Following an incredible April Fools joke, HBO has announced that Game of Thrones will return for Season 4
What is seemingly the norm with many television shows, movies and even games, in production during April, HBO performed a cruel April fools joke on fans of the Game of Thrones series. On April 1st, show creators David Benioff, Dan Weiss and George R.R. Martin made the following exciting announcement:
“Today is both a sad day and an exciting one for HBO’s Game of Thrones,” Benioff began. “Sad because we’ve all gotten to know Peter on set and love him dearly as a friend. We’ll miss him sorely. Exciting because we’re heading in an entirely new direction with the character of Tyrion Lannister for season 4.”
Weiss went on to explain the announcement further: “It was a unanimous decision between David, myself, Peter and George. We want to take Tyrion in a more comedic, farcical direction and everyone including Peter agreed that he just wasn’t the man for the job. I’ll let the other guys speak for themselves but for me the choice was as clear as a crystal crown. Warwick Davis will be our new Tyrion Lannister!”
This was of course, an April fools joke, and anyone who actually believed the decision or was upset by it, you need to start checking the dates of this information! The very next day, HBO confirmed the fourth season, and the previous days announcement was confirmed to be false. This comes as no surprise to fans of the show, as it has experienced phenomenal success so far, but it does allow us to breath a sigh of relief. The current season only covers half of one of the books, so we are guaranteed to see the rest of it with Season 4.
The season 3 premiere for Game of Thrones received 4.4 million viewers, and increased to 6.7 after two repeat airings, which marks a record for the series, and has also broke numerous illegal download records as well. In 2012 Game of Thrones was the most illegally download TV Show, and now the new episode had more than 160,000 people access the same torrent at the same time. Breaking the record of 144,663 set by the premiere of the show Heroes. London had the most downloads but it was most popular in good old Australia!
- Welsh 03/04/13
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