We’ve been waiting for the official word on the premiere of Game of Thrones season 5, and it’s finally here! HBO has confirmed that the new season will debut on April 12th, in the show’s usual 9PM slot on HBO.
April 12th will be a huge night for HBO with three shows having their season premieres that Sunday- Game of Thrones, Veep, and Silicon Valley.
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Kit Harington talks Game of Thrones in the UK’s Telegraph, while promoting his new film Testament of Youth, and offers up a few interesting tidbits on the upcoming season.
Harington asserts that he does think the show can top its huge fourth season and admits he’d been worried about that. He says of the fifth season, “The thing I noticed this year is that they threw so much money at it.”
One of the most exciting Game of Thrones events is returning in 2015- the Game of Thrones Exhibition!
The exhibition features costumes, props and other items offering a closer look at the production of the show, in addition to interactive activities for fans to enjoy. Last year, visitors tried the new 4D Oculus Rift virtual reality gear to “Ascend the Wall,” and the popular attraction will return in 2015.
This year the event has even more to offer, with photo stations placing fans within major moments from Thrones. There will also be an opportunity for every visitor to pledge their allegiance to a House before entering the exhibition.
Each year different cities are visited so a variety of fans can enjoy the exhibition. This year’s lucky cities are: London, England; Stockholm, Sweden; Tel Aviv, Israel; Madrid, Spain; Berlin, Germany; Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Paris, France.
Game of Thrones: The Exhibition remains free as always. Some locations also host the HBO Shop with official Game of Thrones licensed collectible goodies for sale.
There are a few miscellaneous things happening in the Game of Thrones world during this (seemingly) endless wait for the first season five trailer.
We cover some new information for the Catch the Throne mix tape plus another award nomination and Kit Harington’s new do after the jump.
Game of Thrones is set to come to the big screen later this month.
A press release has been sent out by HBO, reporting that the final two episodes of Season 4, “The Watchers on the Wall” and “The Children”, will be played in 150 IMAX theatres across the United States. Accompanying the episodes will be an exclusive trailer for the upcoming fifth season of the show. The endeavour will run for one week, from 23rd-29th January. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, 7th January.
Episode 254 – The Onion Blossom
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Lord Walder Frey submits his emissaries to Riverrun for Hoster Tully’s farewell ceremony, and what would seem to be much, much more. In Dragonstone, Davos emerges from his cell to meet an unexpected adversary, conversation, and a charming new promotion.
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The big news for Game of Thrones season 5 was that the show would finally be including at least one flashback, possibly as part of a dream.
Without revealing spoilers, the flashback involves Cersei and a friend of hers visiting with an older woman called Maggy the Frog.
Casting news has been hard to come by lately, but our sharp-eyed readers noticed a name added to the show’s IMDB credits. A quick visit to the actress’s agency resume has confirmed the casting, so it’s official: Nell Williams will be playing the role of young Cersei.
Williams was a regular on The Revolting World of Stanley Brown, the CBBC sitcom that starred Dean-Charles Chapman.
And there’s one more casting notice….
In a new interview with RadioTimes.com, Kit Harington speaks on a subject that often comes up: the high levels of violence present on Game of Thrones, considered gratuitous by some.
“I don’t see a problem with it because you mostly always feel the consequences of that person dying,” he tells RadioTimes. “In Thrones it’s war and awful, awful things happen, as we see on the news daily. And if we’ve got an appetite for watching these things on the news then you can’t shy away from it on cable drama.”
Greetings and Happy New Year! For our first post of 2015, we’d like to celebrate the work of our readers and friends who have contributed to WotW and our Features.
2014 was an excellent year for WotW, though we were only around for the back half of it. WatchersontheWall was born at the end of July, and by December we had a quality array of work by readers and guest writers that provided a respite from the hiatus news freeze.
Here are the highlights of what we have done in 2014 and a message for the new year.
When news broke in October that Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, star of Lost and HBO’s Oz, would be joining the cast of Game of Thrones, details were few and far between.
The initial release of information told us only that the actor would be playing “a character not in the books with the name ‘Malko.’”
Later interviews with Akinnuoye-Agbaje offered tantalizing hints as to what Malko might be up to in season 5, but no real concrete evidence. Earlier this month, the actor told Vulture, “The character that I play, it’s actually advantageous to me not to actually know too much. That’s all I’m going to say.”
Now, however, thanks to our sources, we’re able to reveal more about Malko, and a notable scene that features him in season 5.
MAJOR plot spoilers beneath the cut!