Just a couple of days after its third season premiere, Game of Thrones has been renewed for a fourth season.
HBO has greenlit another run of the drama series after its premiere on Sunday drew a series high audience in the US.
The material for the fourth season is expected to be drawn from the second half of the third book ‘A Storm of Swords’, as the third season is taken from the first half of the book.
Debuts Easter Monday, April 1 at 4.20pm only on showcase
Based on the chart-topping fantasy book series by George R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones is an epic drama set in and around the chaotic realm of Westeros, where wits cut deep as swords and only the cunning survive. The Emmy® and Golden Globe-winning fantasy series begins its third season Monday, April 1 at 4.20pm (8.30pm primetime) exclusively on showcase for FOXTEL. Continue reading »
Foxtel is boasting that they will be fast-tracking at least 40 shows from the US and the UK over the next few months.
More and more fantastic Foxtel shows are now delivered Express from the US with a host of new hit shows and returning favourites being fast-tracked to Aussie audiences by Foxtel.
Foxtel’s Express from the US strategy is a major initiative to supply the hottest series to Foxtel customers following the episode screening in the US or the UK and in many cases this is coming down to a matter of hours.
Over the next few months more than 40 series will screen Express from the US on Foxtel. Continue reading »
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The 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be broadcast live in Australia from 12pm, Monday 28 January 2013 on TV1 and will be posted here live. Continue reading »
Two of Australia’s leading actresses, Nicole Kidman and Judy Davis, are amongst the star-studded field of nominees for the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards which will be broadcast live from 9am, Monday September 24, only on FOX8.
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Commentary from the Game of Thrones season one DVD has revealed that while it was Sansa Stark’s father’s head that King Joffrey had put up on a spike on the wall, there was another famous face who had been decapitated.
“The last head on the left is George Bush. George Bush’s head appears in a couple of beheading scenes. It’s not a choice, it’s not a political statement. We just had to use whatever head we had around.”
So it was revealed (not surprisingly) last week that Game of Thrones is the most-pirated TV show of the year. But which country is behind the majority of the pirating?
Statistics from TorrentFreak show that Australia tops the list of Game of Thrones downloads, with Aussies making up 10.1% of all downloads (based on one episode).
One of the reasons for this may be the international delay in screening, with Aussies having to wait a week between the US screening and their own.
In terms of cities, London takes the lead when it comes to Game of Thrones downloading, followed by Sydney and Melbourne in the second and third spots.
So what’s makes Game of Thrones so popular on BitTorrent sites?
The show is only available to HBO subscribers in the US, which means a large amount of Americans (which ranks second on the most downloads list) turn to torrents to get their Thrones fix.
In most other countries, such as Australia and the United Kingdom, the show is also only available for viewing on pay TV channels.
In some ways, it’s HBO’s fault for the high number of Game of Thrones downloads, due to the fast they are trying to keep the series “exclusive” (even Netflix was unable to buy the rights to the series).
Top 10 countries:
Australia 10.1%
United States 9.7%
Canada 7.7%
United Kingdom 7.6%
The Netherlands 4.4%
Norway 3.7%
Spain 3.2%
Poland 3.0%
Greece 2.8%
Philippines 2.7%
Top 10 cities:
London 3.0%
Sydney 3.0%
Melbourne 2.9%
Amsterdam 2.2%
Athens 2.2%
Perth 1.8%
Istanbul 1.6%
Brisbane 1.5%
Budapest 1.3%
Madrid 1.3%
Source: Torrentfreak
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