The New Year celebration is over, but the year-end lists continue and Game Of Thrones seems to be on just about all of them. James Poniewozik of Time has it at the top of his "TV to Look Forward to in 2011" list, HitFix has it on their "20 Anticipated New Shows for 2011" list, Ken Tucker of EW.com has it at the top of his "10 TV events to look forward to in 2011" list and IGN calls Thrones their most anticipated show on their "2011 Midseason TV Preview." UPDATE: We can add Blastr.com, MercuryNew.com (first entry), and Metacritic to the list as well.
All the hype surrounding the show seems to be translating into book sales. A Game of Thrones appeared at #25 on the New York Times bestseller list for mass market paperbacks last week and then climbed a spot to #24 in the most recently published list. I expect it will continue to climb as the show gets closer, and especially when Bantam releases the HBO tie-in edition.
Sibel Kekilli (Shae) added another nomination to her name for the lead role in the German film When We Leave (Die Fremde). Kekilli has won a number of awards for that role and others, while the film leads the nominations lists of the German Film Critics Awards and is this year's German candidate for the foreign language film Academy Award.
Lastly, a site note of interest to our international readers, we just created a page that will track and list all the channels planning to air Game Of Thrones around the world. Check back often for up-to-date air times and stations as we plan to keep it updated.
With HBO's press event for the Television Critics Association Winter 2011 Press Tour only days away, I wanted to give everyone a heads-up on what kind of coverage you can expect from Winter Is Coming. As many of you know, I will be traveling to LA to attend HBO's 3-hour press conference. The conference, which is scheduled to start at 3 PM PST/6 PM EST on Friday, Jan 7th, will include a 30-minute Game Of Thrones panel with George R. R. Martin, David Benioff, DB Weiss, Sean Bean, Peter Dinklage and Emilia Clarke as the scheduled panelists. Of course, HBO execs will be present as well to provide their thoughts on the series.
As to the coverage of the panel, both myself and Fire And Blood will be in attendance. I plan to live-tweet all of the major developments and FaB will be documenting everything from the conference for a full-report to be published later. Want to follow along with the live updates but don't have a Twitter account? No problem. We will be using Cover It Live to stream ALL of my tweets and other relevant tweets and updates as they happen from the event, right here on the site. Hear Me Roar will be monitoring the CiL feed and users are encouraged to join in the discussion there to provide real-time reaction from the fans.
I've been told the panel will include a Q&A period, so hopefully we will get a chance to ask a question or two. If you have any questions for the panelists, post them below and we'll see if we can get answers to some of them. There is a chance we may get some face time with some members of the panel, and if that happens we will have a much better opportunity to get some of our questions answered.
Either way, there should be lots of great info to come out of the event and we will be there LIVE providing you all the latest Thrones news!
UPDATE: Two more Thrones media events have been announced by HBO. First is a 15-minute sneak peek at Game Of Thrones that will happen on Thursday at 9:30 PM PST. The other is two 25-minute roundtable discussions, one with GRRM and one with Benioff & Weiss, that will occur on Friday at 12:45 PM PST. We will be attending both events and will provide full reports, and maybe some live-tweeting, if possible.
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