The stars of Game of Thrones came out for the 73rd Golden Globe Awards, currently underway in Beverly Hills, California. The annual live celebration, airing on NBC, honors the best of film and television from 2015. Emilia Clarke, Natalie Dormer and more past and present co-stars walked the red carpet, showing off their fashions and preparing to support Game of Thrones as the show competes for Best TV Drama.
Hello! Welcome back to the 2015 A Song of Ice and Fire 5-Site Theory Poll! You’ve been waiting for this moment. I’ve gotten your PMs, comment replies asking when the results will come out, and now’s the moment you all (or least a few of you) have been waiting for: results to the 2015 ASOIAF Theory Poll!
Theories contain information from the books, so Unsullied beware!
David J. Peterson, the linguistic expert who has helped to build the rich tapestry of the Game of Thrones world, appeared on The Daily Show with new host Trevor Noah on Wednesday night to promote his new book, The Art of Language Invention. But it’s not just the languages that make the show seem so authentic, it’s things like special effects, make-up and costumes. Costume design, in particular, has and continues to recieve notice in the industry. Game of Thrones’ Michele Clapton has been nominated for the 18th Annual Costumer Designers Guild Award in the category of Outstanding Fantasy Television Series.
More news after the jump.
Episode 309 – Sound the Charge!
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The year is dead. Long live the new year. Join Game Of Owns in an epic special guest-ridden farewell to 2015 and A Storm of Swords, with talks of George’s mighty update on The Winds of Winter.
Today, a podcast shares its biggest news to date.
Gods be good as our fearless editor Sue the Fury and Doug from Brewery Ommegang join in on this new episode!
If you were worried about rumors of a two-part season seven, you can put those to rest, now. According to Entertainment Weekly, HBO is in talks to bring Game of Thrones back for a complete seventh and eighth season.
HBO has now officially confirmed the premiere date for season six of Game of Thrones. As expected, the new season will arrive on Sunday, April 24th, in its usual 9:00PM slot.
HBO also confirmed today that the new seasons of Silicon Valley and Veep will debut on April 24, airing after Game of Thrones.
This has been the predicted premiere date for season six for a few months now, since HBO confirmed that their new series Vinyl would run into mid-April. The Jon Snow teaser poster unveiled in November with the word “April” reinforced the predicted date.
Time to get the countdown clock up and running!
Editor’s note: From time to time, we welcome new blood into the fold here. Our newest addition to the Watchers on the Wall staff is an old friend and familiar face in the Game of Thrones online community. Please give a warm Watchers welcome to WinterPhil! -Sue the Fury
Well, this is different. The people all look familiar, but the surroundings have changed…
For those of you who may be a bit confused, allow me to introduce myself. I’m Phil Bicking aka Winter Is Coming aka Winter aka WinterPhil. I started the website WinterIsComing.net over seven years ago. I knew next to nothing about running a fan site or anything like that, but I was desperate for any news about the show (or pilot, in those days) and wanted to catalogue all of the developments somewhere. I figured there might be a few others out there like me. There wasn’t much news to report on then, so it was mostly just me speculating about everything from who would be cast as Tyrion to what the show would be titled.
The site quickly grew though and within a year I found myself going from random guy on the internet with a blog to a guy having breakfast with George R. R. Martin and meeting David Benioff, Dan Weiss, and Peter Dinklage face-to-face. We were a legit news site after that, with casting scoops and exclusive interviews, the whole bit. It was amazing and fun and exciting. But it was also a lot of work. That is why, a little over two years ago I decided to step away from running the site, for some much needed R&R.
Natalie Dormer is making the rounds lately to promote her new film The Forest and is talking Game of Thrones in the meanwhile.
The actress appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday, and explained to the host that she only reads the portions of the GoT scripts that are “relevant to Margaery and Highgarden and King’s Landing.” She says she does this, “So when the show airs, I’m sitting on the couch watching it like you.”
“I’ll be sitting in the hair and makeup trailer, and someone will show up and I’ll be like, ‘What are you doing here?’” Dormer tells Kimmel. “Oh my god, you’re back? I gotta leave.”
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Game of Thrones is once again being recognized for its excellence. Two episodes have been nominated by the American Cinema Editors in the 66th Annual Eddie Awards.
More details after the jump.
Although that was certainly the plan of George R.R. Martin and his publisher (not to mention our hope), we won’t read Book 6 ahead of Season 6 of Game of Thrones. In the last of a series of yearender posts on his Not A Blog, GRRM tackles the issue.
Cold, hard facts: The Winds of Winter is not finished, although a lot has been written. Says Martin: “But there’s also a lot still left to write. I am months away still… and that’s if the writing goes well”.
He reveals that he was first planning to be done by Halloween, and then by the end of the year, which would still give the publishers enough time, with an accelerated turn-around schedule (similar to when A Dance with Dragons was done). Clearly, that did not work out.