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The Game of Thrones prequel series, unofficially known as The Long Night or Bloodmoon, is no longer moving forward at HBO. Here's why.

HBO cancels the Game of Thrones 'Long Night' prequel television series created by Jane Goldman and starring Naomi Watts in an unknown role.

Fabian Wagner clarifies his remarks about Game of Thrones’ Battle of Winterfell episode. Viewers complained about the cinematographer's dark visuals.

Melisandre always warned everyone that the night was dark and full of terrors in Game of Thrones – and Sunday night's episode proved just how right she was. "The Long Night"—the third episode in GoT's Season 8—brought the Night King's army of the undead down upon the Northern forces and Daenerys Targaryen's army. Before the battle began, though, a woman in a dark cloak—The Red Priestess herself —arrived at Winterfell. And Melisandre, played by actress Carice van Houten, was instrumental in helping the gang achieve victory. When Melisandre arrived at Winterfell at the start …

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Hopefully you've had a chance to catch up on the latest episode of HBO's Game of Thrones, because it's just about all anyone's been talking about since Sunday night. And with good reason. Not only did the super-sized episode have a lot of ground to cover, with a massive battle sequence at its core, it also had a record number of people tuning in to watch it, either live or mere hours after it aired. How many people, exactly? On the order of 17.8 million. THR has a breakdown of the superlatives for "The …

The break between George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones and David Benioff & Dan Weiss’ Game of Thrones has become increasingly clear as the show has left Martin’s books behind. Even if you aren’t familiar with all the lore and details Martin has packed into his novels, you can see that in Martin’s view, he’s rebelling against standard fantasy tropes. He doesn’t play nice, and one of the aspects that hooked viewers was how Game of Thrones could be unexpected. It could kill a main character in Ned Stark. It could kill heroic …

As expected, not everyone survived the battle at Winterfell in Game of Thrones. Season 8's Episode 3 – "The Long Night" – brought death over the gates of the Stark family ancestral home, and though the living fought valiantly, some of our favorites didn't make it. Spoiler alert! If you didn't see Sunday night's GoT, stop reading now and bookmark this link to come back to later. One of the most painful GoT deaths in the episode was Ser Jorah Mormont, played by Iain Glen. Jorah died defending his Khaleesi, Queen Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), on the battlefield, …

Well. folks, "The Long Night" has come to an end, and despite the fact that I went a full 26 minutes before realizing that my computer monitor just wasn't turned on, I thought this was a real mixed bag! I simply cannot sit here and tell you an episode of television in which one dragon eats another zombie dragon's face off in the sky is "bad." But I also find it hard to believe that building up a mysterious, evil ice-wizard as a series' unstoppable Big Bad only to have him go 0-1 in actual battles …

Spoilers ahead for last night's episode of Game of Thrones. There's a lot that went down in last night's Game of Thrones episode, the extra long, extra intense, and extra heroic "The Long Night." Some two dozen of our favorite characters stood side by side in a fight for survival, a literal battle between life and death. But while the battle itself took up the bulk of the episode, there was a lot going on in between the bloodshed and bodily reanimations. To that end, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss took a little extra time …

Game of Thrones may be ending this year, but more adventures in Westeros and beyond are right around the corner. With the massive success of the show, it’s no surprise HBO is eager to keep the brand going. A prequel series, rumored to be called The Long Night and set thousands of years in the past, is the first spin-off. It is also ramping up its production as we speak.