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Those Game of Thrones spinoffs are still in the works, but Season 8 remains HBO’s top priority

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HBO doesn’t want you to think that they have forgotten about the recently announced Game of Thrones spinoffs. But they also don’t want you to think that Season 8 isn’t their top priority at the moment. According to Deadline, HBO president of programming Casey Bloys recently provided an update on the Game of Thrones spinoffs, and where […]

George R.R. Martin thinks we might get one or two new Westeros books in 2018

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If you were hoping to see The Winds of Winter, the latest chapter of George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy saga A Song of Ice And Fire, hitting bookstores this year, then the author has some bad news for you in his LiveJournal, revealing that he’s still “months away” from completing the novel, but expects to […]

George R.R. Martin to produce adaptation of Who Fears Death for HBO

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Who Fears Death is to be adapted for television by HBO and executive produced by George R.R. Martin. The cable television network is keeping the Game of Thrones author busy these days, lining him up to oversee a new fantasy project for the company. Hoping that this will be another fantasy/drama hit for the channel, Who […]

There are FIVE Game of Thrones spinoffs in the works, according to George R.R. Martin

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It was recently announced that HBO, in collaboration with series writer George R.R. Martin, is developing four spinoffs in the Game of Thrones universe, set to follow the eight and final season of the epic fantasy series. Now, it looks like there may actually be FIVE spin-offs in the works, according to George R.R. Martin in […]

SyFy adapting George R.R. Martin novella Nightflyers

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More of George R.R. Martin’s work will be coming to television, but this time its not connected to the A Song of Ice and Fire saga or the potential four spin-offs of Game of Thrones as SyFy has announced that it will develop Martin’s novella Nightflyers with Jacob’s Ladder‘s Jeff Buhler writing and executive producing the series. Written in 1980, Nightflyers is set […]

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 […]

George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards heading to the small screen

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Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has announced that his superhero anthology series Wild Cards is being developed for television by Universal Cable Productions. “The shared world of the Wild Cards diverged from our own on September 15, 1946 when an alien virus was released in the skies over Manhattan, and spread across an […]

Game of Thrones: The Book Plots Lost on the Show

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Tony Black on the book plots lost in Game of Thrones… And so it begins, the great post-Game of Thrones withdrawal period, and it’s especially potent this year given how season six was arguably one of the most exciting seasons David Benioff & D.B. Weiss have ever given us. Looking ahead to the final (or […]

Game of Thrones: Winter has brought the Age of Queens

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Tony Black on Game of Thrones’ ‘Age of Queens’ (spoilers for ‘The Winds of Winter’ follow)… It began with Kings. Game of Thrones now looks set to end with Queens. The feminist revolution in Westeros truly blossomed this season and epic finale ‘The Winds of Winter’ cemented the concrete inside the stone, or perhaps more […]