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Game of Thrones leads the most pirated TV shows of 2016

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The folks at download tracking site Torrent Freak have posted their annual list of the most pirated TV shows of the year, which is once again topped by HBO’s epic fantasy series Game of Thrones. This marks the fifth consecutive year that Game of Thrones has received the dubious honour, while AMC’s The Walking Dead […]

In Praise Of The Short Series

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Neil Calloway wishes TV producers would quit while they are ahead… The news was as disappointing as it was depressingly inevitable. The Night Manager – the best “limited drama” (we used to call them miniseries, but that makes it sound like a cheap daytime melodrama) of last year, is getting a sequel. I should be […]

Alicia Witt joins the cast of The Walking Dead

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Musician and actress Alicia Witt has taken to Twitter to announce that she’s joining the cast of AMC’s hit zombie drama The Walking Dead. proud & overjoyed to get to announce to you today: I'm joining one of the greatest shows ever made.#TheWalkingDead! @WalkingDead_AMC#TWD — alicia witt (@aliciawitty) February 4, 2016 Witt made her acting […]

Jeffrey Dean Morgan blasts ‘racist’ The Walking Dead T-shirt controversy

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British clothing retailer Primark have found themselves in hot water and had to pull the following The Walking Dead themed T-shirt due to a complaint about racism. Check out the controversial shirt below: This The Walking Dead shirt was pulled from shelves due to complaints of racism. What do you think? https://t.co/XNtHyPdFZB pic.twitter.com/wZXGl53c1I — KGUN […]

Game of Thrones is the most pirated TV show of 2014

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For the third consecutive year, HBO’s Game of Thrones has been named as the most-pirated TV show of the year, with Torrent Freak revealing that the season four finale of the epic fantasy series had more than 8 million illegal downloads via BitTorrent – some 3.1 million more than The Walking Dead in second place. […]

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 […]