- Flagship HBO (NYSE:TWX) series Game of Thrones will return for its seventh season on July 16, a date revealed after it appeared in a melting block of ice in a Facebook Live stunt.
- For some time, it's been known that the premiere would be pushed later than its typical March/April start due to the need to film the later seasons in colder climes to fit the show's plot developments.
- More than 160,000 tuned in to a glitchy live broadcast, and typed comments in order to spark blasts of fire to melt the ice more quickly, though the event dropped offline a few times.