For those for you who were not watching HBO tonight (Saturday) here’s the teaser you missed:

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More coming soon. Like real soon. Like tomorrow (Sunday), just before the 8pm (eastern time) movie. So tune in ten minutes early to catch a new promo.

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Hiya, kids. Heh, heh, heh.

Olivier as Big Daddy? Well, no, but sort of. Dunk found him annoying. Harry had dealings with him, Jason with a namesake. He’s done Dickens, Shakespeare, Thackeray, Chaucer, and Pratchett, and might have run into our dog as well.

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All of you waiting eagerly for every tidbit of news about the HBO series of GAME OF THRONES, be sure not to miss this week’s issue of ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, which features a “first look” at the show, with ten exclusive photographs from the set.

The issue is now on sale across the nation at newsstands and bookstores. But grab a copy soon, it may not be there long.

Be warned, the text does contain spoilers for those who have not read the book.

The EW website also features some of same pix at
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20385926_20442931,00.html
so check that out as well. However, the print edition of the magazine includes some extra pictures that the website does not.

Hope you all enjoy your “set visits” as much as I enjoyed mine.

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FWIW, the feature that preceded us in Belfast’s Paint Hall — the medieval comedy YOUR HIGHNESS — now has trailers out on YouTube.

Here’s the longer, raunchier one, for them what like such stuff.
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If you look closely at some of the backgrounds, you’ll catch some glimpses of a throne room… the very one that eventually became the throne room of the Red Keep in our own show, albeit after a major redress. It’s a massive set, entirely filling one of the Paint Hall’s four pods.

Not sure how many of you are interested in such crunchy behind the scenes stuff, but there ’tis for those who are.

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I’ve left the winds and rain and mud of Belfast behind, and I’m now on sunny Malta in the middle of the Med. Sorta. Actually, yesterday I was on the streets of King’s Landing watching Yoren school Arya in being a boy, and today I was way out east on the edge of the Dothraki sea, as Dany tended her stricken sun and stars.

I’m seeing some great stuff. Really truly. We have an AMAZING cast, and it’s a privilege to see them in action.

Okay, okay, not everything is idyllic. There were torrential rains on Malta last week that washed away a whole Dothraki camp (missed that), and back in Belfast two of our actors have taken a dislike to each other and got in a fight that left one of them bloodied… but other than that…

More when I get home… if I can find the energy…

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Ashford Castle has some impressive halls and chambers… but nothing to compare to the high hall of the Eyrie, and the throne room in the Red Keep of King’s Landing. Hot damn.

I’d say more, but in a few minutes we’re off to Castle Black and the Wall.

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Froggy would like to hint around with you madmen some more, but Andy is too damn tired right now. It’s less than a week before I fly off to Ireland, and I’m still exhausted from the long trip to Australia… so I will forgo the games this time around and just tell you straight out that David & Dan and HB0 have filled two more roles for GAME OF THRONES.

The part of Hot Pie will be played by a newcomer named BEN HAWKEY. And as Lommy Greenhands, we will have EROS VLAHOS, best known for his role in the “Nanny McPhee” movies.

BEN HAWKEY

I hear some of the purists pointing out that Lommy and Hot Pie don’t actually appear in the first novel. You’re not wrong. In the books, they don’t appear until the first Arya chapter of A CLASH OF KINGS… but they’ll be in season one, looks like.

Other announcements should be coming soon, though it’s not likely that I’ll be the one making them. I’ll be packing or flying to Ireland, and afterwards to Malta. We’ve very close to naming actors for the roles of Stiv and Ser Meryn Trant, waiting only HBO approval, and Nina and D&D have been looking at Kevan Lannisters as well. Soon, I think…

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There has been all sorts of news on the HBO series during the month that I was attending worldcon and travelling in Australia.

I am probably the last person in the world to upload these… but for any of you who don’t watch TRUE BLOOD, and have somehow missed these elsewhere… here’s the new GAME OF THRONES trailer that HBO premiered before the TRUE BLOOD season finale, and a short “behind the scenes” feature as well.

THE RAVEN
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IN PRODUCTION
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Parris and I saw these on her laptop in Sydney, in the middle of the Australian night, the night they aired, but it was not until we returned home that we were able to see them on a full-size screen. I hope you enjoyed them as much as we did.

The clips will be old news for most of you, I know. So here’s a few tidbits about the series that might be new to you.

We have a couple new castings to announce. The part of Rickon Stark will be played by ART PARKINSON, a Belfast native son. Rickon will be older than he is in the books, but still the youngest Stark. And MIA SOTIRIOU has been cast as the maegi Mirri Maz Duur. Also, a small change for Elyes Gabel. He will now he playing Rakharo rather than Jhogo. It was felt that Jhogo and Drogo sounded too much alike when spoken aloud, and might cause confusion.

Lots more going on besides, but I’m way out of the loop at the moment. So much to catch up on after a month on the road.

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