{"id":2297499,"date":"2026-02-24T14:38:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2297499"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:38:29","slug":"why-hbo-started-shooting-house-of-the-dragon-without-testing-it-with-a-pilot-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-hbo-started-shooting-house-of-the-dragon-without-testing-it-with-a-pilot-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Why HBO Started Shooting House Of The Dragon Without Testing It With A Pilot First"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HBO took a gamble on “House of the Dragon<\/a>,” and it worked out. The prestige cable network decided to begin filming the “Game of Thrones<\/a>” spin-off series without testing it with a pilot first, a move that raised eyebrows not only because it was unusual, but a previously abandoned GoT<\/a> spin-off “Bloodmoon” buried its own $30 million pilot. But former WarnerMedia<\/a> chairman Robert Greenblatt<\/a> says that he pushed to move quickly because of HBO Max<\/a>‘s looming launch window, a sentiment that HBO’s executive vice president Francesca Orsi<\/a> agreed with.<\/p>\n

In a discussion with The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> about reopening the book…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HBO took a gamble on “House of the Dragon,” and it worked out. The prestige cable network decided to begin filming the “Game of Thrones” spin-off series without testing it with a pilot first, a move that raised eyebrows not only because it was unusual, but a previously abandoned GoT spin-off “Bloodmoon” buried its own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2297500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2297499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Why-HBO-Started-Shooting-House-Of-The-Dragon-Without-Testing.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297501,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297499\/revisions\/2297501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2297500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}