"""Game of Thrones"" was the most-pirated TV series in 2016. Game of Thrones (season 6) The sixth season of the fantasy drama television series ""Game of Thrones"" premiered on HBO on April 24, 2016, and concluded on June 26, 2016. It consists of ten episodes, each of approximately 50–60 minutes long, largely of original content not found in George R. R. Martin's ""A Song of Ice and Fire"" series. Some story elements were derived from the novels and from information Martin revealed to the show-runners. The series was adapted for television by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. HBO ordered"
"7.1 and Dolby Atmos audio options. ""Game of Thrones"" has been widely pirated, primarily outside the U.S. According to the file-sharing news website TorrentFreak, ""Game of Thrones"" has been the most pirated TV series since 2012, which means it has held the record for six years in a row. Illegal downloads increased to about seven million in the first quarter of 2015, up 45 percent from 2014. An unnamed episode was downloaded about 4,280,000 times through public BitTorrent trackers in 2012, roughly equal to its number of broadcast viewers. Piracy rates were particularly high in Australia, and U.S. Ambassador to"
"leads to more penetration, more paying subs and more health for HBO."" The show is the most infringed TV show, and ""the show’s first season was the best-selling TV DVD of 2012. In June 2011, Tranz-Send Broadcasting Network filed a U.S. District Court lawsuit against BitTorrent Inc. for infringing a patent applied for in April 1999. Legal issues with BitTorrent The use of the BitTorrent protocol for sharing of copyrighted content generated a variety of novel legal issues. While the technology and related platforms are legal in many jurisdictions, law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies are attempting to address this avenue"
"as a digital download on the iTunes store, in Australia only, in parallel to the U.S. premiere. However, on May 14, 2013, Foxtel blocked the Australian iTunes store from making the episodes available soon after they screened in the U.S. Season 3 was reported to be the most infringed TV show via torrents during spring 2013, estimated to be 5.2 million downloads via BitTorrent. The third season of ""Game of Thrones"" was the most-pirated TV series in 2013. Game of Thrones (season 3) The third season of the fantasy drama television series ""Game of Thrones"" premiered in the United States"
"a week of the U.S. premiere (including HBO Go). In 2015, the fifth season was simulcast to 170 countries and to HBO Now users. On April 11, the day before the season premiere, screener copies of the first four episodes of the fifth season leaked to a number of file-sharing websites. Within a day of the leak, the files were downloaded over 800,000 times; in one week the illegal downloads reached 32 million, with the season-five premiere alone (""The Wars to Come"") pirated 13 million times. The season-five finale (""Mother's Mercy"") was the most simultaneously shared file in the history"
"the longstanding brotherhood charged with defending the realm against the ancient threats of the fierce peoples and legendary creatures that lie far north, and an impending winter that threatens the realm. ""Game of Thrones"" has attracted record viewership on HBO and has a broad, active, international fan base. It has been acclaimed by critics, particularly for its acting, complex characters, story, scope, and production values, although its frequent use of nudity and violence (including sexual violence) has been criticized. The series has received 47 Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series in 2015, 2016, and 2018, more than any other"
"costumes, settings and scene changes."" By April 16, episodes for the series had been pirated by 2.1 million individual users worldwide, according to Excipio, a piracy tracking firm, surpassed in that timeframe only by ""Game of Thrones"". The biggest countries for piracy were Brazil (190,274 torrent downloaders), India (149,316), the U.S. (144,351), the UK (119,891), France (105,473) and Australia (101,025). Except for India, Netflix was available in each of those countries at the time. The season was enhanced to be available in high dynamic range after its initial release by post-production vendor Deluxe. At the October 2014 New York Comic"
"called ""Game of Thrones"" the most pirated television program. Beginning on January 23, 2015, the last two episodes of season four were shown in 205 IMAX theaters across the United States; ""Game of Thrones"" is the first TV series shown in this format. The show earned $686,000 at the box office on its opening day and $1.5 million during its opening weekend; the week-long release grossed $1,896,092. ""Game of Thrones"" was highly anticipated by fans before its premiere, and has become a critical and commercial success. According to ""The Guardian"", by 2014 it was ""the biggest drama"" and ""the most"
