[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”16458″ img_size=”640×251″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]We have a lot of HBO news for you, so settle in because we’re going to go through this. Recently, the programming president for HBO Casey Bloys spoke with IndieWire and revealed some of their plans for the future of their programming.
GAME OF THRONES
We’re all waiting anxiously for the final season of Game of Thrones to come out, which will premiere on April 14th. Apparently, HBO has commissioned five spinoff series, but has only ordered one pilot so far. This is Jane Goldman and George R.R. Martin’s untitled prequel series. While we know some of the prequel series, this is news to me that the network wants five spinoffs. That’s ambitious and it’ll be interesting to see how and if it will be pulled off. Either way, Bloys says he’s not in a rush, wanting to get the prequel off the ground first.
“But I’m not looking to make HBO just the home of ‘Game of Thrones’ prequels, or sequels, or anything like that,” Bloys said. “I think it’s a very exciting and rich world that we’re lucky enough to have, but I’m not looking to overdo it. I’m not looking to overpopulate. Only if it is really well done and interesting and exciting [will we proceed with another spinoff].”
TRUE DETECTIVE
Fans of this show will be happy to know that despite an unsuccessful second season, True Detective has done will in Nic Pizzolatto’s third season and apparently a fourth season may be on the horizon.
Bloys commented:
“Nic, I think, is percolating ideas, and I think we’ll approach it the same way we did Season 3: If he has an idea he’s excited about and wants to write, we’re open to that, but I’m not going to rush him. I’m not going to say, ‘We need something in January 2020, so hurry up,’ because I don’t think you get a writer’s best work when doing that. So I think right now, Nic is enjoying the response to the show — that it’s been well received — and then we’ll take his lead.”
He continued:
“In between Season 2 and Season 3, we had conversations about that,” Bloys said. “But honestly, I feel it’s so much Nic’s voice. Could you [bring in another writer]? Maybe. But it feels to me that if Nic has something he wants to do that’s probably the way to go. And all of this is theoretical, because he’s percolating his ideas.”
HBO Now
After being asked if Bloys planned on having HBO Now mimic other streaming services that release their full seasons at once or who release their content exclusively on digital, Bloys had a simple answer for both: “no”.
“I believe that the way we do it, to me and to our creators, is the best of both worlds. The thing that’s nice about a weekly release is that you’re in the cultural conversation for eight or 10 weeks. You have an entire industry of people who write about and critique television, and enjoy doing it. You engage with your fans on a weekly basis.”
CONFEDERATE
As the last topic, and perhaps the most controversial; the subject of the show Confederate came up. This series was brought about by Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and it immediately was met with backlash. The reason being that the plotline of the series was containing a story where the North lost the Civil War and slavery actually still exists even in modern-day America. Even though Bloys has no updates on the show, which was greenlit back in 2017, he explains that they are still planning on making the show.
“What we’re dealing with ‘Confederate’ is everyone is very busy,” Bloys said. “I believe Nichelle has her Apple show [‘Are You Sleeping,’ starring Octavia Spencer], Malcolm had an Amazon show [‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’], but I don’t know what he’s doing on that. Dan and Dave are finishing up ‘Game of Thrones’ and then they’re going in to do the ‘Star Wars’ movies. So when they come back to us and say, ‘We’re ready,’ we’re here. But they’re figuring out all their other projects.”
What do you guys think of this HBO news? Let us know!
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