Game Of Thrones Season 8

"Game of Thrones" author George R R Martin has shared with fans that he has three animated projects, set in the world of "A Song of Ice & Fire", currently under various stages of development with HBO. The 75-year-old writer, in his new blog post, shared his love for Netflix's animated series "Blue Eye Samurai" and then pivoted to share updates on the new shows. "As it happens, HBO and I have our own animated projects, set in the world of A SONG OF ICE & FIRE. None of them have been greenlit yet, but I think we are getting close to taking the next step with a couple of them," Martin shared, adding they began with four ideas for animated show but two of them currently stand shelved. He, however, hoped that the projects will find a life as "nothing is ever dead for good in Hollywood". The storyline for the two spin off projects is still under wraps Talking about the third show in the development, Martin wrote, "Work on the other two animated projects continues apace, however... ..

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The show, whose first episode of the eighth season premiered last week, airs on HBO at 9 pm Eastern Time

Winter came around four hours early for some lucky "Game of Thrones" fans, who caught the highly-anticipated final season premiere of the epic HBO show on DirecTV Now. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the first episode of season eight landed on the AT&T-owned service around 5 pm ET, instead of its 9 pm ET premiere time on Sunday. The episode was live for some users for hours on DirecTV Now, before it was taken down. Besides reports of the first chapter of the last season being live, some users reported that they received a push notification that the episode was ready to be viewed. "Apparently our system was as excited as we are for 'Game of Thrones' tonight and gave a few DirecTV Now customers early access to the episode by mistake. "When we became aware of the error, we immediately fixed it and we look forward to tuning in this evening," a representative for AT&T said. Whether it is hackers getting their hands on future episodes or castings, script summaries and marketing

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Filming for the final season started in October last year, and is expected to continue until mid-2018