We don’t know exactly when Game of Thrones is going to return for its eighth and final season, but we do know that for the entire time between the first and last episode of it, we’re not going to be able to talk about anything else. Apologies in advance, we guess.
Previously it had been announced that the show will return in the first half of 2019, and now we may have narrowed that down even further.
Most seasons of Thrones have began in April, so we were expecting (hoping) that would be the same for next year. However, visual effects supervisor Joe Bauer told HuffPost that season 8 will be eligible for the 2020 Emmys, not the 2019 ones.
He told them: “In two years we’ll be eligible for the Season 8 work, which we’re just beginning now.
“We’re going to be toiling away on Season 8 until May of 2019, so it’s eight or nine months away.”
For a show to be considered for the 2019 Emmys, six episodes of its current season must be aired before May 31, with the rest of the episodes needing to air before the first voting deadline (the end of June normally).
There are only six episodes in season eight of Game of Thrones, so they would all need to air before May 31. With Bauer talking about working on the effects until May, that sounds a bit too close to the wire.
It’s more likely that the final season will begin in June, after the Emmy cut-off but still within the first half of the year. That’s better than season seven beginning in July, but still… what a wait.
Game of Thrones season 8 will premiere in 2019, on HBO in the US and Sky Atlantic and NOW TV in the UK. Season 7 is now available to buy on DVD, Blu-ray or digital download.
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