WiC Weekly: January 10-16

Time to run through the top bits of Game of Thrones news from the past week. Welcome to WiC Weekly.

What will the episode titles for Season 6 be? We have no idea, but the internet has plenty of ideas.

Game of Thrones gets another cast member.

Mark Addy looks back on the early days of the show, back when the cast wasn’t under such close scrutiny.

Continuing with the cast interviews, Emilia Clarke said that Game of Thrones Season 6 has “the biggest moments on television that have ever existed.” So she’s trying to undersell it, then.

Fans continue to come to grips with George R.R. Martin’s announcement that The Winds of Winter won’t come out in time for Season 6. Maybe this’ll help.

Fandoms cross: Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom) asked Emilia Clarke for a role on Game of Thrones. Well, he’s already got the accent.

On this week’s edition of the Small Council, we’re holding out hope that some of our favorite book characters show up in Season 6. Hey, it could happen!

Vote for who you want to turn up. It’s a wide field.

Years after he left the show, Sean Bean still gets questions about reprising the role of Ned Stark. He’s up for doing it again, unlikely as that seems.

Still, just because Ned is dead, doesn’t mean he won’t show up in one way or another in Season 6…

Finally, we looks at how the influence of Game of Thrones is being felt elsewhere in the TV landscape. ABC, for example, invoked the show repeatedly when discussing its new show about King David, from the Bible.