YouTube Deep Dive: Game of Thrones Pilot (2011)

Making high fantasy television is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make the pilot of Game of Thrones, from the showrunners producing a terrible first episode to recasting the iconic Daenerys Targaryen.

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In the entertainment world, there are millions of dollars on the line and troubled productions are bound to happen. And we are going to talk about these disastrous, never ending, and sometimes dangerous productions. From the creators of WTF Happened To This Movie?, Sh*t Show is a video essay/documentary/podcast series looking at some of your favorite films and tv shows, and why they were such a nightmare to make.

Sources:

• AV Club
• Collider
• Entertainment Weekly 1
• Entertainment Weekly 2
• Entertainment Weekly 3
• Entertainment Weekly 4
• Gizmodo
• The Guardian
• Hollywood Reporter
• HuffPost
• IndieWire
• KRCW
• MTV
• New York Times 1
• New York Times 2
• Scriptnotes
• The Telegraph
• Variety 1
• Variety 2
  
  
• 60 Minutes 1
• 60 Minutes 2
• Entertainment Tonight
• Jimmy Kimmel Live

Music:

• The Hold Steady - The Bear and the Maiden Fair
• Julien Hauspie - South Park / Game of Thrones (Wiener song mash-up)
• Ramin Djawadi - Game of Thrones (Original Soundtrack)

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