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Game of Thrones prequel A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms fills out its cast

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With the second season of House of the Dragon now complete, HBO is turning its attention to the next chapter of its burgeoning Game of Thrones universe as Variety has reported that the upcoming spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight has filled out its cast with seven new additions. Joining the […]

HBO finds its Dunk and Egg for Game of Thrones prequel A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

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As HBO continues to expand the world of Westeros, the cable network has announced that Peter Claffey (Bad Sisters, Wreck) and Dexter Sol Ansell (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, The Moor) have been cast as the lead roles of ‘Dunk’ and ‘Egg’ in the upcoming Game of Thrones prequel series A […]

House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 8 Review – ‘The Queen Who Ever Was’

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Chris Connor reviews the season 2 finale of House of the Dragon… House of The Dragon’s sophomore season has not been as widely discussed as its first season even with a tighter timeframe. Surprisingly there has not been an escalation in conflict, with the bulk of the season  instead setting up alliances and conflicts to […]

House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 7 Review – ‘The Red Sowing’

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Chris Connor reviews the seventh episode of House of the Dragon season 2… House of the Dragon’s sophomore season has surprisingly taken a more sedate pace than expected, favouring slow gradual storytelling. The penultimate episode sees a payoff for this as threads and character arcs developed across the season payoff and storylines unexpectedly intersect. We […]

Danny McBride and Edi Patterson developing The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires series

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Danny McBride and Edi Patterson, the duo behind The Righteous Gemstones, could have another cult hit on their hands. Deadline reports that McBride and Patterson will head a comedy series for HBO based on The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, based on Grady Hendrix’s New York Times bestseller. The Southern Book Club’s Guide […]

Euphoria season 3 to begin production in January 2025

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Euphoria has a production start date, so the sleaze will return to HBO. It’s reported the third season will start filming in January 2025, with Sam Levinson bringing us back to the fictional town of East Highland, California. Little is known about the plot, but expect some time jump between the second and third seasons […]

House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 3 Review – ‘The Burning Mill’

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Chris Connor reviews the third episode of House of the Dragon season 2… The third episode of House of the Dragon’s second season enlarges the chess board considerably as we venture into the wider world of Westeros, with the prospect of an all out conflict growing ever more likely by the second. While the first […]

HBO’s Harry Potter reboot series finds its showrunner and director

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HBO and Warner Bros. have announced that their upcoming Harry Potter TV series has found its writer and director, with Francesca Gardiner (Succession, His Dark Materials, Killing Eve) set to serve as showrunner and Mark Mylod (Succession, Game of Thrones, The Last of Us) directing multiple episodes. As per the official press release, the series […]

House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 1 Review – ‘A Son for a Son’

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Chris Connor reviews the first episode of House of the Dragon season 2… House of the Dragon’s first season proved a winning return to Westeros, some years before the events of Game of Thrones, cleansing the poor taste many felt towards the ending of the original show. Telling a tighter, more family driven story, it […]