"nominated in the Outstanding Miniseries category but the Academy ruled that the nomination was not valid a few days later and later allowed the program to compete in the Outstanding Drama Series category. Since 2000, every single winner has been a serial drama: ""The West Wing"" (2000–2003), ""The Sopranos"" (2004, 2007), ""Lost"" (2005), ""24"" (2006), ""Mad Men"" (2008–2011), ""Homeland"" (2012), ""Breaking Bad"" (2013–2014), ""Game of Thrones"" (2015–2016, 2018), and ""The Handmaid's Tale"" (2017). Since the advent of ""Hill Street Blues"" in 1981, every winner has had some serialized arcs with the exception of ""Law & Order"". The majority of these"
"Drama: ""The West Wing"" (2000–2003), ""The Sopranos"" (2004, 2007), ""Lost"" (2005), ""24"" (2006), ""Mad Men"" (2008–2011), ""Homeland"" (2012), ""Breaking Bad"" (2013–2014), ""Game of Thrones"" (2015-2016), and ""The Handmaid's Tale"" (2017). In terms of DVD sales, however, strongly serialized shows often perform better than shows which are strongly procedural. ""24"" (Season 6), ""Lost"" (Season 4), ""Heroes"" (Season 2), ""True Blood"" and even ratings minnow ""Battlestar Galactica"" (Season 4.0) sell significantly more units than hit procedurals such as """" (Season 6), ""NCIS"" (Season 3, Season 5), """" (Season 4, Season 5) and ""Criminal Minds"" (Season 2, Season 3). Serialized shows tend to"
"it. Though Martin had previously stated that the HBO version of the Iron Throne did not match his idea of how it should appear ideally, in 2013 he called its design ""terrific"" and claimed to own all of the merchandised replicas. He added: Of the feasibility of recreating the throne as depicted in ""The World of Ice & Fire"", Martin said in October 2014: The image of Sean Bean as Ned Stark sitting in the Iron Throne is featured on the covers of the 2011 Season 1 DVD and Blu-ray Disc sets, released in March 2012. HBO has licensed the"
"the release date of his new book, ""Fire & Blood"", dealing with the history of House Targaryen, which was released on November 20, 2018. HBO Productions purchased the television rights for the ""A Song of Ice and Fire"" series in 2007 and began airing the fantasy series on their US premium cable channel on April 17, 2011. Titled ""Game of Thrones"", it ran weekly for ten episodes, each approximately an hour long. Although busy completing ""A Dance With Dragons"" and other projects, George R. R. Martin was heavily involved in the production of the television series adaptation of his books."
"was leaked online from Star India, one of HBO's international network partners. Four suspects were arrested over the leak in Mumbai. Three of them were current employees of Prime Focus Technologies, an independent company that handles Star India's data, while one was a former employee. The Spoils of War (Game of Thrones) ""The Spoils of War"" is the fourth episode of the seventh season of HBO's fantasy television series ""Game of Thrones"", and the 64th overall. It was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Matt Shakman. At Dragonstone, Daenerys Targaryen and Jon Snow"
"Game of Thrones (season 2) The second season of the fantasy drama television series ""Game of Thrones"" premiered in the United States on HBO on April 1, 2012, and concluded on June 3, 2012. It was broadcast on Sunday at 9:00 pm in the United States, consisting of 10 episodes, each running approximately 50–60 minutes. The season mostly covers the events of ""A Clash of Kings"", the second novel of the ""A Song of Ice and Fire"" series by George R. R. Martin, adapted for television by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. HBO ordered the second season on April"
"The previous year, ""Arya"" was the fastest-rising girl's name in the U.S. after it jumped in popularity from 711th to 413th place. , about 58 percent of series viewers were male and 42 percent female, and the average male viewer was 41 years old. According to SBS Broadcasting Group marketing director Helen Kellie, ""Game of Thrones"" has a high fan-engagement rate; 5.5 percent of the series' 2.9 million Facebook fans talked online about the series in 2012, compared to 1.8 percent of the more than ten million fans of ""True Blood"" (HBO's other fantasy series). Vulture.com cited Westeros.org and WinterIsComing.net"
"crucial for the network, especially after the past mixed reception of ""Carnivàle"" and ""K-Street"". In July 2005, James Hibberd of ""Television Week"" wrote that ""Rome"" was viewed ""as the network's best shot for adding another literate, must-see drama to its schedule"". Writing for the same publication, Tom Shales said that HBO ""has made such a fuss over ""Rome,"" and the network itself has put such painful pressure on the show (and its producers) to make a hefty impact, that it'll be scorned like a leper if it fails to make a truly gigantic splash."" ""The Stolen Eagle"" was the first"
