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George R.R. Martin has revealed how he envisions the Iron Throne when writing A Song of Ice and Fire – and it’s nothing like the Game of Thrones version
The Iron Throne is the most iconic prop from the hit HBO series Game of Thrones, and yet in a new log post, George R.R. Martin sets the record straight about what it’s actually supposed to look like.

Next: 3x05 -- Search and Recover (2) (Jun/30/2013)
When a mission goes terribly awry, Tom and Pope must rely on each other to survive. Meanwhile, Weaver and company search desperately for two members of the 2nd Mass who have gone missing. And Marina takes matters into her own hands in Charleston, disregarding Tom's authority.

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Falling Skies


From executive producer Steven Spielberg, Falling Skies stars Noah Wyle as a former college professor who becomes the leader of a group of soldiers and civilians struggling against an occupying alien force.

Moon Bloodgood co-stars as Anne Glass, a therapist who works with the surviving children to help them cope with the traumatic situation. The series also stars Drew Roy as Hal and Maxim Knight as Matt, Tom's two sons; and Seychelle Gabriel as Lourdes, an orphaned teenager who helps run the group's commissary. (Source: TNT)

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Next: 3x05 -- Search and Recover (2) (Jun/30/2013)
When a mission goes terribly awry, Tom and Pope must rely on each other to survive. Meanwhile, Weaver and company search desperately for two members of the 2nd Mass who have gone missing. And Marina takes matters into her own hands in Charleston, disregarding Tom's authority.


Prev: 3x04 -- At All Costs (1) (Jun/23/2013)
After the people of Charleston defeat another alien attack with the help of new advanced weaponry, Tom is invited to meet with a powerful leader (guest star Stephen Collins). While Hal wrestles with an invasive evil, Ben struggles with his identity and the notion of being human again. And Anne uncovers startling new information that puts everyone in jeopardy.

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Cast
Noah Wyle
As Tom Mason
Moon Bloodgood
As Anne Glass
Drew Roy
As Hal Mason
Jessy Schram
As Karen Nadler (S01, recurring afterward)
Connor Jessup
As Ben Mason
Maxim Knight
As Matthew 'Matt' Mason
Seychelle Gabriel
As Lourdes
Peter Shinkoda
As Dai (S01-S02)
Sarah Carter
As Margaret (as Sarah Sanguin Carter)
Mpho Koaho
As Anthony
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Reviews: 2 Fantastic Adventure Through Suburban WastelandRating: 4 likes, 0 dislikes
This series starts at a point I wish series like "V" could have reached: the post-alient-invasion wasteland where survivors are trying to evade capture and use guerrilla tactics to do damage wherever they can, not to mention trying to figure out what the aliens want with Earth. Read more

Review posted on Saturday, May 26th 2012 at 3:54 pm
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All Falling Skies news Recaps2x10: A More Perfect Union recap: The episode begins and Gen. Bressler lets Tom and the 2nd Mass go. He explains he's been waiting for Manchester to come to his senses and let them go on the offensive, but since he's not, he's declaring martial law. Tom won't go along with it, so Bressler orders them locked back up. But before they can go back in their cells, there's a signal for an outer perimeter breech. They then charge upstairs to find skitters in the common area, led by Red Eye. Bressler's ready to shoot when Ben pops out from among the rebels. Bressler still won't give the order to stand down so members of the 2nd Mass stand in front of the skitters, in a sign of solidarity... read more.

2x9: The Price of Greatness recap: The episode begins with Porter leading the 2nd mass to an underground mall. He explains to them that when the aliens attacked, the mall was under construction. The top of the mall was destroyed but the base remained fine. The 2nd mass is welcomed and cheered by hundreds of people waiting for them. Next, Weaver meets his daughter Jean. She is glad to see her father again. She tells him that things with her boyfriend got all messed up after they left from the base. Weaver says it is ok and asks his daughter not to disappear on him again. Pope assures his Berserkers that they would leave this place soon. Matt looks at the kids and is happy that they might have a school in Charleston... read more.

