Hey Youtubers, it's Charlie so much awesome news HBO was the TCAs this past week.
They teased a whole bunch of really cool stuff that's coming down the road they're more episodes
coming than we originally thought, which is awesome this also news on the spinoff, that
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So whole bunch of news all of it is really good is like the stuff that you want to hear
the make you feel little bit better even though game of thrones is like slowly coming to an
end, so number five the HBO people were presenting all their new series for this year to the
television critics this past week, they always get a ton a game of thrones questions even
though they didn't bring any game of thrones stuff they revealed that the show has not
been formally renewed for season eight just because there still going back and forth on
what the final episode count is going to be meeting we could get more episodes next year
for season eight.
Right now this year season seven is capped at seven episodes, it sounds like a bummer,
but each of the episodes is going to be longer crazier and looking back at the previous seasons.
I don't really think of any of the older episodes is filler but more money and more action going
into fewer episodes sounds like a good thing right now season eight is supposed to be six
episodes, so when they say there could be more episodes I could turn into seven it could
turn into a just like a set number of hours that Dan and Dave wanted to tell and it's
probably going to be a while before they decide because they don't start filming again till
way later this year they'll probably have some more news about that when we get the
comic con number for the money is also a big reason for fewer episodes the HBO is happy
to spend it.
Each new season.
It gets more and more expensive to do game of thrones because a doing bigger battles
there doing more dragons so.
Just for example, this is totally not judge to break down some of the finances on game
of thrones during season six the episodes cost an average of about $10 million per episode
that's about $100 million for the season.
The battle of the Bastard's episode was way more than that.
So just for example a normal episode of an hour-long drama on a big network like a really
big show is closer to like three or $4 million per episode on a smaller cable network is
way less than that.
So HBO it just like shoveling money out to do episodes of game of thrones there totally
happy to spend is much as it takes to make it as crazy as possible but there's a limit
to that like they just can't spend 200 $250 million on a single season of TB they don't
get that much money from subscribers.
That's where HBO's money comes from.
Don't sell ads on their stuff they get money when people subscribe to HBO's channel, so
number three.
That's where you get to the spinoff one way to keep those costs under control is to start
a spinoff where you get to wipe the slate clean bring in a bunch of new actors that
don't cost as much and you can do a really awesome story and a vastly smaller price point.
So this past week, in the same breath when they were talking about doing more episodes
during season eight.
They were also asked about the spinoff they get asked about spinoffs every year and they
typically say the same thing you know, maybe were thinking about it were probably gonna
do a spinoff this year though they said that they would be stupid to not do a spinoff.
So if you're starting to worry that there might be a time when there is no game of thrones
on television.
That's probably not going to happen it will be a prequel but they haven't decided on what
that's going to be George R Martin is still finishing wins a winter which he says is going
to be done this year.
We'll talk about that eventually to, but he's been pointing them to all the best stuff to
do for a spinoff remember a spinoff would have to go for about seven season so it just
depends on what kind of material they want to mine and how much action they wanted to
be what kind of series.
They wanted to be.
So the big three pics right now are tales of dunk and Egg Aegon's conquest in the dance
of the dragons if you haven't read the books at 40 done videos about what the stories are
so I'll add some links at the end of this video, but HBO in general sounds like it wants
to keep the game of thrones creative team like the producers the people that righted
the people that actually make it like the actual people to work on a day-to-day together
or whatever the spinoff is going to be but last year Dan and Dave said that the main
series might be the end of their day-to-day involvement.
So even if they do bring in new show runners, it sounds like Dan and Dave would still stay
on his producers the basic take away is that the people that give you game of thrones would
essentially be the same people that will give you a spinoff just the behind-the-scenes some
things we get shuffled around a little and even though he still finishing a song of ice
and fire.
George R Martin would probably increase his role, especially at the initial stages just
to make sure that everything started off on the right foot so if you came late to game
of thrones what happened early on is is that George R Martin was heavily involved with
the first couple of seasons.
He wrote episodes each season.
But then as things got on.
Later he started to get pulled away by the book series trying to finish that.
