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A Woman’s World – The Worldviews of Sex and the City

A Woman’s World – The Worldviews of Sex and the City

Sex and the City (1998-2004), was a popular HBO drama-comedy series about four glamorous New York women. Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) – sassy romance column writer; Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) – driven lawyer;  Samantha Jones (kim Cattrall) – hypersexual PR agent; Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) – relatively conservative art...

A Game of Thrones – Game Review

A Game of Thrones – Game Review

A Game of Thrones: The Board Game is a complex strategy game that attempts to capture the intrigue, betrayal, tension, violence and drama of George RR Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels and HBO’s Game of Thrones series.  Believe it or not I think it does this quite well. The basic premise of the game is that Robert Baratheon of House...

VIVID NEWS: A Behind the Scenes Look at HBO’s Game of Thrones Season 2

VIVID NEWS: A Behind the Scenes Look at HBO’s Game of Thrones Season 2

HBO have unveiled the first extended look at the new season of Game of Thrones.  The trailer provides a behind-the-scenes look at the filming on season two with co-creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.  Unlike many other TV series, the world in Game of Thrones is constantly expanding, something Benioff and Weiss needed to adapt into their storytelling. The...

VIVID NEWS: Stephen King’s Dark Tower is Coming to HBO

VIVID NEWS: Stephen King’s Dark Tower is Coming to HBO

Stephen King’s Dark Tower series is being made into an HBO series. In a recent interview with MTV, producer Brian Grazer announced the ambitious Dark Tower project would move to HBO after a failed attempt at a film adaptation. Grazer with Ron Howard and Universal was set to develop a film trilogy and coinciding TV mini-series but with a colossal budget, the...

VIVID NEWS: Neil Gaiman’s American Gods to Become a New HBO Series

VIVID NEWS: Neil Gaiman’s American Gods to Become a New HBO Series

Neil Gaiman is adapting his best selling novel American Gods (2001) into a TV series for HBO. American Gods is the story of ex-con, Shadow released from prison to find himself caught up in a cross country adventure with a host of gods, including Odin, Anubis and Eostre, and other mythical beings who all immigrated to America when the people who believed in them...