HBO has announced that the "Game of Thrones" will be renewed for two additional seasons: "'Game of Thrones' is a phenomenon like no other,” HBO president Michael Lombardo said in the announcement. “David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, along with their talented collaborators, continue to surpass themselves, and we look forward to more of their dazzling storytelling.” The news comes after its season 4 premiere episode had the biggest ratings since "The Sopranos" finale.
The Game of Thrones news doesn't come as a huge surprise given that the show's creators have spoken about having quite a long run and envisioning the show going on for several years. Given Sunday night's 6 million plus ratings, it seems like this vision will become reality. "We know there's an end somewhere in the seven- or eight-season zone. It's not something that goes 10, 11—it doesn't just keep on going because it can," Weiss told Vanity Fair. "I think the desire to milk more out of it is what would eventually kill it, if we gave in to that."
"It feels like this is the midpoint for us," Benioff told Entertainment Weekly of season four. "If we're going to go seven seasons, which is the plan, season four is right down the middle, the pivot point." There is still the question of how they will come up with the next few seasons when George Martin hasn't finished the fifth and sixth books. But Beinoff revealed that they would "talk through where things are going, because we don't know if we are going to catch up and where exactly that would be."
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