So right now he isn't as involved with game of thrones on television as he used to be.
I would probably change with the spinoff in a couple years.
So number two.
What about the stories.
So I listed the three big pics but it really just depends on how much easier it gets to
do the CG dragons and really like any of the other CG elements.
They include usually special effects get better and cheaper each year.
So if you go all the way back to season one and watch Daenerys hatch dragons the CG looks
okay.
It still holds up relatively well but it was still kind of expensive at the time today
just a few years later, it's way easier way cheaper to do that but today there doing really
big Dragon.
So there still really expensive, but what they're doing today will be cheaper tomorrow
that's the big take away.
So it's not can be hard to do CG dragons in a couple years.
So dance the dragons or Aegon's conquest would be the most WTF action-packed stories for
them to adapt Aegon's conquest would be a little cheaper, just because there only three
dragons instead of a bunch of people fighting each other on Dragon back I can't even imagine
how expensive it would be to do regular Dragon Rider battles.
It will be the best thing ever.
But would probably crush HBO's budget.
So on the other side of that tales of dunk and Egg would be the cheapest because there
are no dragons they're just like a bunch of big crowd because their lot of tourneys a
lot of regular fighting on horseback is a really fun story it's kind of like a buddy
road trip story is not really a comedy but there is a lot of comedy imagine Brienne and
Podrick riding around that's kind of what tales of dunk and Egg would be like Scott
unfocused I didn't mean kosher to, so was a really fun story George
R Martin said that he's writing more for those characters in the future to but it doesn't
really have big red wedding level WTF twist like Aegon's conquest or dance of the dragons
most of you guys seem like you would rather see dance of the dragons than Aegon's conquest,
just because a lot of what Daenerys is doing in these final season is very similar to what
Aegon the conqueror did so in kind to be like doing the same story.
If they went back and did the conquest but the dance of the dragons has all the really
crazy stuff.
It's about a very different event with very different groups of characters.
But again all really solid picks.
What would probably happen is is that they wouldn't actually settle on what the spinoff
is going to be until after the final season of game of thrones the probably focus all
their energy on marketing season eight.
Next year and then as we get towards the end of that they'll announce what the next spinoff
is going to be develop that and then there might be like.
A year or two before they Premier that both the main series goes off the air in 2018.
That means it might be 2020, before we see the premier of the spinoff, but number one
when we actually going to get new footage of season seven got a little teaser at the
end of last year, which is sort of in keeping with their style like that like really small
stuff that they'll drop in December and then January the first trailer usually drops the,
because when they were filming season six it was like their normal filming schedule.
They had finished filming most of the episodes by the end of 2015, so they had all the footage
they needed to cut trailers this past year was different because winter has come to west
roast.
So they had to wait till later in the year to start filming.
Meaning that there a couple months behind.
So with the first real trailer usually dropped in January.
That means we might not get the first season seven trailer until February or March because
there's such a big delay this year like season seven might not premier till late in June
will probably try to do some extra cool stuff just to keep the fans happy market the series
just keep everybody calm down till the premier.
So as of right now there still filming episodes but they films most of the series.
They have is much footage is they need to cut a trailer.
So it will probably be a little while but they have a new series called the young Pope
this premiering later this month.
They might use that to promote some game of thrones stuff, so we might get some more game
of thrones teasers while that series is on the air, but as for the actual footage last
year was all about teasing Jon Snow's return Daenerys breaking the wheel of slavers Bay
this year.
It's all about Daenerys's conquest in the war for the Dawn so expect whatever teasers
they drop to hype up Daenerys versus Cersei and Jon Snow versus the nights king, so everyone's
converging before a big season-long battle with the white walkers next year.
So this is all about the characters coming together clashing sort of like a war of the
five kings only now it's much more centralized will still be doing weekly bonus videos until
the season gets here.
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thrones video new Sherlock finale posting tonight than a whole bunch of comic book stuff
posting on Monday while you guys wait for that to post you can click here for that dance
of the dragons video and you can click here for the Aegon the conqueror video thank you
so much watching everybody thought five I'll see you guys tonight!