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More than 100,000 people watched the hour-long Facebook Live
stream of a block of ice being melted slowly by blasts of fire.
It was interrupted by a few technical difficulties when the
stream cut to black.
The highly anticipated seventh season of "Game of Thrones,"
taglined "The Great War is Here," has been moved to summer from
its usual spring air date this year as filming of the show was
delayed to capture scenes of winter for the show's fictional
realm of Westeros.
Emmy-winning "Game of Thrones," based on George R.R. Martin's "A
Song of Ice and Fire" books, follows the epic fantasy of a
multi-generational struggle for control of the Iron Throne seat
of the Seven Kingdoms.
A teaser trailer released by HBO on Thursday shows the crests of
the warring families crumbling to ash, with voices of key
characters heard speaking phrases from past seasons in a
timeline of events that have led to the battle.
At the very end, the voice of resurrected Night Watch leader Jon
Snow says, "The same thing coming for all of us. There's only
one war that matters. The great war. And it is here."
"Game of Thrones" is the most-watched show on Time Warner Inc's
premium cable network HBO, averaging around 25 million viewers
for its sixth season. The saga will conclude with its eighth
season next year.
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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