Winter is coming … next year. HBO announced on Thursday that Game of Thrones will return for its eighth and final season in 2019. No month or date was announced.
The final season will be comprised of six episodes. It’s been reported that these episodes will be longer than the traditional hour-long format.
Directors for the new season are David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, David Nutter, and Miguel Sapochnik. Writers for the new season are David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, Bryan Cogman, and Dave Hill.
The seven-episode Season 7 of the popular fantasy series finished airing in August 2017. That means there will be no new Game of Thrones in 2018. At the end of Season 7, the Night King had breached the Wall, with Daenerys Targaryen, Jon Snow, and Cersei Lannister forging an uneasy alliance to fight the undead threat.
Several Game of Thrones spin-offs are reportedly in development as well. No dates for these series have been announced either.
More to come.
