Game of Thrones season six is set to premiere a week from tomorrow on April 24th. The sixth season of the hit HBO show will air 10 episodes once again, which is what every season has aired up to his point.
But with season six set to premiere in just over a week, reports are emerging that season seven and maybe eight may have only 13 episodes combined.
From the start, the Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have consistently stated they don’t want to drag the story on past most likely seven seasons. This past July however, HBO Executive Michael Lombardo said that the show could go past seven seasons possibly, if Benioff and Weiss choose. Because obviously, for a highly successful TV show, HBO would love to have it go on for the foreseeable future.
Variety recently interviewed Benioff and Weiss, and said that there could possibly be eight seasons instead of seven, but that seasons seven and eight wouldn’t have the customary 10 episodes.
“I think we’re down to our final 13 episodes after this season. We’re heading into the final lap,” said Benioff. “That’s the guess, though nothing is yet set in stone, but that’s what we’re looking at.”
“As a television executive, as a fan, do I wish they said another six years? I do,” Lombardo said.
“It’s crossing out of a television schedule into more of a mid-range movie schedule,” Weiss said.
Season six is estimated to cost somewhere around $100 million, which is about $10 million per episode, making Game of Thrones once again the most expensive TV show to produce in history.
