Game of Thrones season 7 will get a much later start date than usual with the seven episode offering not debuting until summer 2017…
Winter is here but Game of Thrones won’t be back until summer.
That’s the word from HBO after it was confirmed on Monday that Game of Thrones will begin production on the seven episode season 7 this summer, but the show won’t return to television until summer 2017.
The reason for the delay largely stems from the change in seasons on the show, where winter finally arrived at the at the end of season 6, which means Game of Thrones will need to film in much colder climates.
The show is expected to film in Northern Ireland as well as Iceland and Spain for season 7.
“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,” said Casey Bloys, HBO president of programming said in a statement.
“Instead of the show’s traditional spring debut, we’re moving the debut to summer to accommodate the shooting schedule.”
Game of Thrones season 7 will be the penultimate season for the long running HBO show with seven episodes before what’s likely to be a six episode final season in 2018.
The show might be debuting a little bit later than usual next year, but HBO also revealed on Monday that Game of Thrones season 6 once again shattered viewing records with an average of 25.1 million viewers per episode this season across multiple formats.
Game of Thrones is already HBO’s most watched show of all time and judging by those numbers, things will only get bigger for the final two seasons.
