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HBO Renews Game of Thrones for Third Season

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  • #2
    Burning Eclipse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,943 ✭✭✭Burning Eclipse


    Mr E wrote: »
    In before Dower. :)

    http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=89052

    Not really a shocker, but glad to see it confirmed anyway!

    Lol, thanked for the first 3 words ;)


  • #3
    Son0vagun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Son0vagun


    Was totally expected!

    Interesting to see how they'll do season 3. Storm of Swords is a very long book, full of great plots and twists. I'd love to see them spilt it into two seasons, it's far too epic for ten one hour episodes.


  • #4
    Tzar Chasm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,069 ✭✭✭Tzar Chasm


    Brilliant news

    Really tho they should be looking at 16 episode seasons.


  • #5
    stesaurus
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    Was fully expecting them to greenlight the next 2 seasons and film them back to back.
    Surprised only greenlighting 1 season at a time. Those kids will start to grow pretty quick


  • #6
    super_furry
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    Nice. If this continues they're going to outpace Martin's writing on the next book.


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  • #7
    Syferus
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    s.welstead wrote: »
    Was fully expecting them to greenlight the next 2 seasons and film them back to back.
    Surprised only greenlighting 1 season at a time. Those kids will start to grow pretty quick

    No tv show does that.

    They'll just elongate the time-frame in the tv show, it taking 4-5 real-time years will effect nothing.


  • #8
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    No surprise - I believe it's currently HBO's second biggest show after "True Blood". Not sure how it compares to True Blood's ratings in its second season.


  • #9
    Cardinal Richelieu
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    ixoy wrote: »
    No surprise - I believe it's currently HBO's second biggest show after "True Blood". Not sure how it compares to True Blood's ratings in its second season.

    3.8 million viewers for Season 2 ep 1 then increased to 3.9 million for ep 2 were it normally tales off. Season 4 of True Blood averaged 4.97 million per episode.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/10/game-of-thrones-season-3-renewed_n_1400121.html

    Dinklage signed on for 6 seasons.


  • #10
    Syferus
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    Tzar Chasm wrote: »
    Brilliant news

    Really tho they should be looking at 16 episode seasons.

    No way. Part of the reason it's 10 episodes a season rather than HBO's usual 12 for dramas is because it helps mitigate the huge cost of production, it allows the 10 that make it to our screens to be beautiful, detailed and avoid the cheapness or lack of scope alot of period/sci-fi/fantasy shows resort to stay under their production budgets.

    What's there is working spectacularly; don't try to fix something that was never broken.


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
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    Dinklage signed on for 6 seasons should definitely be in spoiler tags! I thought no-one was safe!


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  • #12
    Adolf Hipster
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    Pappa Dolla wrote: »
    Dinklage signed on for 6 seasons should definitely be in spoiler tags! I thought no-one was safe!
    He could be in flashbacks easily.


  • #13
    Funglegunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    From George R R Martin's blog:
    Like the first two seasons, it will be ten episodes long. This one will cover (roughly) the first half or thereabouts of A STORM OF SWORDS, the third novel in the series.

    I'll be writing the seventh episode, with the working title "Autumn Storms."


  • #14
    stesaurus
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    Tzar Chasm wrote: »
    Brilliant news

    Really tho they should be looking at 16 episode seasons.
    Syferus wrote: »
    No way. Part of the reason it's 10 episodes a season rather than HBO's usual 12 for dramas is because it helps mitigate the huge cost of production, it allows the 10 that make it to our screens to be beautiful, detailed and avoid the cheapness or lack of scope alot of period/sci-fi/fantasy shows resort to stay under their production budgets.

    What's there is working spectacularly; don't try to fix something that was never broken.

    It will actually be 10 episodes to make up roughly half of a storm of swords. So in total if season 4 goes ahead it will be 20 epsiodes pretty much for that book.
    Syferus wrote: »
    No tv show does that.

    They'll just elongate the time-frame in the tv show, it taking 4-5 real-time years will effect nothing.

    Well it does effect things. You'll have a
    grown up Arya by the time we get to book 5 which will be at least 4 years away. Bran too.
    It will be a bit weird with watching the show back to back and seeing rather big changes in the kids but only weeks have passed in the timeline.

    Anyway just because no tv show has done that before doesn't mean anything. This is a bit of an unusual production. TV shows don't get scripted so far in advance but GoT could easily be as the source is already there. It might actually help to lower production costs by filming in larger blocks.
    The biggest hurdle would be the actors and their schedules really.

    To be honest though i don't really care so long as it keeps getting more seasons.


  • #15
    stevenmu
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    For the most part the books are pretty vague on time lines anyway, and having any younger cast members who may or may not survive grow into their late teens or early adulthood would fit pretty well imo. Also I think it's said later that (all books spoiler)
    dragons take a long time to grow


  • #16
    calex71
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    I just started book 4 but got the impression that at most 3 years had passed from the beginning? Is that about right?


    Any way I've seen storm of swords on sale as 2 volumes recently so I'd imagine the series will follow that, so much happens it would be a shame to see it rushed, though it could be all the more epic for it,
    it would just be a blood bath from start to finish if
    condensed into 10 episodes :D

    Especially Dani's arc and the
    red wedding and the killing of Joffrey

    Oh and then there's the wall and beyond ..... how cool will it be to see thoes events on screen!!!!!


  • #17
    stevenmu
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    calex71 wrote: »
    I just started book 4 but got the impression that at most 3 years had passed from the beginning? Is that about right?
    I'm not sure, but I think it would be in that ball park all right. But in terms of the book to TV conversion, if it is say 3 years in the book, then making it 5/6 in the TV show won't be throwing things out wildly. If it was only weeks/months in the books and then became 5/6 years in the TV show that'd be a big change, but I don't think 3 years to 5/6 years will make much difference.


  • #18
    Pepe LeFrits
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Dinklage signed on for 6 seasons should definitely be in spoiler tags! I thought no-one was safe!
    His ghost comes back to give sage advice to Jon Snow for 5 seasons. Later the ghosts of Ned and Robert Baratheon also show up while Jon is on Endor celebrating the destruction of the Death Star.

    Yeah, Martin really jumps the shark in the later books.


  • #19
    calex71
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    Pepe LeFrits wrote: »
    His ghost comes back to give sage advice to Jon Snow for 5 seasons. Later the ghosts of Ned and Robert Baratheon also show up while Jon is on Endor celebrating the destruction of the Death Star.

    Yeah, Martin really jumps the shark in the later books.

    Hmmm this explains a whole bunch of loose ends, and in the end I bet it was the bloody wookie all along..... those hairy so and so's just can't be trusted :D


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