Game of Thrones is gone for another year. Jon Snow is maybe gone forever. Or maybe we know nothing.
Despite the desperate anxiety of having to wait a whole 12 months before we get any answers, there are some bright lights ahead.
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Perhaps most exciting is that everyone’s favorite bearded creep George R.R. Martin (author of the book series A Song of Ice and Fire, upon which the series is based) has said that he hopes to release the next book, titled The Winds of Winter, before the sixth TV season drops. So, we, in fact, do not have to wait a whole year for more GoT. If Martin and his team are as industrious as I think they are, we probably only have to wait until Christmas.
If you haven’t read the books yet, now would be an excellent time to start. As Martin prepares to release the next installment, he has announced he will not pen a single episode of the sixth season. Showrunners David Benioff, D.B. Weiss and Bryan Cogman will be doing that legwork. As such, the storylines of the book series and the TV series may start to diverge even more so than they already have. Martin has told Benioff et al. how the story will end, but not necessarily all details on how to get there. It’s like Choose Your Own Adventure, but with more sex and death.
If you’re not interested in investing in what is, to be fair, an exhaustive adventure that makes the complex politics, violence and explicit sexuality of the TV show seem tame, you’re still in luck. Next Sunday, June 21 is the biggest premiere night of the summer. There are seven new or revived series to choose from, with something for nearly every taste. Choose Your Own Adventure, indeed!
BattleBots (ABC, 8 p.m.)
ABC aims to bring summer popcorn fun to the small screen with the six-episode return of BattleBots, a series that ran on Comedy Central for five seasons and was cancelled in 2002. It’s a battle of robot versus robot, featuring stories of the pursuit of technical greatness. No word if Bill Nye will return as the “technical expert.” He’s busy these days, but is still showing up here and there on TV.
Perhaps most exciting is that everyone’s favorite bearded creep George R.R. Martin (author of the book series A Song of Ice and Fire, upon which the series is based) has said that he hopes to release the next book, titled The Winds of Winter, before the sixth TV season drops. So, we, in fact, do not have to wait a whole year for more GoT. If Martin and his team are as industrious as I think they are, we probably only have to wait until Christmas.
If you haven’t read the books yet, now would be an excellent time to start. As Martin prepares to release the next installment, he has announced he will not pen a single episode of the sixth season. Showrunners David Benioff, D.B. Weiss and Bryan Cogman will be doing that legwork. As such, the storylines of the book series and the TV series may start to diverge even more so than they already have. Martin has told Benioff et al. how the story will end, but not necessarily all details on how to get there. It’s like Choose Your Own Adventure, but with more sex and death.
If you’re not interested in investing in what is, to be fair, an exhaustive adventure that makes the complex politics, violence and explicit sexuality of the TV show seem tame, you’re still in luck. Next Sunday, June 21 is the biggest premiere night of the summer. There are seven new or revived series to choose from, with something for nearly every taste. Choose Your Own Adventure, indeed!
BattleBots (ABC, 8 p.m.)
ABC aims to bring summer popcorn fun to the small screen with the six-episode return of BattleBots, a series that ran on Comedy Central for five seasons and was cancelled in 2002. It’s a battle of robot versus robot, featuring stories of the pursuit of technical greatness. No word if Bill Nye will return as the “technical expert.” He’s busy these days, but is still showing up here and there on TV.
