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Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 9 Review – Battle of the Bastards

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Battle of the Bastards Written by: David Benioff and D. B. Weiss Directed by: Miguel Sapochnik In our penultimate episode of the season we roll out the expected big battle and by the Gods it was a sheer brutal affair, not just on the fields of Winterfell, but within the seas of Meereen as Princess Stampyfeet shows […]

Full list of winners from the Emmy Awards 2016, Game of Thrones sets record for most Emmy wins in history

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It was another great night for HBO at the 2016 Emmy Awards, with Game of Thrones and Veep winning Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Comedy Series for the second consecutive year. Game of Thrones won a further two awards (Directing and Writing), pushing the show’s total Emmy haul to 38 and topping the previous record […]

Kit Harington and Maisie Williams talk Game of Thrones season 7

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There’s still the best part of a year for us to wait until Game of Thrones returns for its shortened seventh season, but actors Kit Harington (Jon Snow) and Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) are wasting little time in ramping up the fan anticipation for the penultimate season of HBO’s epic fantasy series. “It’s important to stress […]

Game of Thrones: The Bear and how he may be made Fair

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Major spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 7 ‘The Broken Man’… You knew something was going on when Game of Thrones this week gave us its first ‘pre-credits’ sequence, essentially, which introduced not just Ian McShane for a special guest appearance but reintroduced someone almost nobody expected to see again (well, unless you’re […]

Complacency: The Killer of TV’s Golden Age

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Samuel Brace on the death of TV’s Golden Age… It’s all over. Television’s golden age is, it seems, gone. It’s done. Some will argue that it was never here at all, but those people are mostly ardent film fans who could never face that for a while, for a very short time, TV was better than […]

Games of Thrones to get season 6 aftershow titled After the Thrones

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Following in the footsteps of such Chris Hardwick-hosted shows as Talking Dead and Talking Saul, which both air after new episodes of The Walking Dead and Better Call Saul, respectively, Games of Thrones will be getting its own aftershow for season 6. Titled After the Thrones, the show will be available each week on Monday […]

The 6 Best TV Shows of 2015

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Samuel Brace with his six best TV shows of 2015… 2015 has been a pretty fantastic year for TV. Film? Not so much, but TV has been on point with some truly excellent seasons of returning shows, surprise hits, sad farewells and fan pleasing spin-offs. But what are the absolute must sees? What are the […]

Game of Thrones possibly renewed for season 7 and 8, season 6 premiere date confirmed

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Though the sixth season of Game of Thrones has yet to premiere, with a now set date of April 24th, HBO is apparently already talking about renewing the series not just for a seventh season, but an eighth as well. At the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena on Thursday night, HBO president Michael […]