HBO Signs ‘Game of Thrones’ to Two More Seasons

The epic fantasy had its highest ratings on Sunday night for its season premiere. The network’s announcement carries the series through six seasons.



‘Game of Thrones’ Settles Into Hit Status

The premiere Sunday night averaged 6.6 million viewers at 9 p.m., the largest audience for any show on HBO since the finale of “The Sopranos” in 2007.



Impatience Has Its Reward: Books Are Rolled Out Faster

While the television industry has begun catering to impatient audiences by releasing entire series at once, the book business is upending its traditional timetable by encouraging a kind of binge reading, releasing new works by a single author at an accelerated pace.

    



Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: Awkwardness at NBC, and Barbara Walters’ Retirement

NBC has yet to learn how to handle successions gracefully, Barbara Walters will retire in 2014, and Christopher Cuomo and Kate Bolduan will host a new CNN morning show.