ABOUT 50 fans of the HBO series Game of Thrones were given the royal treatment with a big-screen, rooftop viewing of the series premiere at Digicel’s downtown Kingston headquarters last Sunday.

The top-rated cable TV programme is now in its seventh season and comprises seven episodes. It concludes on August 27.

“Our customers love the show. I’m not even sure HBO knows how big it is in the Caribbean and Jamaica. There are serious fans of Game of Thrones here,” Tahnida Nunes, marketing manager Digicel Play, told the Jamaica Observer.

Nunes said the excitement aboutSunday’s premiere party for the penultimate season of the hit cable show started on social media.

“HBO was so gracious to us. They sent us some goodies and from that it just took off,” she said.

Ahead of Sunday’s event, Digicel Play held several social media trivia contests, including a scavenger hunt, through their various locations. The winners of the trivia contests were included on the guest list.

However, the gift giving didn’t stop there as the audience, before and after the screening, was asked to once again test their knowledge of the show for various prizes. One such lucky guest was Karyll Bennett-Robinson, who won a POP vinyl figure of one of the many Game of Thrones characters.

“I’m a huge fan of the show even though I didn’t start watching from the beginning. I only discovered it three years ago,” she said.

Bennett-Robinson said the quality of the writing by George R R Martin, on whose A Song of Fire & Ice books the series is based on, keeps her hooked and coming back for more. The series follows two powerful families — kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars and honest men — playing a deadly game for control of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, and to sit atop the Iron Throne.

Game of Thrones premiered in April of 2011. Since then, it has won an historic 38 Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe nominations for Best Dramatic Television series.

— Rory Daley