"poll of the top 100 teen novels, which asked voters to choose their favorite young adult books. On August 17, 2012, Amazon announced ""The Hunger Games"" trilogy as its top seller, surpassing the record previously held by the ""Harry Potter"" series. , the trilogy has sold more than 65 million copies in the U.S. alone (more than 28 million copies of ""The Hunger Games"", more than 19 million copies of ""Catching Fire"", and more than 18 million copies of ""Mockingjay""). ""The Hunger Games"" trilogy has been sold into 56 territories in 51 languages to date. ""The Hunger Games"" trilogy takes"
"Under"" and in 2002 ""The Wire"", which, although not surpassing ""The Sopranos"" in viewership success, matched its critical acclaim and further cemented HBO's reputation as a network that produced quality programming. HBO experienced another success among viewers in 2008, with the debut of ""True Blood"", a vampire drama based on a series of gothic novels by Charlaine Harris. The network saw three more hit series in the 2010s with ""Game of Thrones"", based on George R. R. Martin's fantasy novel series ""A Song of Ice and Fire"", which earned both critical and viewer praise; ""Girls"", a comedy series created by"
"August 4, 2017, it was reported that, two days before its original broadcast, the fourth episode of the season was leaked online from Star India, one of HBO's international network partners. The leaked copy has the ""for internal viewing only"" watermark. On July 31, 2017, due to a security breach, HBO was the victim of 1.5 terabytes of stolen data. However, ""this was not related to this episode leak"", according to ""The Verge"". On August 16, 2017, four days before its intended release, it was reported that HBO Spain and HBO Nordic accidentally allowed the sixth episode of the series"
"earned $686,000 in its opening day at the box office and $1.5 million during its opening weekend. The one-week release grossed $1,896,092. The fourth season of ""Game of Thrones"" was the most-pirated TV series in 2014. Game of Thrones (season 4) The fourth season of the fantasy drama television series ""Game of Thrones"" premiered in the United States on HBO on April 6, 2014, and concluded on June 15, 2014. It was broadcast on Sunday at 9:00 pm in the United States, consisting of 10 episodes, each running approximately 50–60 minutes. The season is adapted primarily from the second half"
"George R. R. Martin George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948), also known as GRRM, is an American novelist and short story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known for his series of epic fantasy novels, ""A Song of Ice and Fire"", which was adapted into the HBO series ""Game of Thrones"" (2011–present). In 2005, Lev Grossman of ""Time"" called Martin ""the American Tolkien"", and in 2011, he was included on the annual ""Time"" 100 list of the most influential people in the world. George Raymond"
"Award. According to Jordan's French publisher, as of 2017, the series has sold over 80 million copies worldwide, and is the best selling epic fantasy series since ""The Lord of the Rings"". Its popularity has spawned an eponymous video game, roleplaying game, and soundtrack album. On April 20, 2017, it was announced that Sony Pictures will adapt the series for television and on October 2, 2018, Amazon ordered the series with Sony as a co-producer. The series is set in an unnamed world that, due to the cyclical nature of time as depicted in the series, is simultaneously the distant"
"(news and discussion forums), ToweroftheHand.com (which organizes communal readings of the novels) and Podcastoficeandfire.com as fan sites dedicated to the TV and novel series; and podcasts cover ""Game of Thrones"". ""Game of Thrones"" has won numerous of awards since it debuted as a series, including 47 Primetime Emmy Awards, 5 Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Peabody Award. It holds the Emmy-award record for a scripted television series, ahead of ""Frasier"" (which received 37). In 2013 the Writers Guild of America listed ""Game of Thrones"" as the 40th ""best written"" series in television history. In 2015 ""The Hollywood Reporter"" placed"
"trust journalists. HBO Films produced a film adaptation of ""Game Change"" directed by Jay Roach. The film, which focuses primarily on the third part of the book, premiered on March 10, 2012. The film received numerous award nominations, and won four Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries for Julianne Moore, who portrayed Sarah Palin. In light of recent sexual harassment charges brought by six women against Halperin, Penguin has now canceled a 2016 version of his book and HBO has dropped its miniseries project based on the book as well. Game Change Game Change: Obama"
"18 million different IP addresses downloaded the leaked episodes, totaling 32 million downloads during the first week. The fifth season of ""Game of Thrones"" was the most-pirated TV series in 2015. Game of Thrones (season 5) The fifth season of the fantasy drama television series ""Game of Thrones"" premiered on HBO on April 12, and concluded on June 14, 2015. It was broadcast on Sunday at 9:00 pm in the United States, consisting of 10 episodes, each running approximately 50–60 minutes. The season primarily adapts material from ""A Feast for Crows"" and ""A Dance with Dragons"", the fourth and fifth"
