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19 people who are FURIOUS that everyone keeps calling her "Khaleesi"

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 10th April 2014

Something about it being her title not her name, from what I can gather? Mainly in capital letters.

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Some casting suggestions for Game of Thrones

TV Feature | Iain Robertson | 6th March 2014

Game of Thrones returns for its fourth season in April and, frankly, I can't wait. Despite this very website placing it a measly 16th in its list of top TV shows last year, it's easily the best thing on TV. (The list was topped by something called "Breaking Bad" which, although sounding very interesting, hasn't got dragons or naked fire priestesses in it, so fuck knows how that's meant to be better.)

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Misprint ruins cover of Salman Rushdie's Game of Thrones novel

TV News | Ed Williamson | 27th February 2014

Must have taken the bloke ages to write. You'd think they could've at least spelled his name correctly.

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Emilia Clarke sexually harassed on Game of Thrones set by dragon

TV Video | Ed Williamson | 11th February 2014

"He just kept staring at my breasts," the star confirmed. "It was worse than working with Leslie Grantham." 15-minute season four preview thing here.

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Too soon: the end of Empire

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 13th January 2014

This year's fifth season of Boardwalk Empire will be its last. Most good shows these days have the knack of stopping just at the right time, but for me, this one could have run and run.

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True Detective poster validates my entire reason for being, probably

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 9th December 2013

Another year draws to a close, and I hunch over the laptop and begin to put together the top 20 list. It strikes me that I have watched every episode of at least 25 shows, and I stop short of totalling up the number of hours' viewing for fear the self-analysis will leave me howling into the abyss. Have ... have I wasted my life? Then I see this poster, and watch these promos, and know beyond doubt that this is my life's work. Which is handy, because watching TV's not all that hard.

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Harrelson, McConaughey, seemingly not stoned, to be on telly

TV Video | Ed Williamson | 27th November 2013

I don't know what's more surprising: the fact that two of my favourite actors are in an upcoming HBO series or that it appears they managed to hang out together for long enough to film it without ripping enough bongloads to stun a bison.

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Michael Shannon: pretty much just mucking about these days

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 29th September 2013

Whenever I watch Michael Shannon on Boardwalk Empire these days I get the distinct impression he's just goofing off.

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The Newsroom records first-ever TV instance of woman not wearing make-up to bed

TV News | Ed Williamson | 2nd September 2013

This has literally never once happened before in TV or film. Every woman in the history of the moving image has gone to bed fully made-up, and woken up with it still immaculately applied. The Newsroom's Maggie Jordan today advanced the cause of women on TV by exactly 9.6 years, according to my Feminism Calculator. Hey, wait a second, this is just a Mattel Barbie cash register with a sticker of Ellen DeGeneres on it!

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Well done for looking old, Boardwalk Empire poster

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 9th August 2013

Funny thing: Boardwalk Empire's all about old-timey people and stuff that happened to them in, like, olden times and that, but none of the promotional stuff's ever been made to look old before. I guess Instagram filters were less widespread this time last year. (Trailer here too, which would look a lot more authentically Prohibition-era if it wasn't on YouTube.)

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