Season 5 Directors Have Been Chosen
Yesterday, HBO announced that the " Game of Thrones " season 4 premiere was the pay cable channel's highest-rated show since "The Sopranos" series finale Today, in the least shocking news ever, HBO announced that "Game of Thrones" had been renewed for two additional seasons, which will take the show at least through a season six.
Game Of Thrones is a giant hit for HBO and is being treated as such — receiving a two-year renewal a day after the fourth-season premiere delivered the fantasy series’ biggest ratings to date and HBO’s largest audience since The Sopranos finale. This is the first multi-season pickup for Game Of Thrones , which is now assured to run for least six seasons. How far can the hit go seems to be in the hands of the novels’ writer George R.R. Martin, who is still writing Book 6 in the seven-book series. “ Game Of Thrones is a phenomenon like no other,” said HBO programming president Michael Lombardo.
Why mention that at all? Well, because the faster that the show burns through story material, the better the chance that by the time season six ends, Benioff and Weiss will be nearly caught (if not entirely caught up) to Martin, in terms of his published material. Recall, the author still has two more books to churn out, The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring , before he’s done. This was inevitable, given that Lombardo, Richard Plepler, Benioff, Weiss and George R.R. Martin have all been saying that the show is meant to run for many years, and at times the next season has been in the process of being written even before a formal renewal announcement was made. Harington said also that Ygritte would have never been capable of killing Jon Snow.
Game of Thrones is broadcast by HBO in the United States, and through its local subsidiaries or other pay TV services in other countries, either at the same time as in the U.S. or some weeks or months later. The series's broadcast in China on CCTV , beginning in 2014, was heavily edited to remove scenes of sex and violence, in accordance with a Chinese practice of censoring western TV series to prevent "negative effects and hidden security dangers", according to the People's Daily This resulted in viewer complaints about the incoherence of what remained of the series. 59
Game of Thrones" Season Five will return with all-male directors and writers, announced HBO. Also, new spoilers suggest that filming for the fifth season will start soon in both Seville and Orsuna, Spain, which will serve as the landscape for Dorne. Finally, fans are speculating about Jon Snow's love life-some believe the "Wildling Princess" Val will be introduced as his love interest, while others believe he may find romance with Melisandre, the Red Priestess.