31 July, 2017
If you'd like to maximize the impact of your #NoConfederate tweets, below are some of the top Game of Thrones-related hashtags from this season and all of 2016, according to Mashable.
One of the protests" organizers, April Reign, told the Los Angeles Times that "We want to show HBO the power of social media of those who are against this show, and demonstrate that there is a unified voice against "Confederate.' Our objective is for HBO to cancel this idea and spend no more money on it".
After Reign's Oscars So White hashtag took off, the film academy invited a significant number of new and diverse members in 2016 to help boost its percentage of female and minority voters.
"My hope is people will judge the actual material instead of what it could be or should be or might be", Bloys said.
Speaking to reporters following a panel at the Television Critic Association, programming president Casey Bloys suggested it would be at least a year after the conclusion of season eight before fans were treated to a glimpse of any spin-off.
"Our mistake was the idea that we would be able to announce an idea that is so sensitive and requires so much thought on the part of the producers in a press release", he said, inferring that necessary context was missing. We're tackling the world's most sour candies in Freaky Foods, Joe Gorman is masquerading as a famous DJ, and we look at the difference between pubs in the country and pubs in the Big Shmoke. "The project is now in its infancy so we hope that people will reserve judgment until there is something to see", the premium cable network said in a statement Sunday.
For the upcoming series, the two will serve as the writers, showrunners, and executive producers with Nichelle Tramble Spellman, Malcolm Spellman, Carolyn Strauss and Bernadette Caulfield. Since HBO will no doubt choose the strongest of the four to adapt for the small screen, how soon can we expect the spinoff to debut after GoT's last episode?
It was a sentiment cosigned by Benioff in an interview with Vulture. We've got black nephews, uncles. "You know, we might fuck it up", he said. Black parents and black grandparents.
What is "Confederate", and why are people planning on tweeting that hashtag during HBO's biggest show of the moment (and arguably one of the biggest TV shows in the world right now)?
#OscarSoWhite pushed conversations about diversity in award shows for movies. "It's what they imagine a modern day institution of slavery would look like". "They're trying to get a sense of how long it's going to take them to shoot this", said Bloys during HBO's panel at the TCA press tour.
"Everyone understands there is a high degree of getting this right".
Some of those opposed to Confederate say it's problematic that Benioff and Weiss, two white men, are leading a project drawing from such a racist chapter of American history.
