TV Blog Buzz: New ‘Walking Dead’ approaches; missing “Game of Thrones” Hodor

It’s not exactly unexpected but “Walking Dead” star Andrew Lincoln, a.k.a. Rick Grimes, is assuring fans there will be blood in season 5, which kicks off in just over a month. Lots of blood. Perhaps more than ever before.

“Because (Rick) is incredibly uncompromising, I think he is dragging a lot of those people into a place that is darker, more brutal, and there will be fallout from that,” Lincoln tells Entertainment Weekly.

“So it feels like it’s a more grown-up show. It feels like we’re heading into the heart of darkness. Brutal is the word for this season. It’s always been pretty intense, but this season I think is very hard hitting. People should be prepared for that, I think.”

“The Walking Dead” returns to AMC on Oct. 12.

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Hodor fans might be a little disappointed with the upcoming season of “Game Of Thrones.”

Kristian Nairn, who plays the lovable lug, has confirmed that his storyline doesn’t play out in the show’s fifth season, so he’s on a bit of a break from the series.

“We (Hodor and the character Bran Stark) have a season off and we have a year’s hiatus,” says Nairn, according to Australian broadcaster ABC.

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“The Sopranos” creator David Chase insists he was misquoted by a reporter and never revealed the secret behind the show’s befuddling final episode.

But he has given fans a reason to rewatch that infamous last scene with something to think about.

It was recently reported that Chase finally explained the show’s ending: Tony Soprano is alive, and the fade-to-black conclusion wasn’t meant to insinuate he was killed.

But Chase says he was misquoted, and is sticking to his decision to leave the ending up to interpretation.

He did talk more about his thoughts on wrapping up the series in an interview with the Daily Beast. He previously said the conclusion “raises a spiritual question that has no right or wrong answer,” and was asked to define what that question is.

“I’ll say this: The question is, to be really pretentious, ‘What is time?’” says Chase.

“How do we spend our really brief sojourn here? How do we behave, and what do we do? And the recognition that it’s over all too soon, and it very seldom happens the way we think. I think death very seldom comes to people the way they think it’s going to. And the spiritual question would be: ‘Is that all there is?’”

Chase gives another intriguing answer when asked if he ever considered making a movie version of “The Sopranos.”

“Sure, I considered it. Another way of putting it is that I’m always considering it and I’m always thinking about it,” he says.

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