Game of Thrones season seven will air in the summer of 2017 and run for seven episodes, according to an HBO press release issued Monday — officially confirming what many have been saying for months: that at least one of the show's probable two final seasonally will be shortened as the series closes in on its endgame. All six previous seasons of Game of Thrones have run for 10 episodes each.
The show, which nabbed an impressive 23
Emmy nominations on July 14, will begin
production this summer and continue filming into the fall, a schedule that will push back Game of Thrones ’ season seven premiere date from spring (when it usually returns) until mid-summer.
According to Casey Bloys, president of HBO
programming, the reason for the scheduling
shift is primarily due to weather. "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," he said in a statement released by the network.
Plans are to film the season’s seven
episodes primarily in Northern Ireland, Spain, and Iceland.
Game of Thrones will debut in the summer of 2017 on HBO; an official date has not yet been announced.
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