Winter is, indeed, coming.
HBO has greenlighted highly anticipated fantasy series “Game of Thrones.”
The premium network has picked up the project for a first season debut next spring (below is the first released photo from the series). Nine episodes plus the pilot have been ordered. Production will begin in Belfast this June.
I’m thinking this must be rather condensed to fit that few episodes.
Chris Hudak
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Take your latest CGI of an improbably-hued accretion disk and shove it. I wanted to watch future or other-world parents ragging on their conflicted, rebellious teenaged offspring;
Resources:
Caprica DVD
http://www.capricadvd.com/
Jane Espenson
http://www.janeespenson.com/[From Down To Earth: An interview with Caprica Executive Producer Jane Espenson]
I’ve seen the first few episodes of this now, and it’s very good. Good enough that cancellation is inevitable I fear 
Ordered Monday, arrived Tuesday and put on charge overnight (16 hours required before use) set up today.
Sennheiser RS-130 and HDR-130. Base station and two sets of headphones.
Supplementary headphones.
Just two little AAA NiMH batteries.
Base station and head set.
Installed in the home theatre room for late night viewing of 24, Lost and other noisy shows.
The base station charges two sets of headphones OK.
The SKY HD box conveniently outputs an analog stereo signal simultaneously with the optical digital 5.1
UPDATE: 4 Feb 2010.
Today this SCART->3.5mm headphone adapter arrived and I found it worked to get stereo out of my home theatre unit so now I can get headphone sound while watching DVDs or AVIs on a USB flash drive. The sound out on the SCART turns on when the HT speaker volume is set to Min (0).
The Guardian’s top 50 television dramas of all time
Buffy not #1? No Dexter? Although the funniest part is the level of cluelessness in the comments. If some of the Buffy haters on there actually have seen any episodes they must have been the expurgated versions the BBC prepared for daytime TV. Because it’s a children’s programme obviously. One that has to be heavily cut for pre-watershed airing.
HBO is stoked about how ‘Thrones’ is coming together… [From HBO: 'Games of Thrones' dailies 'fantastic']
They’ll run out of books in the series if GRRM doesn’t speed up a little. But I am looking forward to seeing this if it gets greenlit.
Season 2 of Being Human starts on BBC3 and BBC HD at 10:30PM on Sunday January 10th. I’ve set my SKY HD box to record the series on HD.
And Heroes starts on BBC HD on Saturday 9th, so that’s on series record too.
Finished watching season one of Six Feet Under yesterday. I’d managed to miss this show somehow so now I’m catching up with the complete box set which was on sale at Amazon. The first season was very good and I’m looking forward to the rest. It’s one of those shows that was made during the transition to widescreen so the first two seasons are in 4:3 aspect ratio and the last three are in 16:9.
Another show I never saw that I got the complete box set of is The Wire – a show that many critics deem the best TV drama show ever made. I’ll eventually get around to that. I still have to watch the last two seasons of The Shield first.
It started a couple of years ago on some of the cable channels but now it’s spreading. TV shows getting split into two mini-seasons per year with months between. I see some network shows aren’t returning in 2010 until March or even April – that’s a four month hiatus between the halves of the season. Some cable shows have even longer breaks.
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