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loaded question: what video game would you like to see adapted for film or TV?

Mon, Jan 16, 2023
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Whom would you cast in major roles, and whom would you like to see direct it or act as showrunner?

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Game of Thrones Season 4 trailer: here be hot guys and dragons

Tue, Jan 14, 2014
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Ack! I still haven’t seen Season 3!

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HBO isn’t dying, so they think they’re winning (on the rampant pirating of Game of Thrones)

Mon, Apr 08, 2013
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I can’t help but recall that thing that Upton Sinclair said about people not understanding something when their salaries depend on their not understanding it…

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question of the day: Do you follow TV networks or TV shows (or both)?

Mon, Apr 18, 2011
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Between DVR, TV on DVD, and on-demand, and downloading, it’s often possible to be a big fan of a television show and be unaware of what network airs it. Does that matter?

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trailer break: ‘Game of Thrones’

Tue, Apr 12, 2011
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Could it be? Serious high fantasy given a serious treatment by TV? Could this be the Battlestar Galactica of high fantasy?

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