HBO put the show into development in 2007 and ordered a pilot in late 2008. The original Game of Thrones pilot was shot in 2009, on a budget of at least $5 million and perhaps as much as $10 ...

A pilot episode represents the very first opportunity for a show to attract its audience; some have accomplished this with ...

Game of what? Apparently there’s some TV show called Game of Thrones which isn’t a chair-based quiz show at all, but a fantasy epic with swords and dragons and the like. The author of the ...