HBO has confirmed that the new seasons of GAME OF THRONES, SILICON VALLEY and VEEP will debut back-to-back on SUNDAY, APRIL 24, starting at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT).

GAME OF THRONES begins its ten-episode sixth season SUNDAY, APRIL 24 (9:00-10:00 p.m.). Based on the popular book series “A Song of Ice and Fire,” by George R.R. Martin, this hit Emmy^®-winning fantasy series chronicles an epic struggle for power in a vast and violent kingdom. The ensemble cast for the fifth season included Emmy^® and Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Aidan Gillen, Kit Harington, Diana Rigg, Natalie Dormer, Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner. Executive producers, David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Carolyn Strauss, Frank Doelger, Bernadette Caulfield; co-executive producers, Guymon Casady, Vince Gerardis, George R.R. Martin.

SILICON VALLEY returns for its ten-episode third season SUNDAY, APRIL 24 (10:00-10:30 p.m.). The Emmy^®-winning and Golden Globe-nominated series takes a comic look at the modern-day epicenter of the high-tech gold rush, where the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. A collaboration between Mike Judge and Alec Berg, the series stars Thomas Middleditch, T.J. Miller, Zach Woods, Kumail Nanjiani, Martin Starr, Josh Brener, Amanda Crew, Matt Ross, Suzanne Cryer and Jimmy O. Yang. Mike Judge, Alec Berg, Michael Rotenberg and Tom Lassally executive produce. The series was created by Mike Judge & John Altschuler & Dave Krinsky.

VEEP launches its ten-episode fifth season SUNDAY, APRIL 24 (10:30-11:00 p.m.). This Emmy^®-nominated series stars Emmy^®winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus as former Vice President Selina Meyer, who became president after her predecessor stepped down. The cast also includes Emmy^® winner Tony Hale, Anna Chlumsky, Reid Scott, Matt Walsh, Timothy C. Simons, Sufe Bradshaw, Kevin Dunn, Gary Cole, Sam Richardson and Hugh Laurie. Dave Mandel, Frank Rich, Chris Godsick, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Lew Morton executive produce.

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Nerdist is combining Game of Thrones with Taylor Swift's smash hit Blank Space and the results are epic!

What do Taylor Swift's ex-boyfriends and dead characters on Game of Thrones have in common? There's an awful lot of them. 

As we learn in T. Swift's hit single, there's a Blank Space for a new lover to ride her tumultuous relationship roller coaster, just as George R.R. Martin has a Blank Page for our favorite characters to meet a grisly demise. That's right -- no one is safe in love or the wild world of Westeros, not even fan-favorite Daenerys Targaryen. 

The night is dark and full of music videos inspired by Taylor Swift, so find out what fate has in store for the Mother of Dragons and watch Nerdist Presents: George R.R. Martin’s Blank Page. 

About Nerdist:

Nerdist Industries is a multi-platform creator of genre and popular culture content. Founded by CEO Chris Hardwick, its online presence includes a website at Nerdist.com; a premium YouTube channel (youtube.com/nerdist) featuring Nerdist News hosted by Jessica Chobot; a combined 2.75 million Twitter followers; a Podcast Network including the flagship Nerdist Podcast; The Nerdist School comedy training program; and the Nerdist Alliance, a community of curated partnerships with some of YouTube's most talented and passionate creators including up and coming stars Hannah and Hilly Hindi of The Hillywood Show. Nerdist also produces content for television including @midnight for Comedy Central and All Star Celebrity Bowling for AMC. Further, Nerdist hosts live events around the country such as The Nerdist Podcast Live! and Course of the Force, an annual lightsaber relay in partnership with Lucasfilm LTD. Legendary Entertainment acquired Nerdist Industries in August 2012.

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By the time day 2 of Comic Con hits, the need for sleep is at a high, but it doesn’t matter because you’re at Comic Con, and you can sleep when you get home. So with the Game of Thrones signing ticket in the bag, there was some time to hit the floor.

One of the things that I usually do when I first get my badge is check out the program book and see what booths will be there. This year, one ad stuck out: a book ad for the new book Fiend. Its cover was interesting and it was billed as “Walking Dead meets Breaking Bad.” I was so in.

So with some time until I had to hit the other signings and events on my agenda, I headed to find Fiend. When I got to the booth, the guy working tried to get me to put on a temporary tattoo advertising the booth. I made him put it on my hand, if I was going to wear the thing I wasn’t going to put it there myself. Then I asked him to pitch me the book. He gave it a fantastic pitch, and I was completely sold. I told him I’d buy a copy and asked if the writer would be in so I could get it signed, but he said it was already signed. I’m odd, I like items to be signed in front of me if they’re being added to my collection. But he didn’t say he had any unsigned, he said that I could have the copy for free though, but I still wanted to meet the writer.

Now at this point normally an author would have piped up and said he wrote the thing, and not many authors are out selling their own books down with the publishers, so I didn’t expect the guy I had been chatting with for the last thirty minutes to be the author but I caught a glimpse of his name tag and saw that it was. Oh I felt so silly, but I told him, since it was his first book that I had to buy it to support his work. But he insisted that I take the book free of charge. So I told him that I would buy one for the girl I was with, and he gave her a copy too, telling me that we could play this game all day.  So I settled for giving him a hug and offering to write a review for him, which he graciously accepted both. Check back for the review!

 

Next we regrouped and headed over to pay Michael McMillian a visit. Michael is one of those people who are on the top of my to-do list for comic con, even though I see him not only every year, but several times a year. He’s just a lot of fun to be around, and his stories are really quite charming. This year he was there to promote his upcoming book for True Blood, Steve Newlin’s Field Guide to Vampires. It was obviously written prior to Steve’s transformation, and it’s very funny, especially the parts that are written by the characters of Eric and Pam.

Next up was the Phineas and Ferb signing, which almost didn’t happen for me because of time constraints and the large amount of people waiting for them. This show has a huge following, seriously huge. But I have a little one who is nutty for the show, and so its not one I can skip without consequences, partly because it was the first time I had seen Alyson Stoner at a convention. Every year I not only bring back something signed by the cast, but also a voice memo of some sort for her, and she already had one from everyone there (Jeff 'Swampy' Marsh, Dan Povenmire, Vincent Martella, and Dee Bradley Baker) except Alyson. So while the line managers said only one thing per person signed, he let me slip in two since I also had a poster that was just missing Alyson’s signature, and Alyson recorded a message as Isabella inviting her to join the fireside girls. This cast is really great with their fans.

The last signing of the day for me was the Game of Thrones signing. It was the first time I had ever gotten a signing ticket and I could not be more excited. The downside was that it was at the WB booth. The way they set up their signings its almost impossible to get pictures if you’re in line for it, and even if you’re outside of it, they have security blocking it. But I got a little facetime with the cast, D.B. Weiss, David Benioff, George R.R. Martin, Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Michelle Fairley, Richard Madden, Rose Leslie, and John Bradley were all in attendance. The worst though was seeing some fan favorites who had perished it made me miss their characters all the more, but they all had other projects that they could talk about.

If you want to see more pictures from the day check out our Flickr album!

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