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Game of Thrones season 7 premiere shatters ratings records

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Game of Thrones made its hotly-anticipated return this past Sunday night, with the season seven premiere ‘Dragonstone’ shattering a number of ratings records for HBO. The episode pulled in a whopping 16.1 million viewers across all HBO platforms, including repeats, streaming and DVR, up 50% from the season six opener from 2016. In overnight ratings, […]

Game of Thrones Fact Files: Daenerys Targaryen

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Tony Black counts down to season 7 of Game of Thrones… Khaleesi. Mother of Dragons. Breaker of Chains. Queen of the Andals and the First Men. Rightful Heir to the Seven Kingdoms. Daenerys really has more titles than an old fashioned video shop, which speaks to the journey she’s had over the span of Game […]

Daenerys, Sansa and Littlefinger featured in new Game of Thrones images

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With less than two weeks to go until the hotly-anticipated return of Game of Thrones, HBO has released two new images from the seventh season of the epic fantasy series featuring Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner), and Petyr ‘Littlefinger’ Baelish’ (Aidan Gillen); take a look below… SEE ALSO: Game of Thrones season […]

Peter Dinklage says that it’s the “perfect time” to end Game of Thrones

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Game of Thrones is soon coming to an end and Peter Dinklage says it’s the “perfect time” to do so. The hit HBO fantasy series has enraptured fans around the world for seven seasons so far and now audiences are waiting with great anticipation for the eighth and final instalment of the show, due out […]

HBO is unlikely move forward with more than one Game of Thrones spinoff

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With Game of Thrones set to return to HBO for its penultimate season tomorrow evening, the cable network’s president of programming Casey Bloys already has one eye on the future of the epic fantasy series. Speaking to THR, Bloys discussed the four potential spinoff projects that HBO has in development, revealing that it is unlikely […]

Game of Thrones showrunners share their excitement over season 7

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There’s just a fortnight to go until we return to Westeros for the seventh season of HBO’s Game of Thrones, and during an interview with Entertainment Weekly, showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff have been discussing their excitement over the penultimate season of the epic fantasy series. “To me what’s most exciting is being able […]

Game of Thrones Fact Files: Tyrion Lannister

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Tony Black counts down to the Game of Thrones season 7 premiere… Imp. The Half Man. Master of Coin. Tyrion Lannister has almost as many titles as the Mother of Dragons he eventually covets, yet there’s an argument that the black sheep of the Lannister family is both Game of Thrones most tragic victim and […]

Syfy orders George R.R. Martin’s Nightflyers

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With the success of Game of Thrones it’s been inevitable that some of George R.R. Martin’s other successful properties would be picked up for the screen, and according to Variety, Syfy has grabbed the next series from the multi-talented sci-fi and fantasy author, giving a series order to Nightflyers. Previously adapted to film in 1987, Nightflyers sees the […]