This is what I feared after Mad Men's disappointing (to me anyway) fifth season. But I thought season 6 was great (especially the fantastic finale) and I like what I've seen of the first half of season 7.

You've embiggened this thread with your cromulent comment.

I thought True Detective had good ratings?

If it takes 15 seasons of GoT to bankroll HBO until they find their next Sopranos or Deadwood, I'm all for it. I mean, it's not like they're gonna make me watch those last 8 seasons Clockwork Orange style.

Called a single season, but they still got two bites at the Emmy apple.

It would count for a lot more if 2 Broke Girls were on Showtime (HBO would never debase itself with such a series, but Showtime has and will continue to do so).

Charles Dance is one of those actors who just leaves his scent all over a fucking role. He splooged all up inside Tywin Lannister, and no actor in his right mind wants those sloppy seconds.

Totally this. Sometimes, backstory is richer and more interesting when we only hear bits and pieces of it and oblique references to it. It really deepens the world when characters refer to things we haven't seen. We don't need to fill in every single fucking thing that happened to the characters before GoT.

It would make a decent mini-series. I wouldn't milk it for more than 6-8 episodes.

The ending is always the least interesting of anything, unless it's wholly original. Never understood people who complained about it, I never cared.

I'd prefer a cheerful reboot, with Amy Poehler as a perky Cersei, Jim O'Heir as King Robert, Nick Offerman as…Ned? Aubrey Plaza as Daenerys, Aziz Ansari as Oberyn (or Tyrion, if you prefer), Chris Pratt as…a sunglassed Jaime Lannister, King's Guard! That's it, I'm tapped out.

GRRM of all people does not need to pad the page count.

I mean, I think we have seen Frank get taken down a peg from the almost omnipotent and omniscient figure he was before, but still not terribly compelling.

Yeah, it's definitely not a full on comedy, but it is dialed down a couple of notches from BB, so I was just wondering.

Is he the reich man for the job?

Not disputing that

BCS definitely has the signs of a desperate move, but it's different enough tonally and in its focus to work. The Walking Dead spinoff just sounds idiotic.

"the only member of the cast likely to be alive in 2015."

Yeah, AMC, and most notably in the past few years, Amazon and Netflix, are still getting their sea legs there.

I guess quitting while you're ahead is not really a thing that happens in the business world. There was a time there when the only TV shows they had produced were Remember WENN, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad. The Walking Dead used to be solid, but it very obviously suffers from a lack of vision. I call this Shitcanning…