"Game of Thrones" fans will be in for a treat this spring as HBO launches an immersive, traveling exhibit that transports visitors to the "GoT" world of Westeros.

Exhibit, built by New Project LLC, will be free to the public and center on the key characters from five of the noble houses -- Stark, Lannister, Targaryen, Baratheon and Greyjoy. Visitors will get to explore over 70 original artifacts from the first and second seasons of "GoT" along with select pieces from season three, including costumes, props, armor and weapons. Photo opps and an interactive experience featuring the Blackwater Bay from season two of "GoT" will also be available for fans.

Exhibition tour dates and venues are as follows:

Toronto (in partnership with HBO Canada)

March 9 – 16

Design Exchange

234 Bay Street

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5K 1B2

For ticket information and more, log on tothemovienetwork.ca/exhibition

New York City (in partnership with Time Warner Cable)

March 28 – April 3

Additional details to be announced

Sao Paulo (in partnership with HBO Latin America)

April 25 – 30*

Additional details to be announced

Amsterdam (in partnership with HBO Netherlands)

May 19 – 27

Additional details to be announced

Belfast (in partnership with Northern Ireland Screen, Northern Ireland Tourist Board and Titanic Belfast)

June 8 – 17

Titanic Belfast

1 Olympic Way,
Queen’s Road,
Titanic Quarter,
Belfast, N. Ireland, BT3 9EP

For ticket information and more, log on to www.discovernorthernireland.com/GoTExhibition

Season three of "Game of Thrones" premieres on March 31 on HBO.

As the person in the Variety office who watches unscripted for both work and pleasure, I am often approached by colleagues and asked: "So, are you watching 'The Bachelor' this season?"

Is the sky blue?

Of course I watch "The Bachelor." The dating competition series has, for several seasons, fed the TV viewer in me that loves catty drama paired with champagne and a touch of romance. (I am a Pisces, after all.) I've always enjoyed the franchise, but when I'm asked this season -- the program's seventeenth iteration -- if I am tuning, I've found myself responding with: "Yes, and it's complete farce."

God bless Sean Lowe, this season's bachelor, and all of his well-intentioned smiles. He has been dubbed on Twitter one of the most genuine men to be on the show, and looks like he was birthed from a Bow Flex machine. But, unfortunately for Sean and his yet-to-be-named fiance, ABC has spun this installment of the skein into something that resembles "Survivor," "Fear Factor" and "Big Brother," all rolled up into one show with dating and a few long-stem roses as the anchor point.

The success of last season's "Bachelor" was, arguably, the success of painting season winner, Courtney, as a villain. Viewers loved to hate-watch the femme as she progressed in the competition, and editors did her no favors when cutting the show together. While ratings slipped for the skein compared to past seasons, Courtney and Ben's faces littered the covers of rag mags and gossip sites, bringing the show -- and its characters -- deeper into the American vernacular.

ABC must have taken note, because this season's villain, Tierra, has been editorialized beyond belief. On-air ads for "The Bachelor" no longer focus on burgeoning relationships on the show, but the program's villain and her catchphrase name, "Tierrable." When she exited the skein this week, I couldn't help but wonder: what now, ABC?

Dates have gone off the deep end -- literally -- as well. Each one of Sean's group or one-on-one expeditions seems to involve some sort of repelling, diving, gripping of safety bars and overall wearing of helmets. What ever happened to just dinner and a movie? Why are the girls being asked to drink warm goat's milk in some sort of weird dare? Why are we sending the woman with one arm on a date that she can only complete if she repels down a 30 story building, and then on a group date that is nothing but roller derby? Why are we doing this?

To make matters worse, ABC has introduced on its website the Kiss Leaderboard, a scoreboard that shows how each woman has fared in "pecks," "make outs," and "hot tub kisses" and does everything short of saying it's sponsored by Cosmo.

More importantly, how is the ABC Digital employee faring who has to update this ridiculous thing?

"Bachelor" creator Mike Fleiss made a bit of noise in the reality space last year when he claimed about 70-80% of unscripted programs are fake -- just not his beloved dating show. But Fleiss's skein is finding itself lost in the villains, the smooch graphics and the gags. While he may claim his show is of the truthier variety, "The Bachelor" is still sinking into intolerable quick sand and may be heading towards its final rose.

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Just two months after the death of Jenni Rivera, Spanish cabler mun2 has announced the return of docuseries "I Love Jenni" for its third season.

Program will rejoin to the net's lineup on Sunday, April 14 at 9 p.m. and, according to mun2, feature footage shot in the month prior to Rivera's untimely death. The chantoosie was killed in a plane crash along with six others on December 9 in Mexico.

Additionally, season three of "I Love Jenni" will feature Rivera's family as they preserve the legacy of the late singer. Rivera's children and sister will be included in the reality show.

