HBO's latest Game of Thrones prequel series hasn't even premiered yet, but there are already plans for it to run for at least one more season.
Today, HBO announced both A Knight for the Seven Kingdoms and House of the Dragon have been renewed for second and fourth seasons, respectively. In addition to the Game of Thrones prequels, the network has also put an order in for more episodes of Tim Robinson's The Chair Company, Rachel Sennott's I Love LA, and Task starring Mark Ruffalo.
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After spending so much time in its first season just getting its many players on the board, House of the Dragon's second season appeared poised to let the dragons dance and finally plunge Westeros into a cataclysmic civil war. An escalation of fiery battles and royal treachery felt like the logical next step for a series chronicling how the Targaryens fell from grace in the past and sowed seeds that would go on to save the world in the distant future.
Instead, House of the Dragon's second chapter put much more focus on the quiet moments that shape history rather than the explosive ones that go on to become legends. The choice made some sen …
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In the summer of 2017, I was brought on to be the third host of a weekly Game of Thrones recap show that streamed on Facebook Live. At the time, I was an editor at GQ, and I found the assignment beneath me. I was supposed to be squirreling away at the dark art of turning shoddy copy into less shoddy copy; I never wanted to be on camera.
Also, I barely knew anything about Game of Thrones. I watched it casually, but I hadn't read any of the books. I was allergic to "lore." I had trouble distinguishing the show's various bearded white guys. But my boss had tasked me with de-nerdifying the Facebook Live show after someone had derogatorily sugge …
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House of the Dragon's first season closed out with House Targaryen divided into two factions readying themselves for an all-out war to claim the Iron Throne, and in the show's new season 2 trailer(s), both sides seem ready to burn the entire world down in order to win.
Keeping in theme with this season's further exploration of George R.R. Martin's novella The Princess and the Queen, or, the Blacks and the Greens, HBO has debuted two new House of the Dragon trailers - one "Black" and the other "Green" - highlighting Princess Rhaenyra's (Emma D'Arcy) and Queen Alicent's plans to destroy one another. In both trailers, it's clear that Rhaenyra …
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The rumors were true: Warner Bros. Discovery’s revamped streaming service combining HBO Max and Discovery Plus is just called Max.
The company announced the new name at a big press event on Wednesday, where it also discussed why it’s dropping the “HBO” branding from the name and previewed some of the shows you’ll be able to watch on the new service. There are a lot of new shows on the way, including The Penguin, True Detective: Night Country (the show’s fourth season), and even an animated series focused on Gremlins.
Here’s our coverage of the news from the event.
The Game of Thrones franchise is getting a new entry on Warner Bros. Discovery's newly-announced Max streaming service. The new prequel, called A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: the Hedge Knight, has been rumored for some time, but it wasn't clear which part of the ample Game of Thrones lore it would borrow from.
At today's HBO Max rebranding event, HBO head Casey Bloys confirmed that the new show has been ordered straight to series and would focus on Dunk and Egg. In the world of Game of Thrones, Dunk is a famous knight, and Egg is his squire, both of whom travel the land righting wrongs.
Game of Thrones is coming to an end in 2019. Over the course of its run, HBO’s epic fantasy show has proved to be one of television’s most popular shows, and the network isn’t letting it go just yet. It has a number of spinoffs in the works, ensuring that George R.R. Martin’s world will continue to appear for years to come.
With a year to go before Game of Thrones ends, it’ll be a while before any revival of the franchise hits screens, but there’s plenty of news, developments, and speculation to come as one show leaves, and another arrives.
Things got dark on House of the Dragon last night as characters stole dragons and other characters made super incestuous life choices. And all of it was done under the cover of darkness, leading many viewers wondering if their TVs were busted.
But your TV is not busted. Your TV is a victim of the episode's director, Miguel Sapochnik. The man can presumably see in the dark because this is the second time he's directed an episode in the Game of Thrones franchise cast in such darkness people questioned their own eyes.
Back in 2019, Sapochnik directed "The Long Night," a harrowing hour of TV where the many characters of Game of Thrones gathere …
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Though House of the Dragon reportedly gave HBO its biggest premiere of all time and has already been renewed for a second season, co-showrunner Miguel Sapochnik's getting ready to exit the series for his next big thing.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sapochnik is leaving House of the Dragon just as he's signed a new first-look development deal with HBO that will give the network priority consideration for whatever projects he starts developing next. Sapochnik will remain attached to House of the Dragon as an executive producer alongside newcomer Alan Taylor, who will also serve as an executive producer and direct episodes in the serie …
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Despite glitches for some people trying to watch via Fire TV Sticks, HBO announced that the first episode of its Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon recorded the network's biggest premiere of all time, recording 9.986 million viewers across linear and HBO Max streaming on Sunday night in the US alone.
The original Game of Thrones series closed out its run with 13.7 million live viewers on linear channels for the finale in 2019, clocking over 19 million views with the addition of streaming and video-on-demand numbers. According to HBO, ahead of the Dragon premiere, interest in the original series - with the entire series now availabl …
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