HBO will air the seventh and penultimate season of Game of Thrones in the summer of 2017. Game of Thrones Season 7 will consist of seven episodes and HBO is hoping that showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff will extend the series’ eighth and final season to more than the proposed six episodes.
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That isn’t the only method of keeping the Game of Thrones franchise alive that HBO is considering. HBO is also considering a Game of Thrones spinoff, something HBO has never done with any of its previous series. HBO hasn’t made anything official yet, but Casey Bloys, HBO’s president of programming, offered a status update at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour.
“All I can say is that we’re exploring it. We don’t have any scripts, we’re not even close to saying ‘Oh let’s do this.’ But it’s a big enough property that we would be foolish not to explore it,” he told Variety. “It’s a really rich world. We’d be foolish not to look at it.”