Good news and bad news,
Game of Thrones fans. The good news? We’re probably getting more than the originally-predicted seven seasons. The bad news?
Game of Thrones still has to end sometime, and that sometime is probably after season eight. When HBO’s president of programming
Michael Lombardo addressed critics during the 2015 Summer TCA press tour, he was immediately asked about when the highly popular fantasy series might come to an end, especially since the show has now caught up to George R.R. Martin’s books.
The answer, in a nutshell, is that the show will end whenever executive producers David Benioff and Dan Weiss want it to end.
Lombardo says he thinks ‘seven seasons and out’ has never been part of the plan. But, he added, the question is how much beyond the seventh season HBO is going to do.