2x8: Death March recap: The episode begins with second mass on its way to Charleston. In the vehicle, Tom is thinking about the last moments he spent with Ben before leaving. On the bus, Matt wonders how long they will take to reach. Tom tells him it will take them, 12 hours if they don’t take any detours. But Anthony tells Tom that they are low on fuel and so they should scrounge up somewhere; but Tom says a no. Matt hands over his will to his father. He thinks that he might die as everyone was saying that they might not reach Charleston. Tom reassures his son. Tector is driving for Weaver. Hal is driving with Poe and Maggie. Pope tells them that they need to make a stop as the all the beer he had is taking a toll on him... read more.

2x7: Molon Labe recap: The episode begins with Ben and Karen walking through the woods. Ben is taking her to a place he knows. Karen wonders how he knows about this place and he tells her about the some skitters that were able to resist the effects of the harness. And he tells her about how he was contacted by the Red Eye through his spikes. As they are walking, their spikes glow and they realize that some skitters are around nearby. But they aren’t the rebels. Just then the overlord arrives and Karen looks happy. She tells Ben that the overlord has been in contact with the rebel leader. Ben is visibly scared. Karen has got back her harness and she is holding the slug in her hands. She wants Ben to go with her and get himself harnessed... read more.

2x6: Homecoming recap: The episode begins with Tom and Anne waking up in their room at the hospital; they have been camping at the hospital for around two weeks. He tells Anne that he misses few things like the smell of coffee brewing, kids fighting and Rebecca breaking them up. He then apologizes for bringing up his wife. She understands. Ton arrives late for Weaver’s briefing. Weaver thinks that the team has become too complacent and that the drills too seem to be sloppy and tardy. Just then Weaver’s arm begins to twitch and he falls to the ground. Everyone rushes towards him. Tom sees that Weaver’s veins are turning black. Weaver wonders as to what have the aliens done to him. They rush him to Anne... read more.
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Creator: Robert Rodat
Executive Producer: Remi Aubuchon, Greg Beeman, Robert Rodat, Graham Yost, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, Steven Spielberg
Co-Executive Producer: David Weddle, Bradley Thompson, Greg Beeman

View full crew list Recurring Guests

• Ryan Robbins as Tector (13 eps)
• Brad Kelly as Lyle (12 eps)
• Dylan Authors as Jimmy (10 eps)
• Dale Dye as Col. Porter (9 eps)
• Luciana Carro as Crazy Lee (9 eps)
• Daniyah Ysrayl as Rick (9 eps)
• Bruce Gray (1) as Uncle Scott (8 eps)
• Brandon Jay McLaren as Jamil Dexter (6 eps)
• Jessy Schram as Karen Nadler (6 eps)
• Melissa Kramer as Sarah (6 eps)

• View All Recurring Guests Falling Skies Classification: Scripted
Genre: Action | Military/War | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Status: Returning Series
Network: TNT ( USA)
Airs: Sundays at 10:00 pm
Runtime: 60 Minutes
Premiere: June 19, 2011
Episode Order: 10

A youtube of an bemuzed  woman trying to park her car in a Belfast street has become an internet sensation.

It shows a driver taking about half an hour and numerous attempts to reverse her car into a space between two vehicles in the Holyland area of south Belfast.

The 30-minute attempt at parking was filmed by  students living in the street, and has been viewed more than 1,000,000 times online.

Ashley Banjo steps up to face his biggest ever challenge as he attempts to get the whole town of Stockton-On-Tees , Teesside on its feet and dancing in the streets once more . In his most ambitious dance project to date, Ashley Banjo, with the help of Diversity, will hit the town of Stockton-on-Tees this summer, to persuade the people of this market town in the North-East of England to join him in a street dance extravaganza, which he hopes will bring the whole community together.

