parent though, so what do I know?

If your "kids" are old enough to see these kind of things, they are old enough to stay up until 10PM. If they can't, then you can record it, and watch it Monday night.

If you have HBO, which assumes you are watching at home and thus are watching legally, you would have access to HBO NOW or GO. Both of which are streaming services and do not operate on the constraints of TV scheduling.

In my experience, GoT and all other HBO shows start at their given time, which would be 9pm EST for GoT this past weekend. It is at that time that the streaming on demand is available. If you want to pause the show, not start until 8:15 because you were recapping, that's doable.

Who bothers watching TV live anymore? It's the internet, use it.