Contest

And the winner of the Hodor & Bran Dark Horse Figure is…

Posted on by Sue the Fury

Hodor and BranThank you to everyone who participated in this week’s giveaway of the Game of Thrones Hodor & Bran Figure from Dark Horse! We love your enthusiasm for this amazing piece but there can be only one winner today.

And I do mean only one winner today. Because guess what?

Your response was so fantastic we’re going to give away another one of these beauties tomorrow, and then ANOTHER one next Monday!

If you don’t win today, keep the faith – you have two more opportunities to Hodor your heart out.

So who wins the prize today? Let’s get to it.

The winner of the Hodor & Bran Figure from Dark Horse is….

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Locations/News

Game of Thrones season 6 Spain scouting shifts from Navarre to Almería

Posted on by Sue the Fury
Tabernas Desert
Tabernas desert. Photo: Roberto Bubnich

Recently, it was reported that Game of Thrones had their eye on the Bardenas Reales Natural Park in Navarre for season 6, but a new article suggests the show is looking elsewhere in Spain now.

Last week, a report in Diario de Navarra said that HBO’s people were interested in the semi-desert badlands in northern Spain as a potential shooting site, but were unable to confirm it with Fresco Films Services. (Fresco handles production for Game of Thrones in Spain.)

Today, Diario de Almería says that the city of Almería is almost certainly going to be a new location for season 6 of the show.

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Interview/News

Costume designer Michele Clapton not returning for season 6 of Game of Thrones

Posted on by Sue the Fury

Michele ClaptonMichele Clapton has designed the look of Game of Thrones for the past five years and according to a new profile in Fashionista, this season was her last.

The costume designer has played a huge role in determining the aesthetic of Game of Thrones, and won two Emmys for her work on the show.

“I feel like we’ve covered all bases now. It was really important to me, knowing that I was going to leave, to actually design the costumes for each [geographic] area  so it’s complete,” Clapton tells Fashionista. “In my head anyway it’s a complete look that I left.”

In addition to sharing the news of her departure, she explains her thoughts behind some of the major costumes we’ve seen in season 5.

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Interview/News

David Nutter and Jessica Henwick look ahead at the Game of Thrones season finale

Posted on by Sue the Fury

Nymeria Sand

It’s hard to believe we’re almost at the Game of Thrones season finale already,  but then time flies when you love a show with only ten episodes per year. We have a couple new interviews today that look forward at the finale with hints of things to come.

After “The Dance of Dragons,” it wasn’t clear if we’d see Dorne again. With Doran’s negotiations in place, no one knew quite what to expect. Well now a new interview with Jessica Henwick hints that things in Dorne will once again heat up in the finale.

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Editorial/Humor/Recap

The Tweets of Dragons

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59b2ce069fd1ab82904d9cf7e78f2244Hiyo, the Artist Formerly Known As Fire And Blood coming at you live from the smoking remnants of Daznak’s Pit and Stannis’s torched camp, here to bring you an array of toasted meats of an entirely different sort!

Twitter time! You know what that means!

I’m not even f’n’a hold y’all back. Let’s get right to business, shall we? Because as usual, you’re gonna be on this page for most of the afternoon – there’s no need to linger here reading this dreck.

Let’s get to the real dreck!
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News/Ratings

Episode 509 “The Dance of Dragons” brings a slight rise in initial Game of Thrones viewership

Posted on by Hear Marko Roar
Flying high
Flying high

The numbers for Sunday are in, and after the record increase last week, viewership of the initial airing is again highest since the premiere of the season: 7.14 million, just a tad over the previous 7 million. People have been busy catching up in the past weeks, as the data (partial and not-so-interesting, I know) shows.

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