“Well, that was like a year ago for me” -Peter Dinklage, who plays Tyrion Lannister, when asked whether he was excited for the final episode of Game of Thrones’ third season.The Emmy winning actor went on to say “I don’t watch the show… I don’t have HBO” when prompted to give his opinion on the Red Wedding scene from “The Rains of Castamere”.

The news that Peter Dinklage doesn’t watch Game of Thrones isn’t all together surprising considering plenty of actors don’t watch their completed works.  On the other hand, this is an off hand comment, not from an interview, so Dinklage could simply be favoring brevity or sarcasm over the truth.  However, if Dinklage doesn’t watch simply because he doesn’t have HBO, I can only say that many people have managed to circumvent that particular obstacle.  Of course I doubt he would actually want or need to pirate his own show, unlike a record breaking number of viewers did last sunday.  A Lannister always pays his cable after all.

(via blastr, TMZ)
Previously in Game of Thrones

• Why HBO Greenlit Game of Thrones
• Game of Thrones Recap: Mhysa
• Game of Thrones Cosplay Piano

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The Writers Guild of America, who know a thing or two about writing, have compiled a list of the 101 “Best Written TV Series of All Time.” Did your favorites make the cut? 

Cheeky, cheeky, Netflix, putting one of your own original series here. The day may come when we see HBO shows available to stream on Netflix. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends, and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day.

Not now that more Americans can watch Netflix than HBO.

Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines is a meditation on the history of the female hero in modern American culture told through the changing interpretation and representation of the character of Wonder Woman, and if that doesn’t already sucker you in to watching it, then maybe the fact that it’s being lauded from all corners, including the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in the Media, will.

It’s an independent documentary film, so screenings in your area might have been thin on the ground. The good news is the movie has become part of PBS’ Indepedent Lens series, which runs a new independent film every Monday night. Wonder Women! airs tonight at 10 pm, though you probably want to check your local PBS listings. Afterwards, if you just can’t get enough of discussion about female characters and gender representation in media, you might want to check out this panel discussion that followed a screening of the film in Los Angeles a few weeks ago. It included folks from the Geena Davis Institute, the LA Times, and our contributing writer Zoe Chevat. An upcoming Wonder Women! panel in New York will feature yours truly, so stay tuned for info on that as well!

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Come with me, into a world of infinite possibilities. No, not the genre of science fiction. No, not the actual future lineup of the Syfy channel. This is just the projects that Syfy has announced it is putting into development, which means that they’ve got writers and producers and maybe directors and if everything miraculously works out, the channel might some day do something as awesome as Battlestar Galactica ever again.

That’s what I mean by infinite possibilities.

The Federal Communications Commission wants a piece of our minds. I suggest you keep your use of profanity to the minimum.

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I’m about to say something that will blow your mind. You ready? A lot of people nowadays don’t have cable. And yet they still watch TV shows! I know, I know. I’ll give you a second to recover from the shock. Remember to breathe.

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Is this the real post? Is this just fantasy?

(via The High Definite.)