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Report: Thrones to return to Iceland for season 4

Filed Under: Filming, Rumors, Speculation

Þingvellir Iceland

Icelandic geek news site Svarthofdi is reporting via their sources that Game of Thrones will return to the island country to film season 4. Only this time, instead of filming in December, in the snow and ice, they will come in the summer and film against a lush, green landscape. The report indicates filming would start in late July and continue through August. An added bonus of filming then, the days are long and would provide plenty of daylight in which to film.

The report indicates a trio of potential filming locations, including Þingvellir. As you can see from the photo above, Þingvellir offers quite a stunning backdrop for any number of scenes in season 4.

(An interesting aside, Þingvellir translates to “thing field” or “ting field”. A “ting” is a government assembly; in English it is often called a “moot”. This particular location was literally the place of some ancient Icelandic moots. Coincidence?).

Winter Is Coming: I don’t know how trustworthy this site is, so I wouldn’t consider this a done deal just yet. But it does make a lot of sense for the production to return as they’ve already established a crew of locals and have a good working relationship with the Icelandic film board. With unused locations likely starting to get more and more scarce in Northern Ireland, doing more filming in Iceland will provide some fresh, new vistas.

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First nominations for Season Three

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Daenerys

We are already at the time of the year when the first awards are coming up. The early birds are awards as old as Game of Thrones: the third edition of Critics’ Choice Television Awards is going to take place on June 10th this year. You will be able to watch it live on UStream. After one nomination in the first year, and two in the second, GoT is nominated in four categories this time around:

  • Best Drama
  • Best Supporting Actor – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
  • Best Supporting Actress – Emilia Clarke
  • Best Guest Performer – Diana Rigg

Hear Me Roar: And so it begins. GoT has yet to win one of these … Who wants to bet it is going to be this year? Here’s to a good start and a possible season with most awards to date!

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GoT Laughs: Ep. 8 Comic and FB recap

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Comic by Azad Injejikian:

Facebook recap:

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Game of Owns: Commentary Special: Season 1, Episode 8

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Episode 100 – Commentary Special: Season 1, Episode 8

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Description: Another Commentary Special is upon us in this fateful week, the week that Game of Owns turns 100, becoming a century old in the longest summer the show has ever seen. The story begins to fall apart and move in place in this George RR Martin penned episode of Game of Thrones.

For completeness sake, here is the previous Commentary Special episode, #97.

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GoT Exhibition opens in Amsterdam

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Entry WallThis past weekend the Game of Thrones exhibition arrived to Europe for the first time, stopping in Amsterdam (before continuing later to Belfast). Yours truly was there to experience and document the red (well, black, actually) carpet opening on Saturday. We were taken good care of that day by Kirsty from HBO International, and Elana, Director of International Marketing, whose team conceived and put together the exhibition itself. I braved the chilly and overcast morning with my trusty sidekick in tow, and navigated the occasionally hectic day alongisde fellow reporters and proud geeks: the awesome Riema from House Serienjunkies, the intrepid Antonio from the Spanish press agency EFE, Kirsten and Steffie from Serievisie, and a bunch of friendly Romanians.

In the morning, the foreign press were given a private tour of the exhibition, and as you can imagine, it does not disappoint. You have seen the photos and read the reports from the previous stops on the tour, or even been to one in either New York, Toronto, or São Paulo. We enjoyed a close look at the Wildling climbing gear, the infamous purse refused by the prostitues so pleased by Pod, two of the dragon eggs (the third was given as a wedding present to GRRM), the High Septon’s torn-off arm, and of course Ned’s severed head above the Lannister display, overlooking the Stark display portraying their happier days when they were lined up in Winterfell together, awaiting the King’s arrival. One never-before-seen item is specific to this particular incarnation of the exhibition, though, namely Melisandre’s dress, complete with the boots and the gem choker, in honour of the Dutch actress Carice van Houten portraying her. The venue itself, the Posthoornkerk church on Haarlemmerstraat, is quite spectacular as well, invoking the atmospehere of a throne room and a sept at the same time:

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Second Songs

Filed Under: Editorial, Humor, Recap

Twitter-BirdTweetsongs, that is!

FaBio here, back in SoCal, land of thigh-boots and butts. And you know what time it is! We’ve returned for our weekly foray, and boy oh boy, Twitter was good to us again!

You should have memorized this speech (and our process) by now: I, the anglophilic @Axechucker, with assistance from Croatia’s finest @The_Rabbit01 and (after being rudely kicked off for spamming) my bookish alter-ego @KRRCross, gather tweets from all the lands of lore; from here and there, high and low, and everywhere in between. We do not discriminate: we’ll take the lowliest tweet from the most reprehensible little guttersnipe if we think it will make our audience laugh. Or offend their senses.

(Preferably both!)

Tonight’s sweet little slices of cake were taken from tweets bearing the hashtags #GameOfThrones and/or #SecondSons. This week we had strong performances from @caseykassidy and @BigDamnedHerosSir, among many others, new and used alike. @dieslaughing killed it.
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