Michel Kirland, Head of Factual Entertainment, Sky said: “I am thrilled to be working with Ashley again on such an ambitious project. Ashley is hugely talented and it’s his passion and commitment to street dance that we think will encourage the whole of Stockton-On-Tees to dance in the streets”.

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Stockton-on-Tees has a proud dance heritage. Through the war years and right up until the 1960s, the North East’s thriving market town boasted an impressive three dance halls, more than average for a town of its size. From the jitterbug and the jive to the shuffle and swing, each weekend the halls and clubs reverberated to the sound of music and laughter as the community danced its cares away. But in the 1970s the dance halls began to close, and it seemed that Stockton had forgotten how to dance.

In recent times Stockton like much of the North East of England and Teesside in particularly has and is going through a period of economic depression .

Despite this Stockton has a proud heritage and was instrumental in Britains Industrial Revolution .

`In 1822, Stockton witnessed an event which changed the face of the world forever and heralded the dawn of a new era in trade, industry and travel. The first rail of George Stephenson's Stockton and Darlington Railway was laid near St. John's crossing on Bridge Road. Hauled by Locomotion No 1, the great engineer himself manned the engine on its first journey in 1825. Fellow engineer and friend, Timothy Hackworth acted as guard. This was the world's first passenger railway, connecting Stockton with Shildon. The opening of the railway greatly boosted Stockton, making it easier to bring coal to the factories; however the port declined as business had moved down river to Middlesbrough`

`Stockton witnessed another discovery in 1827. Local chemist John Walker invented the friction match in his shop at 59 High Street. `
Ashley Banjo commented: “I have always believed that street dance is for everyone, whether you are part of a crew or going solo. This is the biggest challenge I have ever taken on, let’s hope I can give Stockton-on-Tees their dancing spirit back.”

Now Ashley plans to change all that – he aims to create a dazzling street-dance showcase that will reinvigorate the town, create a new community spirit and get thousands of people dancing in celebration. He’ll start by bringing together people who have similar jobs but who have never met. From shop assistants and market traders, teachers and librarians, to council staff and care workers, Ashley will unite the town’s workers by choreographing a series of individual street dance routines.

Then, for one day only, Stockton’s high street, the widest in Britain, will be transformed into the UK’s largest open air venue as Ashley and his workers bring the routines together. He’ll lead the whole town in an unforgettable, show-stopping street-dance finale.

Tim Whitwell Head of Programmes, added: “This is going to be an inspirational and entertaining series, with Ashley creating an unprecedented street dance spectacle. There will be heart-warming stories, personal transformations and surprises galore, as well as some aesome choreography. It willbe a unique TV event.”

Hardwick Community Centre  -  possible venue for local trials ?

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14 pilot shows - including Alpha House and Zombieland - are to be put to the public vote on Lovefilm and Amazon.com.

Viewers can submit feedback influencing which shows get made into full series.
The fourteen shows are made by independent companies and produced by Amazon Studios, the film and series production arm of Amazon.
"This is the first time Amazon Studios has done this," said Simon Morris, Lovefilm's chief officer.
Eight adult comedies and six children's animation series will be put to the public
The shows will be aired on Amazon's pay subscription services - Amazon Prime in the US, and Lovefilm in the UK - but Mr .Morris said they would be available to everyone and not just subscribers.

The adult pilot shows include Alpha House, about 4 senators who live together in a rented house in Washington DC and stars John Goodman, who starred recently in Oscar-winning film Argo.

"Bill Murray has got a cameo in Alpha House, looking a bit older, a little bit more bedraggled, but definitely Bill Murray," Mr Morris added.

Onion News Empire is set behind the scenes of the Onion News Network, a satirical daily news service, and "shows just how far journalists will go to stay at the top of their game", according to Amazon Studios.

It stars Arrested Development's Jeffrey Tambor as the "egomaniacal lead anchor".

