Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones and Mrs Biggs actors will make up part of the cast for the new BBC One film Common.

Robert Pugh (Game of Thrones), Daniel Mays (Mrs Biggs), Susan Lynch (Monroe), Jodhi May (The Ice Cream Girls), Andrew Tiernan (Prisoners’ Wives) and Nico Mirallegro (The Village) will make up the cast for the one-off production.

From Accused writer Jimmy McGovern, Common is a 90-minute TV movie that looks at the potential injustice of the Joint Enterprise or Common Purpose law. Continue reading »

New BBC drama By Any Means has added two guest stars.

Game of Thrones actor Josef Altin and Doctors Bessie Cursons will both guest star in the first season of the police drama.

Altin is known to Game of Thrones fans as Pyp, a character who featured in the first and occasionally in the second season of the HBO drama.

Cursons was a former Britain’s Got Talent finalist and is currently featuring in the children’s comedy-drama My Phone Genie. Continue reading »

Former Misfits actor Iwan Rheon believes that a movie version of the series is likely to happen.

The Welsh actor, who is currently appearing in Game of Thrones and Vicious, thinks that if the cast were available, it would happen.

“I think it might happen. I think it’s quite likely that it will happen, yeah, if they can get everyone together to do it,” he told Digital Spy.

“I think I’d be an idiot not to [do it],” he said. “I think it’d be a really fun thing to go back and revisit, because obviously I feel so much love for Misfits and gratitude to them and those guys at [production company] Clerkenwell Films and E4, and how they gave me such a huge opportunity and gave me a lot of really challenging stuff to do while I was there. So yeah, if I get the opportunity, I’d love to. Continue reading »

Game of Thrones actor Iain Glen has been cast in the new ITV medical drama Breathless.

The Scottish actor, who plays the role of Ser Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones, will lead a strong cast in the 1960s drama.

He will be joined by Shaun Dingwall (Above Suspicion), Natasha Little (Kidnap and Ransom), Oliver Chris (Green Wing), Zoe Boyle (Sons of Anarchy), Joanna Page (The Syndicate), Catherine Steadman (The Tudors), Sarah Parish (Hatfields & McCoys), Ronny Jhutti (Vexed) and Pippa Haywood (Mr Selfridge) in the series.

Irene Adler has been cast in the American Sherlock Holmes drama Elementary.

British Game of Thrones actress Natalie Dormer has been cast as the mysterious character alongside Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller) and Watson (Lucy Liu).

“We’re moving to the next chapter in our show – and in some ways, to a previous chapter in Holmes’ story,” said executive producer and creator Rob Doherty. “Irene Adler is perhaps the most pivotal relationship in Sherlock’s life, and I can’t think of an actress better suited to the challenge than Natalie.”

Game of Thrones characters don’t exactly have the easiest names to remember, right?

Well, everyone besides Jon Snow, that is.

To help newcomers remember the names of the many characters on the show, the people over at Vulture have put together this handy bunch of mnemonics. Continue reading »

The Game of Thrones premiere has set a somewhat unwanted record on BitTorrent.

The third season opener was shared in one torrent by 163,088 people in the first few hours after the show aired on HBO in the US, according to TorrentFreak.

The figure passes the previous record holder, which was a Heroes episode that had 144,663 peers sharing one torrent.

TorrentFreak are also reporting that after two days the Game of Throne premiere has been downloaded over a million times. Continue reading »

Just a couple of days after its third season premiere, Game of Thrones has been renewed for a fourth season.

HBO has greenlit another run of the drama series after its premiere on Sunday drew a series high audience in the US.

The material for the fourth season is expected to be drawn from the second half of the third book ‘A Storm of Swords’, as the third season is taken from the first half of the book.

An actor who has featured in Game of Thrones, Casualty and Sherlock has had his ear bitten off during a dispute in Newcastle.

Clive Mantle was involved in an altercation at a Travelodge hotel on Foster Street in Newcastle after reportedly asking fellow guests to keep the noise down.

A spokesperson for Mantle’s agents Sarahband Associates said part of his ear was reattached in hospital.

“The part of the ear that was bitten off was found and sewn back on. Mr Mantle said the police, ambulance and hospital staff were amazing,” the spokesman told BBC News. Continue reading »

The parallels between Game of Thrones and The Princess Bride.