HBO Confirms When ‘Game of Thrones’ Season Seven Will Premiere

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It's been 21 days, seven hours and 23 minutes since HBO aired the season six finale of Game of Thrones, aka THE GREATEST EPISODE OF ALL TIME. Honestly, it was insane. So much happened. My head is still spinning.

Oh yeah, spoilers!! SPOILERS! FUCKING SPOILERS!

Tommen is roadkill, Margaery has been blown to smithereens, Cersei is the queen and Jon Snow is the confirmed son of Lyanna Stark. That's right. R+L=J, people!

Now we just have to sit tight and wait patiently for season season to arrive. But how long is that exactly? Well, you'll be happy to know HBO has just announced the hit show - which will consist of seven episodes - is slated to premiere in summer 2017. Wait, what? That's FUCKING AGES AWAY! Not gonna lie, I'm not sure I can't even hang on that long.

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The network's programming chief, Casey Bloys, said: "Now that winter has arrived on Game of Thrones, executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss felt that the storylines of the next season would be better served by starting production a little later than usual, when the weather is changing.

"Instead of the show's traditional spring debut, we're moving the debut to summer to accommodate the shooting schedule."

According to reports, production will be based in Northern Ireland, with additional portions filmed in Spain and Iceland.

Thanks for nothing HBO.

Words by Sian Broderick

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