"in HBO, ""Mhysa"" was seen by an estimated 5.4 million household viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. It marked a year-to-year increase in viewership of 28 percent compared to the second season finale, ""Valar Morghulis"", which was seen by 4.2 million. The second broadcast of the ""Mhysa"" during the night was viewed by 900,000 viewers, bringing its total viewership for to 6.30 million. According to analysts, the success of the episode significantly helped ""Game of Thrones"" to surpass ""True Blood"" as the second most-watched series on HBO, after ""The Sopranos"". In the United Kingdom, the episode was viewed by 1.154"
"HBO programming and a first-look deal on all co-productions. In January 2016, Sky expanded the portfolio shown on Atlantic, after purchasing exclusive rights to Showtime programming. The following is a list of the ten most watched programmes on Sky Atlantic (all of them being episodes of ""Game of Thrones""), based on Live +7 data supplied by BARB up to 28 August 2017. The number of viewers does not include repeats or Irish ratings. Additionally, all of these episodes were the most viewed programme of the week on non-terrestrial television in the UK, with the exception of ""Book of the Stranger"""
"Hugo for ""Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form"", at Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention. Martin took home one of the three Hugo Award trophies awarded in that collaborative category, the other two going to ""Game of Thrones"" show-runners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. The second season, based on the second ""A Song of Ice and Fire"" novel ""A Clash of Kings"", began airing on HBO in the US on April 1, 2012. The second season was nominated for 12 Emmy Awards, including another Supporting Actor nomination for Dinklage. It went on to win six of those Emmys"
"that happened to be at hand. Following media reports in June 2012, HBO apologized for this shot, which their statement described as ""unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste."" The statement also said that the shot would be edited for any future home video production and TV broadcasts. HBO removed the episode from digital download services until the scene was edited. In the edited scene, the head bears no resemblance to Bush. ""Fire and Blood"" was first aired on HBO in the U.S. and Canada on June 19, 2011. The episode was the most watched episode of the season and"
"in the pilot, playing a character described as ""a charismatic socialite hiding a dark secret."" Game of Thrones Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It is an adaptation of ""A Song of Ice and Fire"", George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, the first of which is ""A Game of Thrones"". It is filmed in Belfast and elsewhere in Northern Ireland, Canada, Croatia, Iceland, Malta, Morocco, Scotland, Spain, and the United States. The series premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011, and its"
"Game of Thrones Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It is an adaptation of ""A Song of Ice and Fire"", George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, the first of which is ""A Game of Thrones"". It is filmed in Belfast and elsewhere in Northern Ireland, Canada, Croatia, Iceland, Malta, Morocco, Scotland, Spain, and the United States. The series premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011, and its seventh season ended on August 27, 2017. The series will conclude with its eighth season"
"as the strong fanbase of its original novel. The translated version of the book (""To the Sky Kingdom"") experienced a surge in sales on website Amazon. The popularity of the series has led to the soundtrack, ""Bracing the Chill"" to become one of the most covered songs in 2017. The source novel ""Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms"" (English version ""To the Sky Kingdom"") was suspected to be plagiarized from various sources. The allegation was that the author plagiarised the main characters, story organisation and many important details from a Chinese gay love novel tiled 桃花债 (the"
"Lang was inspired by ""Game of Thrones"". In March 2012, Wiley-Blackwell published ""Game of Thrones and Philosophy: Logic Cuts Deeper than the Sword"" (). This entry in Blackwell's ""Pop Culture and Philosophy"" series, edited by Henry Jacoby and William Irwin, aims to highlight and discuss philosophical issues raised by the show and its source material. In 2013, ""Game of Thrones"" was notably parodied on the cover of ""Mad"" on April 30, as well as by a web series, ""School of Thrones"", which set the story in a high school whose students vie for the title of prom king and queen."