Other pilot shows include Zombieland - based on the film of the same name - featuring four survivors attempting to outwit zombies, while cartoon comedy Dark Minions, written by Big Bang Theory's Kevin Sussman, is about two "slackers" working on an intergalactic warship.
The children's shows include animations Sara Solves It, where Sara and Sam solve maths-based mysteries, and Creative Galaxy, an interactive art adventure series.

"This isn't X Factor for some new titles where you get to vote and they're fairly gimmicky," Mr Morris said. "It has a unique position in the world in that it has a platform that's a pay platform, it has an entertainment platform."

He said that the "world of digital has been growing, driven in large part by the BBC iPlayer, from about 2008" and that he saw this move as the next stage.

"Mass-market digital consumption and streaming have come of age in the last few years," he added.

'Promotional tool' But Toby Syfret, TV analyst for Enders Analysis, was sceptical about the venture, describing it as a "gimmick" and said he did not think it would make much of a dent in the TV landscape.

"I think the success of this will have a huge amount to do with the publicity they can get for it."

Kevin Spacey's House of Cards was made and broadcast on Netflix Amazon and Lovefilm were able to put pilots to the public vote because "they are not TV channels with set budgets", he said, adding that "you cannot sustain a programming operation if you let viewers decide - you're losing control of the purse strings".

He also queried whether programme-makers would want the public vote to potentially leave them "committed to the most expensive thing which is least good".

"Programme makers may end up saying 'we'll go with it, but it's a bit expensive so we'll cut the budget' - and then you've done what the public's asked but it's been slashed by half," he added.

" Amazon's thinking that Netflix has done it this way [by broadcasting Kevin Spacey's House of Cards drama series] so we'll come at it from another way."

Earlier this year, the streaming TV and movie service Netflix made and broadcast House of Cards, and revealed plans to make at least 5 new shows a year.
YouTube, owned by Google, also recently launched its original channels initiative with 20 new channels coming from the UK.
Mr Morris said that the key thing that marked his venture out was that "the platform is open".
"Not everyone has the opportunity to go and pitch an idea to HBO in New York, not everyone can get on a plane to Cannes and pitch a script," he said.

"But there is now a vehicle whereby people are in a place that independent writers - whether they've got a track record or not - can put content through and it can be evaluated and brought to market. And that's the exciting thing about this."

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With a million downloads on BitTorrent in less than a day, the season premiere of Game of Thrones is breaking records on multiple fronts. Never before has there been a torrent with so many people sharing a file at the same time, more than 160,000 simultaneous peers. Data gathered by TorrentFreak further shows that Australia has the highest piracy rate of the popular download destinations, while London tops the list of pirate cities.

As expected, the new season premiere of Game of Thrones has generated quite a bit of activity on various BitTorrent sites.

Hundreds and thousands of downloaders went out to grab a copy of the show, breaking the record for the largest BitTorrent swarm ever in the process.

A few hours after the first torrent of the show was uploaded the OpenBitTorrent tracker reported that 163,088 people where sharing one single torrent. 110,303 were sharing a complete copy of that particular torrent while 52,786 were still downloading.

These are mind boggling numbers that we’ve never seen before.

Previously the record for the largest BitTorrent swarm belonged to the season premiere of the TV-show “Heroes” with 144,663 peers.


Counting all the different releases it’s estimated that the latest Game of Thrones episode has been downloaded over a million times already. Considering the above there is little doubt that Game of Thrones will once again be crowned the most downloaded TV-show of the year.


# Country % City  1 United States 12.9% London 4.3% 2 United Kingdom 11.5% Paris 3.2% 3 Australia 9.9% Sydney 3.0% 4 Canada 7.4% Melbourne 3.0% 5 France 4.4% Amsterdam 2.2% 6 The Netherlands 4.2% Athens 1.8% 7 Spain 3.2% Stockholm 1.6% 8 Sweden 3.0% Madrid 1.6% 9 Philippines 2.6% Perth 1.5% 10 Norway 2.5% Singapore 1.3%