Game of Thrones begins....

[Josquius]

Next on the Game of Thrones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_30wzerP0M&feature=feedu

Underage lesbian group sex, child slaughter, midget abuse and more!

*tries to remember lesbian sex from the first book, fails, scratches head*

[Berkut]

Next on the Game of Thrones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_30wzerP0M&feature=feedu

Underage lesbian group sex, child slaughter, midget abuse and more!

*tries to remember lesbian sex from the first book, fails, scratches head*

Yeah, I think there was a scene where one of Daenys handmaidens gav her a little relief, but that was not book one, I don't think.

[Valmy]

Yeah, I think there was a scene where one of Daenys handmaidens gav her a little relief, but that was not book one, I don't think.

That was such a creepy scene in the book to.  But then most of the sex in this series is creepy.

[Ed Anger]

Yeah, I think there was a scene where one of Daenys handmaidens gav her a little relief, but that was not book one, I don't think.

That was such a creepy scene in the book to.  But then most of the sex in this series is creepy.

Sex as imagined by fat lonely guys.

[Habbaku]

He got married recently to what was, effectively, his common-law wife for 35 years.

[Ed Anger]

He got married recently to what was, effectively, his common-law wife for 35 years.

Thank you for ruining my jokes.

[HVC]

Watched it. A bit slow but to be expected for the first episode. The king being an actor from a crappy sitcom kept throwing me off. Plus boobies which are always good

[Habbaku]

He got married recently to what was, effectively, his common-law wife for 35 years.

Thank you for ruining my jokes.

[jimmy olsen]

Who are all these people? Man, to some one who didn't read the books the first show is thick.

[The Larch]

I am kinda wondering if people haven't been trained to expect more from TV these days, and it takes this kind of expenditure to get this kind of audience (outside of reality TV).

I dunno, network productions don't seem to have better values, but they get canceled if they can't get double that audience. Course HBO's getting paid twice. Make that three times(ads, subscribers and dvd sales).

HBO gets paid many more times besides that. It was reported a couple of weeks ago that before the show premiered it was already HBO's highest grossing series ever in terms of overseas sales, at 2'5 million $ per episode. The previous record belonged to The Sopranos, with a bit more than one million. And that was before the series premiered.

In a latest sign of international success, the premium pay network's newest show, Game of Thrones, premieres on Sunday, but has already become HBO's best-selling series abroad ever, fetching more than $2.5 million an episode, more than 50% above the international price tag for The Sopranos, the paper said.

"We have significantly accelerated our international thrust over the past few years," HBO CEO Bill Nelson told the Journal. "We have broken through at a much, much higher level than in the past, and have found that our programming not only crosses geographical boundaries but cultural ones as well."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hbo-top-1-billion-international-176907

And for illustrative and comparison purposes:



I'd say that the HBO executives in charge of the series will be rolling on dollars in Scrooge-like fashion for a few years.

[KRonn]

I'd say that the HBO executives in charge of the series will be rolling on dollars in Scrooge-like fashion for a few years.

Maybe even longer than that if Martin decides to hurriedly write a few more books than he's planned on.   

[Grey Fox]

Damn, John Adams was expensive.

[Razgovory]

I would have thought "The Pacific" would have been up there.

[The Larch]

I would have thought "The Pacific" would have been up there.

IIRC, The Pacific's budget was around 150 million $, and it had 10 episodes, so it'd come at roughly 15 millions per episode, near the top of the graph.

[Valmy]

Who are all these people? Man, to some one who didn't read the books the first show is thick.

Just get the basics of the plot at the beginning.  This is a long series you will learn who is important and who is not as time goes by.