Separately, Rivera's family has set a world exclusive interview with Univision's Don Francisco to air on February 17. Univision and Telemundo are competing Spanish-language nets, with "I Love Jenni's" mun2 a sibling cabler to Telemundo.

Rabbit: The Video Chat Revolution Begins from Rabbit on Vimeo

Back in the old days of social TV, one didn't have to worry about looking presentable to interact online with friends about shows. But if the new video-chat software Rabbit takes off, the pressure may be on to look as good as the actors you're watching on screen.

Rabbit merges multi-person video chat with the ability to share the programming for watching in real-time together with friends from the comfort of their own webcam-equipped homes. So instead of, say, tweeting along to "South Park" with fellow fans with your hair dangerously uncombed, you and said fans can actually be looking at each other while watching. Music and other kinds of content can also be shared, and there's a nifty integration with Facebook to connect with friends.

One caveat: The content that can be integrated into Rabbit can only be from free ad-supported video sources like YouTube or Hulu. Video from transactional platforms, be it subscription VOD like Netflix or a la carte platforms like iTunes, don't grant rights that allow for public viewing.

Rabbit launched Thursday in a closed beta (visit www.rabb.it to request an invite) for Macs only so far. But join up if you want to get an early sense of how social TV is likely to evolve.

So: you finished Netflix's "House of Cards" in a single weekend. (No? You didn't? Just me? Alright...) This type of feat unleashes a wave of emotions that can overpower even the most elite TV viewer, so I thought I'd capture it here.

THE SIX STAGES OF "HOUSE OF CARDS" GRIEF:

1. ACCOMPLISHMENT: Congrats! You managed to consume over 12 hours of programming in a handful of days, proving that you are willing to forgo any social obligations in the name of a self-imposed dare. High fives all around to your other hand, soldier. You tweet out your victory proudly to the public, and pity those barely through episode 4 of "Cards."

2. REMORSE: Wait. You just finished a compelling drama in a handful of days. This is akin to eating your favorite dessert too quickly, and you find yourself regretting your decision to hole up in your bedroom with your laptop for hours on end. What could you have accomplished this weekend that you neglected because of Kevin Spacey? And did you really have to blow through those episodes so quickly? Is tantric TV viewing a thing? If it's not, should it be?

3. FRUSTRATION: What the hell, Netflix. You didn't even give us a premiere date for season 2 and we're just supposed to sit around and wait until that announcement comes out, and then, you guessed it, wait some more. You, the viewer, find yourself angrily Googling "House of Cards season 2 premiere" only to come up empty-handed with a meaningless article from EW.com. "Screw this," you think. (In therapy down the line, you'll eventually realize you were never mad at Netflix, but rather yourself for lacking the self control to parse out your viewing experience. You were childish, eating all of your Halloween candy in one sitting and now stuck with a stomach ache and an empty Pumpkin-shaped basket. "Radical Self-Forgiveness" is available for purchase from Amazon's Kindle store, when you're ready.)

4. DEPRESSION: You return home from work or other responsibilities and find no TV show or movie is replacing Kevin Spacey's direct-to-camera smugness. Depression, peppered with regret, begins to set in. You watch your Twitter feed as others discover episodes you hastily consumed last week, and are jealous of them reveling in the poignant moments of "House of Cards." You eat a pint of Ben & Jerry's, but it only does so much.

5. URGE TO FIND A REBOUND: Time to get back in the game. After all, you've seen all of those articles about Netflix licensing programs from a trillion networks, so there are for sure plenty of streaming shows in the sea. What's next? This, you think to yourself, is a perfectly good time to watch "Psych," which you'd been meaning to tune into anyways. And "Bones." It's fine, it's fine that these aren't cinematic like "Cards," it's fine that they don't have Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright in the cast, it's totally, totally fine that David Fincher wouldn't direct these with a ten foot pole, really. Really it's fine. You tell yourself this as you weep over your keyboard, before realizing you could short circuit your laptop with tears and retire your face to your pillow instead. Rebounds aren't often a good idea.

6. ACCEPTANCE: After some introspection and the realization that "Walking Dead" returns Sunday, you come to understand that everything will be just fine, even though you binge-viewed "House of Cards" in an ungodly amount of time. There is a life outside of Underwood World, you discover. You have hobbies, and a sink full of dishes that need to be tended to, and your cat may warm up to you again if you feed it a few times, which you forgot to do while staring at Netflix.com all weekend. You have a family that loves you, even though you have twenty five missed calls and texts that read, "Really? You can tweet about Zoe Barnes not being a realistic character, but you can't call me back?" It's time to apologize to those you neglected, sift through your DVR and do some yoga.

After all, you'll need to regain your strength before you surrender yourself to this self-hatred yet again when "Arrested Development" comes out in May.

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