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TV has too many serial killers says top scriptwriter A. Davies

He was once known as TV’s Mr Sex for his racy adaptations of period classics such as Pride and Prejudice and Fanny Hill for the BBC. But now scriptwriter Andrew Davies has said that TV drama needs to calm down a bit: there are, he believes, too many dead...

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GoT: What decided GRR Martin to sell the rights to HBO

It wasn't a simple task for George R.R. Martin to trust David Benioff and his fellow executive producer D.B Weiss with his masterwork "Game of Thrones." Benioff recalls the day they called the writer, and tried to get him on board him. "We thought this...

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HBO GoT: from television to film theatres?

"Game of Thrones" is about to start season 4 on HBO, but author George R. R. Martin is already thinking ahead to the end. The lifespan of the series has always been a question, since "A Song of Ice and Fire" will conclude with the seventh book (Martin...

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"Moby Dick" TV Mini Series (2011) Trailer

A "reimagined" version of Melville's book, Moby Dick was shot primarily in Shelburne , Nova Scotia , during late 2009. Costing US$25 million, it is Tele München's most expensive production to date. This adaptation gives Ahab a wife named Elizabeth, although...

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The Hollow Crown 2 on the BBC in 2016

BBC director general Tony Hall today unveiled plans for what he described as the Corporation’s “strongest commitment to the arts we’ve made in a generation" with an extra £2.75m given to arts programming. Just weeks after announcing plans to move youth-orientated...

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Early New York Times review of Game of Thrones

With the amount of money apparently spent on “Game of Thrones,” the fantasy epic set in a quasi-medieval somewhereland beginning Sunday on HBO, a show like “Mad Men” might have the financing to continue into the second term of a Malia Obama presidency....

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Game of Thrones: I love the TV show, should I read the books?

"Game of Thrones" books, huh? That's what you're interested in (or are you just stinging from the lack of an episode this week)? Well, you've come to the right place. If you're a long-time fan of "Game of Thrones" on HBO and are thinking about making...

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Will the TV show catch up with the writing of the books?

Will the TV show catch up with the writing of the books?

Winds of Winter release date news time. By news I mean "mostly speculation," but to ease up your delirium thronems, I've taken the liberty of gathering up everything we know about when the next book will come out. George R. R. Martin is not a machine....

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Lyme Park aka Pemberley

Lyme Park aka Pemberley

When a wet-shirted Colin Firth strode into Jennifer Ehle’s life, an iconic TV moment was born. Lyme Hall played the part of Pemberley in the BBC’s 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and the lake into which Darcy dived (or a stuntman,...

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Location, Location, Location

With season four of Game of Thrones almost upon us, locations manager Robbie Boake takes us on a video tour of the Belfast locations and sets from the fantasy drama series. “We do things akin to feature films – if not at a higher production level at some...

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