--- title: Game of Thrones Will Last At Least Another 3 Seasons description: HBO's programming president said the popular show will stay on the air until at least season eight canonical: https://time.com/3979677/game-of-thrones-eight-seasons/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-30T23:23:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:46:05.719Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Game of Thrones' Will Last At Least Another 3 Seasons og:description: The show will last at least until season eight og:url: https://time.com/3979677/game-of-thrones-eight-seasons/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0192d925e1aaa05/69885ad50a4a2276979c5249/150714_em_comcaststreamcost2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 150714_EM_ComcastStreamCost og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Game of Thrones' Will Last At Least Another 3 Seasons twitter:description: The show will last at least until season eight twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0192d925e1aaa05/69885ad50a4a2276979c5249/150714_em_comcaststreamcost2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Game of Thrones_ Will Last at Least Another 3 Seasons by [James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly Jul 30, 2015 11:23 PM UTC  (Left to right) Kit Harington, Kristofer Hivju, Ben Crompton in Season 5 of Game of Thrones on HBO (Left to right) Kit Harington, Kristofer Hivju, Ben Crompton in Season 5 of Game of Thrones on HBOHelen Sloan—HBO/courtesy Everett Collection by [James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly Jul 30, 2015 11:23 PM UTC It’s official: _Game of Thrones_ won’t only go for seven seasons. Even though _Thrones_ showrunners have repeatedly declared they only want to make seven seasons of the fantasy hit, HBO programming president Michael Lombardo for the first time firmly announced the series will go at least _eight_ seasons. “Seven-seasons-and-out has never been the \[internal\] conversation,” Lombardo said to critics at the Television Critics Association’s press tour Thursday. “The question is how much _beyond_ seven are we going to do. \[Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss are\] feel like there’s two more years after six. I would always love for them to change their minds. That’s what we’re looking at right now.” And what about a prequel series? “I would be open to anything Dan and David want to do,” Lombardo said. “It really would depend fully on what they want to do. I think you’re right, there’s enormous storytelling to be mined in a prequel. We haven’t had any conversations.” [_This article originally appeared on EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/30/game-thrones-eight-seasons) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3979677/game-of-thrones-eight-seasons/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3979677/game-of-thrones-eight-seasons/"},"headline":"Game of Thrones Will Last at Least Another 3 Seasons","datePublished":"2015-07-30T23:23:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:46:05.719Z","description":"\"That’s what we’re looking at right now”","url":"https://time.com/3979677/game-of-thrones-eight-seasons/","keywords":["Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0192d925e1aaa05/69885ad50a4a2276979c5249/150714_em_comcaststreamcost2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0192d925e1aaa05/69885ad50a4a2276979c5249/150714_em_comcaststreamcost2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"150714_EM_ComcastStreamCost","caption":"(Left to right) Kit Harington, Kristofer Hivju, Ben Crompton in Season 5 of Game of Thrones on HBO","creditText":"Helen Sloan—HBO/courtesy Everett Collection","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3979677/game-of-thrones-eight-seasons/","name":"Game of Thrones Will Last at Least Another 3 Seasons"}}]}] ```