HBO Expanding ‘Game of Thrones’ Universe With 3 New Spinoffs

The Afghan Whigs have announced ‘How Do You Burn?’, their first new album in five years, and shared their latest single ‘The Getaway’ – you can hear the new song below.After returning with new music back in February, the five-piece are now set to release their ninth studio album, which will be the follow-up to 2017’s ‘In Spades’, on September 9 via Royal Cream/BMG. Pre-order is available here.Work on ‘How Do You Burn?’ started in September 2020, with recording largely taking place remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Porridge Radio have shared their brand new single ‘End Of Last Year’, which is a love song frontwoman Dana Margolin wrote for the band.The track is taken from the Brighton band’s upcoming third album ‘Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky’ and follows on from singles ‘The Rip’ and ‘Back To The Radio’.Speaking about the song, Margolin said: “‘End Of Last Year’ is a love song for my bandmates and for myself. It’s about not trusting my intuition, not trusting my body to heal itself, not trusting the people closest to me, but it is also an ode to all those people, and to difficult platonic love.“It came out of a particularly painful period of communication breakdown and high pressure that hurt a lot, but ended in reconciliation and understanding.”‘End Of Last Year’ arrives alongside a video directed by Maura Sappilo.

announcing his £2.4million splurge on a Lamborghini superyacht, Conor McGregor is finally sailing the seas on arguably his most lavish purchase to date.McGregor, 33, confirmed the expenditure in July 2021, not long after his most recent outing in the UFC. The Dubliner was at the time recovering from his second straight defeat to Dustin Poirier, having broken his leg in devastating fashion at the end of the opening round in Las Vegas.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDisney Streaming Services, which operates the Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ and Star+ services globally, has tapped two tech veterans — Devika Chawla from Netflix and Arun Chandra — for senior roles.Chawla (above left) joins Disney Streaming next week as senior VP of lifecycle engineering, after a decade of building out Netflix’s global customer communication products and teams. Most recently, she served as director of engineering, messaging and contact, at Netflix.Chawla will lead Disney’s initiatives to “optimize customer journeys, interactions and retention” for Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ and Star+.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhile year-over-year growth in the wake of a global pandemic is an unprecedented metric for the music industry, Universal Music Group posted a robust first quarter for 2022, with revenue up 21.6% (16.5% in constant currency) to €2.199 billion ($2.31 billion). Many of these boosts are at least partially a result of the gradual reopening of the world’s economy after the lockdown of the pandemic.Music publishing revenue was up 32.5%, recorded-music revenue up 11.3% and merchandising and other revenue up a whopping 69.8% year-over-year in constant currency.The company’s adjusted EBITDA increased 14.0% year-over-year in constant currency.Recorded Music revenues for the first quarter of 2022 were €1,721 million, up 16.0% compared to the fourth quarter of 2021, or 11.3% in constant currency.

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. production company Catalyst Studios is launching with a slate of female-fronted projects that will be repped for sales by Highland Entertainment Group.

HAVE YOUR SAY! Would you eat the food at Windsor? Tell us in the comments section belowAnd a third posting: "All greasy and the bacon looks like dog chews.

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures’ 3000 Pictures has preemptively acquired film rights to I Think My Mother-In-Law Is Trying to Kill Me—a psychological thriller, based on a Reddit short story by Nick Moorefox.

Tipping Point viewers were in for a treat after Ben Shephard revealed that one contestant had made history.Torah was joined by Sati and Lynda as the trio tried to battle it out for a chance to win a cash prize from the money machine.She wore a white and green vest top and styled her hair in a half up-half down style as she stood behind the podium.Ben asked his final penalty pot question and asked the players to clarify what Roman numeral number is represented by XX, to which she buzzed in a replied with "20".The correct answer landed Torah with two counters for the machine.She went with drop zone two as it "looked flat" and the counter managed to push the double token over the first ledge.She ended up with five counters which totalled to £250 for her prize fund and released the other counter.Torah once again went with drop zone two and although her counter was aimed towards the left, Ben called out in amazement at her "nice finish" which gave her another £300.Along with her winnings prior to the round, Torah had a whopping £1500.Ben exclaimed: "You've managed to make a little bit of Tipping Point history because that is a record in this round without a double.

Reddit user explained she lives in a flat with underground parking and their rent payments include two spaces in the car park. Usually the woman parks in one of her spaces, but as the car park is tight, she finds it hard to get out if someone's next to her.So she and her partner decided to use both spots by parking their car in the middle of the spaces.In her post, she said: "My husband and I live in an apartment complex which has underground parking."As part of our rent, we pay for two parking spaces, but we only have one car."The parking area underneath the block is quite tight and one of our spots is next to a corner wall."But when someone parks in the next corner wall it overlaps our spot.

