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It's been a while since we last checked in on George R.R. Martin and Ryan Condal's Game of Thrones spinoff series House of the Dragon. Written by a writing team headed by Condal and based on Martin's novels, House of The Dragon has tapped popular Game of Thrones director Miguel Sapochnik to direct the pilot and […]

A little more than two months after HBO shelved one Game of Thrones prequel pilot while giving George R.R. Martin and Ryan Condal's House of The Dragon a series order, HBO President of Programming Casey Bloys has some good news for fans. Written by Condal and based on Martin's novels, House of The Dragon has tapped popular […]

Johnnie Walker Whisky is giving one last gift to Game of Thrones fans. A Song of Ice and A Song of Fire whisky bottles (check out Bleeding Cool's review here) can now come to life on your phone, thanks to AR technology! Depending on which bottle you have, a steely-eyed direwolf or a fire-breathing dragon […]

Less than twenty-four hours after one Game of Thrones prequel pilot got shelved while another was given a direct-to-series order, GoT mastermind George R.R. Martin is offering more details on HBO's House of the Dragon. Stemming from Martin and Ryan Condal, popular Game of Thrones director Miguel Sapochnik will partner with Condal as showrunner and direct […]

HBO's popular global phenomenon Game of Thrones shuffled off the cable giant's programming coil with a finale that left fans with enough to debate and discuss until one of the show's prequel series finally makes it to air. With The Long Night (tentative title) currently filming its pilot in Northern Ireland (reportedly until working title […]

HBO's popular global phenomenon Game of Thrones shuffled off the cable giant's programming coil with finale "The Iron Throne," which left fans with enough to debate and discuss until one of the show's prequel series finally makes it to air. With The Long Night (tentative title) currently filming its pilot in Northern Ireland (reportedly until […]

HBO's righteously popular global phenomenon Game of Thrones shuffled off the cable giant's programming coil with finale "The Iron Throne," which left fans with enough to debate and discuss until one of the show's prequel series makes it to air. With The Long Night currently filming its pilot in Northern Ireland (reportedly until working title […]

When it comes to a series finale, our personal 1-10 scale has the following parameters: a "1" (the worst) would be something like Showtime's Dexter; a "10" (the best) would be something like AMC's Breaking Bad. All shows fall somewhere in-between – for example? CBS' How I Met Your Mother would get a "3," while […]

HBO's righteously popular global phenomenon Game of Thrones shuffled off the cable giant's programming coil with a finale that – hmmm, what the best way to put this ? Let's just say that series finale "The Iron Throne" left fans with enough to debate and discuss until one of the show's prequel series makes it […]

It seems like George R. R. Martin is changing a bit of his tune when it comes to the ending of HBO's Game of Thrones tv show vs. his source material books. Originally Martin said that the end of the written book series would be different from the show's, and both David Benioff and Dan Weiss had agreed […]

Welcome to The Bleeding Cool Top 25 TV Influencers 2019, a look inside our "crystal ball" as we predict the individuals, shows, and events that could have a major influence on you this year. Our twenty-five choices were based on a year's worth of Bleeding Cool television coverage, third-party coverage, analytics, and raw gut instinct. We started with more than […]

Andy Kaufman scared the living hell out of me when I was ten – and I've been thankful for it ever since. When I was growing up, there were four gospels to Friday nights. Bedtime set at 8 p.m. No debate. No discussion. Dad would pass out in his recliner after working shifts at the […]

1987 was a great year for genre film-making: Robocop…Spaceballs…Arnold Schwarzenegger punching in our faces with both Predator and The Running Man. Unfortunately, not everything hitting cinemas that year was gold, with quite a few notable stinkers making viewers want to claw their eyes out in terror. Dolph Lundgren stumbled woodenly through Masters of the Universe; Superman […]

October seems rather far away, until you learn the Game of Thrones prequel series is reportedly going to start filming then. It's so soon! According to the Belfast Telegraph, filming on the series will begin in Belfast (the home of Game of Thrones production for many years) starting in October. Filming on the Game of Thrones prequel will start […]

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On behalf of Twin Peaks fans everywhere, let me me just say this to all you Game of Thrones folks out there: we feel your pain. On the plus side? It's pretty safe to say that you're not going to have to wait 27 years before you find out how everything wraps up. On the downside? […]

Not many shows can claim bragging rights to a body count longer than the Manhattan phone book, but HBO's fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones would be that rare exception. From the moment Ned Stark (Sean Bean) found his head so rudely divorced from the rest of his body in the first season, George R.R. Martin's […]

If you're a Game of Thrones fan, you've seen the hints in the air on this — or shadows of hints, anyway. For example, just yesterday actor Jim Broadbent let slip that he's playing an "old professor" character in season 7.  It's not much, but finally, here's something official. HBO has just released this teasiest of teaser […]

By Cameron Hatheway   Book publisher HarperCollins announced this Friday to The Guardian that it has no plans to release the long-awaited sixth novel from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series in 2015. The Winds of Winter is now thought to be released in 2016 instead. Fans of the novels and […]

But George RR Martin, apparently, is not This is the state of play that one person found intolerable, asking Marvel's Senior VPP Tom Brevoort,Why did you decide to pursue getting CM Punk to write a comic but not pursued George RR Martin. Tom replied,CM Punk wanted to write a Marvel story George RR Martin expressed some interest,[...]