{"id":85571,"date":"2013-12-27T03:02:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T08:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=85571"},"modified":"2013-12-27T03:09:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T08:09:28","slug":"the-desolation-of-smaug-to-air-on-tnt-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/12\/27\/85571-the-desolation-of-smaug-to-air-on-tnt-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Desolation of Smaug’ to air on TNT in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bilbo<\/a>As many of you know, The Lord of the Rings<\/em> films have long been running on TNT – and that tradition will continue with The Hobbit<\/em>. Last year, the network nabbed the rights for An Unexpected Journey<\/em> (due to air in 2015), and now they have ensured that the next chapter in Peter Jackson’s adaptation will air the following year.<\/p>\n

From Deadline<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cTNT has been the primary television home to Tolkien\u2019s Middle Earth for nearly a decade,\u201d said TNT president Michael Wright. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to continue our association with these extraordinary and enormously popular epics with the acquisition of The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks to Bard’sBlackArrow<\/strong> and Istolethe1ring<\/strong> for alerting us to this news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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