United States cable monolith HBO has confirmed its most popular show Game of Thrones will end its run after two more seasons, but hasn’t ruled out the possibility of a spin-off series.
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For reference, here’s exactly what Casey Bloys, HBO’s incoming programming president, said at the TCA, according to Entertainment Weekly: A reporter asked Bloys if he planned to go along with Benioff and Weiss’ plan to end the show after eight seasons.
“If I could get them to do more, I would take 10 seasons”, Bloys said.
On the other, we really don’t know what the internet is expected to do without all the eye-opening fan theories, collective shock at every big-name death and, most importantly, the sweet sweet memes.
With only 15 shows left to produce, such is seen as the reason why the showrunners are taking their sweet time and not rushing the release of “Game of Thrones” season 7.
He added: “Now that winter has arrived on Game of Thrones, executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss felt that the storylines of the next season would be better served by starting production a little later than usual, when the weather is changing”.
This announcement comes as the original Game of Thrones book by George R.R Martin celebrates its 20th anniversary.
“Game” won’t be back with its seventh season until next summer, missing the deadline for the 2017 Emmy competition, which it routinely dominates. I’m not sure the guys can wrap their heads around it when they are about to start production. “The guys weren’t opposed to it, but there’s no concrete plans for it at this point”.
Game of Thrones received 23 Emmy nominations for its sixth season this year, making it the most-nominated series for the third year in a row.
A report from BBC bares that “Game of Thrones” will stay the course and in fact end with its eighth season set for 2018.
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Though HBO is playing coy with spinoff buzz, you’d have to think the network is certainly looking at options to keep the Thrones franchise rolling once the main saga is complete.
