Game of Thrones lockdown: HBO won't send press any season 6 episodes

Media will not receive screeners of hit series for first time in secrecy move

Game of Thrones mystery is setting off to a radical new level.

HBO has chosen to not give the media any development scenes of the Emmy-winning arrangement for season 6. The up and coming season is on such a substance lock-down, to the point that the press and Hollywood insiders won't get any scenes ahead of time – either on DVD or through web screening – going around industry tradition. "We're not conveying press duplicates this year, anyplace on the planet," HBO programming president Michael Lombardo told EW. "There will be no duplicates for audit."

The move could be a first for a noteworthy arrangement, however isn't completely astonishing on account of Thrones. This is the primary season where the show has to a great extent surpassed the account distributed in creator George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire adventure, so surprisingly even bad-to-the-bone devotees of the books have no clue what's coming next. Additionally, HBO sent the initial four hours of season 5 to its standard media circulation list, and the substance spilled onto BitTorrent before the show's debut – ruining about a large portion of the season for a few viewers as plot focuses picked up scope on the web. While HBO has subsequent to changed to a more secure web screening framework for faultfinders, the organization has in any case selected against bringing any odds with the strongly expected new season of its most elevated evaluated arrangement ever. Thrones showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss supported the no-screener system to ensure season 6 content and, after some dialog, system officials concurred.

"It's excruciating for Dan and David [when spills happen]," Lombardo said. "When you have press duplicates, unavoidably companions ask, 'Would I be able to see your duplicate?' There are things that happen. We discussed the upsides and drawbacks. A portion of the press are fans who may be baffled, however they'll get it."

The move comes in the midst of significant tension and hypothesis about the storyline of one character specifically – Jon Snow (Kit Harington), who was murdered off in the season 5 finale.

While motion picture studios frequently decline to give commentators a chance to see movies ahead of time if a title is required to get poor audits, it's amazingly uncommon on the TV side to not give survey duplicates – especially for a widely praised arrangement. The choice is all the more impactful since Game of Thrones smashed Emmy records, winning 12 honors including best dramatization, and is one of the world's most prominent appears (in the U.S. alone, Thrones season 5 found the middle value of 20.2 million viewers for every scene when all types of review were tallied). Yet in the event that any title can conceivably air with no debut audits and stay unscathed, it's Thrones. Furthermore, one marvels if the move will just serve to elevate fan and media reckoning for the new season, which as of now appears to be ready to break the show's past debut appraisals records.