The eighth and final season of Game of Thrones might not air until 2019.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, HBO programming president Casey Bloys revealed that, while nothing's set in stone yet, there's a chance fans will have to wait an extra year for the show's final season. It all depends on how much time showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will need to make Season 8.
"They have to write the episodes and figure out the production schedule," Bloys said. "We’ll have a better sense of that once they get further into the writing."
Bloys also confirmed that the upcoming Game of Thrones spinoffs currently in development will only air sometime after Season 8 concludes, as HBO wants to give the original series "its proper send off first."
The network is also open to the idea of having any of the prequel spinoffs be a limited series instead of a regular series, so as long as the quality is up to par with the original show. Bloys reaffirmed that Benioff and Weiss won't be involved in the spinoffs, saying, "they want to enjoy the show as fans and don’t want to worry about the scripts or production issues."
He also said HBO doesn't plan on having a new Game of Thrones show for each quarter. "That’s not what’s going on," Bloys said. "The idea is not to do four shows. The bar set by [Benioff and Weiss] is so high that my hope is to get one show that lives up to it."
Game of Thrones: Season 7 premieres Sunday, July 16, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO. While you wait for the show's return, read up on the five potential spinoff series that are currently in development and check out IGN's visual refresher for every Game of Thrones episode so far.
Alex Gilyadov is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
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