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Ian McShane says Game of Thrones fans need to “get a f*cking life”

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Last year Ian McShane drew the ire of Game of Thrones fans, firstly by revealing a pretty big spoiler surrounding the return of fan favourite character The Hound, before responding to online complaints by describing the epic fantasy series as “only tits and wizards”. Well, he’s probably not going to endear himself to fans too much […]

Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams hates spoilers

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Game of Thrones is a highly eventful show from week to week, so it’s no surprise that Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) isn’t too thrilled when insiders or fans leak critical plot points. Talking to Radio Times, Maisie emphatically expressed: “It hurts. It’s just like, oh we wanted to tell this story, and yeah, lots of […]

Game of Thrones season 8 episode count not set, HBO “exploring” spinoff possibilities

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This summer Game of Thrones will return for its seventh and penultimate season – consisting of just seven episodes – before showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff wrap things up with an eighth season of six episodes. However, as yet, HBO is yet to officially renew the epic fantasy series for season eight – a […]

George R.R. Martin thinks The Winds of Winter will be out this year

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For the past few years, author George R.R. Martin has refused to offer any predictions as to when we’ll see the release of The Winds of Winter, the sixth instalment of his A Song of Ice and Fire saga. However, he’s now given fans hope that we’ll see the book in our lifetimes, posting on […]

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 […]

The 5 Best TV Shows of 2016

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Samuel Brace with the five best TV shows of 2016… 2016 has been an odd year for television. Netflix has continued its ascension, the golden age has dissipated, and all the trends of 2015 have repeated and progressed. But there is still no doubt TV has figured things out while film simply has not. TV […]

UPDATE: First glimpse of footage from Game of Thrones season 7, Conor McGregor joins the cast

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We’ve got an extra long wait for the return of Game of Thrones next year, with season seven not set to get underway until the summer, but HBO has decided to give us our first ever-so-brief glimpse at what lies ahead thanks to a promo for their 2017 slate, which includes three quick shots of Jon […]

Sophie Turner teases Sansa’s role in Game of Thrones season 7

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Sansa Stark has had a pretty tough time of things throughout the first six season of Game of Thrones, but having survived her various ordeals at the hands of the Lannisters and Boltons and reclaimed Winterfell during the ‘Battle of the Bastards’, things may finally be looking up for Ned Stark’s eldest daughter in the […]