Playboy model who Vladimir Putin once sacked for nude snaps has moaned Russia's war on Ukraine cancelled her birthday plans. Anna Anufrieva was hoping to celebrate her 30th birthday away from her native Tyumen, Siberia but has instead been forced to find a more local alternative.The former civil servant was left homeless in 2019 when bosses saw racy photos she sent to Playboy magazine and fired her from a 'secret' day job. Since the stressful nightmare she found herself in, Anna has shown off to her 7,000 Instagram followers exotic holiday photos including a sun-drenched trip to Cuba.

ChronicleLive reports.A spokesperson for the Vaulkhard Group, which owns the bar, told ChronicleLive it is a policy that has been in place at the venue for 20 years and is there to "ensure the environment for all customers is maintained".Sue said: "We met her at Grey's Monument and I said 'it will be lovely, we'll go to Barluga'. I often meet friends there for lunch or a coffee, they have a nice terrace and I thought it would be quiet with a nice ambience and we could have a catch-up."When we arrived there were two bouncers on the door.

Emily Atack has made public the vile slew of explicit messages she receives from an internet troll as she begged Instagram bosses and fans for help.The TV star, 32, has taken to Instagram to share just a handful of the sexual messages she receives daily, as she pleads with Instagram bosses to make this "illegal".In a series of screenshotted direct messages posted to her Instagram story, Emily used the opportunity to call out and expose the troll sending her dozens of unsolicited sexually-graphic messages every single day.Over one of the screenshots she wrote: "How is this s*** still allowed? How do we make this illegal?"The Celebrity Juice team captain continued: "This is a platform where children could easily receive this abuse. I am harassed everyday by this man.""I block and block, and he creates new accounts and gets into my private messages.

China has reportedly been testing an anti-ship ballistic missile which could be capable of sinking aircraft carriers in one hit.A clip posted by the People’s Liberation Army (PLAN) on April 16 has led military experts to theorise that the communist state could have developed a whole new missile known as the YJ-21.In the clip, a strange missile can be seen being fired from the Chinese warship Wuxi, which is a guided-missile cruiser.The Wuxi is thought to be China’s biggest and most technologically advanced destroyer.Most experts who have studied the footage of the launch believe that the new missile is an anti-ship missile.If this is true, it would mean the Chinese government have military technology that no other country on Earth possesses. It’s thought that as the missile was seen being launched from an active ship, it is most likely in use across China’s fleet.

Lady Gaga received a very special guest during her concert in Sin City. On Sunday night, Tom Cruise stopped by the Park MGM in Las Vegas, where the singer was performing at the resort’s Dolby Live amphitheater. On Monday, the 36-year-old took to social media and shared two photos of herself and the "Top Gun: Maverick" star planting a kiss on each other’s cheeks backstage.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorMunich-based Global Screen has acquired family entertainment film “School of Magical Animals 2” for worldwide distribution. A first teaser will be presented at the Cannes Market for the project, which has a budget of more than $13 million.

Blossoms look set to score this week’s Number 1 album with Ribbon Around the Bomb. 

spinoffs to expand upon the popular fictional universe, according to multiplereports.The network is working on a trio of prequels, set before the events of, that will tell the stories of characters who played a role in the history of the world, first imagined and detailed in the novels of George R. R.

While HBO is still casting its Game of Thrones spin-off House of the Dragon, the cable network has put three more spin-offs into development, some of which may have crossover potential with House of the Dragon.The first show is 9 Voyages (which has also been called Sea Snake), which hails from Rome and Gotham creator Bruno Heller, according to Variety.The other two shows - entitled Flea Bottom and 10,000 Ships - do not have writers attached as of yet.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterHBO is developing a trio of new “Game of Thrones” prequel series, sources tell Variety.One spinoff, titled “9 Voyages” or “Sea Snake,” hails from “Rome” co-creator Bruno Heller, while the other two, “Flea Bottom,” and “10,000 Ships” have no writers yet attached.“9 Voyages” would center on Lord Corlys Velaryon — known as the “Sea Snake” and head of House Velaryon, husband to Rhaenys Targaryen — on the Sea Snake vessel.

EXCLUSIVE: As HBO continues to plot an expansion of its Game of Thrones universe, more clues emerge about what directions the expansion could go into.