Video game of Thrones returns in 2019, HBO validates for very first time

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At last, HBO has actually validated the long-speculated news that its flagship hit series Video game of Thrones is taking a year off.

The Emmy-winning experience will not be back for its final season until 2019.

The revelation suggests fans will have to wait longer than ever for the dream drama, which has grown its rankings every year into among the most popular shows in the world and HBO’s biggest hit of all time.

Last summer, EW was first to report that GoT might avoid 2018, after the show’s showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss described they planned to invest a year and a half crafting the show’s final episodes in an effort to make the last hours as magnificent and satisfying as possible (the 8th season, presently in production, is anticipated to movie up until this summer).

Later on, HBO programs chief Casey Bloys validated to us that a 2019 date was undoubtedly possible. Since then, star Sophie Turner let slip in a current interview that she didn’t anticipate the show to come back until next year either.

The delay makes sense for non-creative factors. As the greatest hit in HBO’s history, one the subscription service wished to continue for additional seasons, keeping the show around awhile long isn’t really a bad thing. With season 7 competing for Emmy awards in 2018 due to its summer season launch last year, HBO can focus its GoT marketing efforts on its Emmy campaign instead of introducing a brand-new season. The relocation also clears a course for the network’s other extravagantly produced and acclaimed category hit, Westworld, which returns for its second season this year after taking its own prolonged break. (Westworld season 1 ended in late 2016.)

The concern on fans’ minds is when, exactly, will GoT return? After all, a final season airing Jan. 1, 2019 is a rather different for fans than one airing Dec. 31, 2019. HBO is quiet on that front. But provided that the network decided to air GoT in the spring every year until a longer-than-usual production schedule pressed season 7 to last summer season, a go back to a spring launch seems logical.

The final season will also certainly be just six episodes as formerly reported. While some episodes may be longer than typical, when again we’re hearing not to anticipate feature-length episodes throughout the season.

The GoT pushback likewise gives author George R.R. Martin more runway to potentially release the next book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series, The Winds of Winter season, which he teased last summertime may be ready in 2018. Given that Martin prepares one last book in the series, An Imagine Spring, the HBO series is still expected to expose its ending of the series before Martin’s version hits book shops.

Martin is also included with the five Thrones prequels in advancement. None have yet been greenlit. Here’s all we understand about those.

When it comes to the final season’s material, up until now the GoT group has actually handled to keep a lid on spoilers with unprecedented behind-the-scenes security. Yet former Thrones star Jason Momoa was just recently going to the set and teased to EW:”It’s going to be the biggest thing that’s ever aired on TELEVISION. It’s going to be unbelievable. It’s going to f– up a lot of people.”