MultiChoice and M-Net are giving DStv Compact and Extra customers the chance this weekend to join in the binge fun on M-Net Binge on DStv channel 900.\u00a0Winning HBO Series\u00a0Game of Thrones\u00a0season 6 will air on the channel this weekend,\u00a0just a few weeks before the new season starts on Monday 17 July.<\/p>\n
Game of Thrones\u00a0Season 6 episodes 1-5 will air this weekend, Saturday 24 June from 21:30 until 01:23,\u00a0followed by episodes 6-10 on Sunday 25 June from 21:30 until 01:26.<\/p>\n
DStv Compact and Extra customers can get a preview of the global phenomenon that is Game of Thrones before the premiere of the\u00a0penultimate\u00a0season, to entice them to upgrade to Premium when the new\u00a0season starts.\u00a0Game of Thrones\u00a0season 7 starts on M-Net 101\u00a0on\u00a0Monday 17 July at 2017 at 03:00 (Express from the US) and 21:30 (Prime Time).<\/p>\n
Yesterday, HBO released another breath-taking social media campaign for season 7. The social media campaign\u00a0included the anticipated second trailer, followed by the Twitter Emoji Engine which read: Character Posters are here. Tweet @GameofThrones using #WinterIsHere and an emoji to unlock the 12 #GoTS7 character posters the last was Character Art.<\/p>\n
For this weekend\u2019s season 6 broadcast M-Net Binge channel 900 will be using the following hashtags #GoTS6 #GoTNightVigil<\/p>\n
Get to know more about Game of Thrones, visitm-net.dstv.com\/show\/game-of-thrones<\/a> or mnet.tv<\/a>. \u00a0Follow\u00a0M-Net on Twitter @MNet and Facebook\u00a0www.facebook.com\/MNet<\/a><\/p>\n Isaac Hempstead Wright Q: Where do we find Bran as we begin this season?<\/strong><\/p>\n IHW: In the first episode we find Bran in a bit of a predicament. He\u2019s lost Hodor who was basically his legs for the past six seasons. We\u2019ve lost his direwolf, who has got a very deep connection with Bran and is practically a part of him as well as also being quite a valuable protection asset. Coldhands has also left him [Benjen Stark], who came and saved the day last time. So it\u2019s now just him and Meera at the foot of the Wall.<\/em><\/p>\n Q: Is he even Bran anymore?<\/strong><\/p>\n IHW: Not really. On top of all that he has now got this huge responsibility upon his shoulders of being the Three-eyed Raven. He\u2019s no longer Bran Stark. He remembers what it was like to be Bran Stark, but then he remembers everything that\u2019s ever happened in the universe ever. He\u2019s got all this knowledge about Jon Snow and all the knowledge about the origin of the White Walkers – which may come in handy for defeating them. It all means that Bran is a really, really valuable asset for Westeros right now. He needs to make sure this information gets to the right people in time. As such, at the start of season seven Bran is on a mission to get to the right place and save the day.<\/em><\/p>\n Q: Crucially he is one of the few who knows what the enemy in the Great War is\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n IHW: Yes, in fact Bran more than anyone, because he is now basically the arch enemy of the Night\u2019s King. They are sworn enemies from the first day of time, the Three-eyed Raven and the Night\u2019s King. So Bran knows better than anyone I think the terror and fear they should all be feeling with this threat looming over them.<\/em><\/p>\n Q: What\u2019s it been like playing a character who began as a boy but is now barely human?<\/strong><\/p>\n IHW: It was tricky to work out how exactly we would play him. It was clear that he needed to have this kind of emotionless, soulless, slightly mysterious aura to him, but we didn\u2019t want it to be really dull and monotone. So it was trying to capture the fact that there was this massively interesting spark within him of basically knowing everything ever. At the same time the practical effects on the human mind that it would have were huge. Basically, David and Dan said read the \u2018Watchmen\u2019 comics: it\u2019s like Dr Manhattan. When I was playing him instead of just focussing on the scene, I\u2019d be listening to what the other characters were saying but at the same time trying to rush through millions of things that had happened in past scenes and thinking of a moment in an episode in season two – because that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s going through Bran\u2019s head. He\u2019s got this whirlwind of information spinning around the whole time – \u2018Oh that happened, that happened, that happened\u2019. It\u2019s like he\u2019s not really in any fixed time.<\/em><\/p>\n Aidan Gillen Q: Where do we find Littlefinger as we begin this season?<\/strong><\/p>\n AG: When we first catch up with Littlefinger it\u2019s almost like a direct push from when we last saw him in Season Six. Then, he was standing against the wall in the Great Hall in Winterfell, in the shadows. For his first scene in Season Seven, he is in the same room so I thought I would stand in exactly the same place, at exactly the same angle – that could be interesting. We left him wondering what he\u2019s up to and we take up asking what he\u2019s up to now? Obviously he\u2019s working some of his magic on the power structure at Winterfell. It is now under the command of Jon.<\/em><\/p>\n You saw through Season 6 and maybe even from the end of Season 5 that Littlefinger been trying to sow some seeds of doubt with Sansa. Doubts about her brother\u2019s validity as a leader, in fact doubts about his validity as a brother at all. How much of a brother is he really, you know, biologically? How much credit did you, Sansa, really get for saving him down at the Battle of the Bastards? Don\u2019t you deserve a little more? That\u2019s Littlefinger\u2019s thing – he\u2019ll push people. He\u2019ll nudge people in a certain direction but then they don\u2019t always take it. And Sansa doesn\u2019t always take the bait because she\u2019s getting clever.<\/em><\/p>\n Q: Why does he do it? Is it for power, for fun?<\/strong><\/p>\n AG: For the fun would be a correct answer. It\u2019s not just about the result; it\u2019s about the thrill of manipulating on that scale. The danger of it: even though his plans are extremely well thought through they could go wrong easily at any point and that would be end of story. But if you don\u2019t take major risks you\u2019re not going to get major results. For him it is about the fun of it, the game of it – and you want to be seen having fun. That makes the character even more interesting to look at. If it\u2019s just all devious and nasty, people will lose interest I think. So I\u2019ve always tried to have a bit of fun with it and show a bit of a playful side.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Q: Do fans boo and hiss when they meet you?<\/strong><\/p>\n AG: I don\u2019t get booed and hissed that much. I was greeted very cordially by a group of something like 12 students off a train in Manchester the other day. They were like, \u2018Littlefinger!\u2019 It was as if they\u2019d met their favourite uncle just stepping off the train with sweets. I think some people are confused. They say to me, \u2018Hey you know, your character confuses me because\u2026 I like you.\u2019 And that\u2019s what you want in a villainous role I guess. It\u2019s important to show that this is somebody who can get away with things, precisely because people do find him trustworthy in some way or attractive. Without that it just wouldn\u2019t work. And his plans are so well laid, they go so far back you know – there\u2019s a certain glee watching them unfold.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MultiChoice and M-Net are giving DStv Compact and Extra customers the chance this weekend to join in the binge fun on M-Net Binge on DStv channel 900.\u00a0Winning HBO Series\u00a0Game of Thrones\u00a0season 6 will air on the channel this weekend,\u00a0just a few weeks before the new season starts on Monday 17 July. 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\n(stars as\u00a0Bran Stark)<\/span><\/p>\n
\n(stars as\u00a0Petyr \u2018Littlefinger\u2019 Baelish)<\/span><\/p>\n