Like a Lannister: Brexit won’t harm ‘Game of Thrones’ production

Lena Heady plays Queen Cersie in a famous TV show. PHOTO: FILE

Lena Heady plays Queen Cersie in a famous TV show. PHOTO: FILE

Game of Thrones, a hit HBO cable TV array that is partly filmed in Northern Ireland, will not humour due to Britain’s preference to leave a European Union, a wire network said, aiming to stifle conjecture that a expensively constructed uncover would remove EU funding.

Britons voted on Thursday to leave a European Union, a preference that economists and supervision leaders contend clouds expansion prospects for a world’s fifth-largest economy and could low a captivate for investors.

According to Reuters, a outcome could also daunt Hollywood studios and wire networks to film shows and cinema in Britain, in partial since a nation would no longer have entrance to European subsidies.

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The array perceived support from a EU’s European Regional Development Fund in a early years, HBO confirmed, though a account has supposing no support for a past few seasons.

“We do not expect that a outcome of a EU referendum will have any element outcome on HBO producing Game of Thrones,” a network, a section of Time Warner Inc, pronounced in a statement.

As formula from Britain’s ancestral referendum came in overnight, conjecture widespread online that a preference would harm HBO’s most-watched series, that had as many as 20 million viewers per part final season. The uncover continues to accept appropriation from a UK, including from Northern Ireland Screen (NIS), that provides supervision support for internal businesses.

NIS released a matter on Friday observant a organization “does not use monies supposing from European-funded programmes.”

A infancy of electorate in Northern Ireland, one of 4 “nations” that contain a United Kingdom, expel ballots for remaining in a EU.

Published in The Express Tribune, Jun 27th, 2016.

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