Quick Hits: Awards, interviews and more

Your weekly Game of Thrones news and notes round-up:

• Game of Thrones has garnered some more award nominations. This time from sci-fi/fantasy site Airlock Alpha’s Portal Awards. Thrones scored 7 nominations including Best Television Series.
• The Iron Throne will be touring Spain courtesy of Canal+. Go here for more info.
• Congrats to Peter Dinklage who is going to be a dad!
• We’re only a little over a week away from no more new episodes of Thrones to look forward to each week. HBO Watch writes about what to do when Game of Thrones ends.
• The Envelope looks at why epic fantasy and medieval series’ are becoming all the rage these days. Game of Thrones gets mentioned, of course, but also HBO confirms that Thrones will have a presence at the upcoming Comic Con in San Diego.
• Vote for Game of Thrones as Best Drama in the Tater Top Awards at E! Online.
• The HBO Shop just keeps on adding more and more Thrones merch. They have some new t-shirts, including character shirts and family tree shirts and…. a Frey shirt? Can’t imagine that is going to be a big seller.
• Emilia Clarke, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sean Bean and Mark Addy recently attended a screening of Game of Thrones at the Monte Carlo TV Festival. You can find photos of them looking all dapper and fashionable here.
• While at the Festival, Emilia Clarke and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau sat down with Digital Spy for some video interviews.
• Some more interviews, these of the print variety: Sophie Turner with TV Guide, Gethin Anthony with AfterElton, Sean Bean at Variety, Miltos Yerolemou at GameofThrones.hu.
• Don’t forget to check out our latest issue of The Pointy End, which features a “deleted scene” from episode eight.
• Lastly, we have created a new official Winter-Is-Coming.net Facebook page. Like the page to get the latest posts directly into your News Feed!

• Published on 06/12/2011 at 8:14 AM CDT
• Last updated on 10/20/2016 at 6:04 PM CDT