British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay captures GoT's final season across the studios, fields and carparks of Northern Ireland ..read more

Production on the A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has commenced in Belfast, Ireland. The latest Game of Thrones spin-off features Peter Claffey (Harry Wild), Dexter Sol Ansell (Emmerdale), Finn Bennett (True Detective: Night Country), Bertie Carvel (The Crown), Tanzyn Crawford (Tiny Beautiful Things), Daniel Ings (Sex Education) and Sam Spruell (Small Axe: Mangrove). Adapted from George R. R. Martin’s novella “The Hedge Knight,” the first season will follow the exploits of the knight Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) and his young squire, Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell), roughly 100 years before the ..read more

UK actor Ian Gelder, best known for Game of Thrones, and Torchwood has died, aged 74. He died of complications from bile duct cancer. “It is with huge huge sadness and a heavy heart broken into a million pieces that I’m leaving this post to announce the passing of my darling husband and life partner Ian Gelder,” Ben Daniels wrote online. “Ian was diagnosed with bile duct cancer in December and yesterday he passed at 13.07. I’d stopped all work to be his carer but neither of us had any idea that it would all be so fast.” “He was a wonderful, wonderful actor and everyone who worked with him was ..read more

When you’ve been performing as long as Ian McElhinney you would rightly expect to be offered roles and not be asked to screen test. That was just what happened for the veteran Irish actor when producers for Binge drama High Country reached out to his agent. McElhinney attributes his work in Derry Girls and Stephen Merchant’s The Outlaws as being instrumental to the offer. “There was something about seeing those two shows, in particular… having made this decision already that they were going to make this guy Irish, they thought, ‘This guy could be the right type for us,'” he tells TV Tonight ..read more

Warner Bros Discovery has given the clearest indication yet that the HBO Max (now known simly as Max) platform will launch in Australia in 2025, the AFR reports. Jean-Briac Perrette, Warner Bros Discovery’s president of global streaming and games, told media executives in Bali at a summit last week, “We’ll do Europe before the Olympics, which we have to get done because we have the Olympics coming in Paris next summer. And then we will get to Asia. “Asia continues to be critically important, but we have to do it in that sequence. And we will get to Asia before the end of next year with our ex ..read more

The return of Game of Thrones topped Pay TV viewing in Australia yesterday, screening across multiple broadcasts. The “Winterfell” episode played 7 times on FOX Showcase (not including FOX Showcase +2). Episode 1 achieved a total premiere audience of 962,000 on linear broadcast: 11am: 196,000 12.06pm: 66,000 1.11pm: 51,000 2.16pm: 43,000 3.20pm: 299,000 8.30pm: 270,000 10.41pm: 38,000 Comparing with 2017 S7 premiere is difficult… that drew 447,000 for its daytime broadcast and 352,000 for the primetime replay, at 799,000 viewers. So the 2019 audience is up 17% with extra playouts. There were ..read more

If you are looking to avoid Game of Thrones spoilers on Twitter, it has a feature which allows users to mute words in their timelines. This Tweet explains a step by step process on how to handle muting words in your timeline. Mute words, phrases, hashtags & more for a specific time period in your timeline & notifications. On Web & Android.https://t.co/jhWKRu0cK1 pic.twitter.com/4pACn8GD3F — Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) March 23, 2017 Users can tune out spoilers, and then jump back into the conversation on Twitter once they’re caught up. Who to follow: @GameOfThrones @GoT_Cas ..read more

The season finale of House of the Dragon was leaked online on Friday, two days before the episode airs, believed to have emerged from Europe, the Middle East or Africa. “We are aware that the tenth episode of House of the Dragon has been posted on illegal torrent sites. It appears to have originated from a distribution partner in the EMEA region,” a statement reads. “HBO is aggressively monitoring and pulling these copies from the internet. We’re disappointed that this unlawful action has disrupted the viewing experience for loyal fans of the show, who will get to see a pristine version of th ..read more

Good news for Game of Thrones fans who haven’t seen House of the Dragon, with Binge confirming the season premiere is now available on YouTube for free. It will be available until October 18. HBO made the first episode available recently when Lord of the Rings debuted on Prime Video, but not in Australia. Enjoy ..read more

House of the Dragon had a winning launch on FOX Showcase yesterday drawing 115,000 national viewers plus another 85,000 in n earlier screening and a further 66,000 in a third. That topped other STV shows AFL 360 (84,000), Live NRL 360 (61,000) and On the Couch (45,000). But they only indicate the Live viewers with numbers and none of Binge. They will doubtless rise rapidly with BVOD across 7 days of viewing. By comparison The Twelve drew 70,000 when it topped STV last Tuesday, meaning the launch looks promising if smaller than Game of Thrones numbers of the past. So far the show seems to have ..read more