{"id":4618,"date":"2015-07-31T14:07:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=4618"},"modified":"2015-07-31T14:07:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:07:53","slug":"the-end-is-coming-game-of-thrones-may-end-after-8-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/31\/the-end-is-coming-game-of-thrones-may-end-after-8-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"The end is coming: Game of Thrones may end after 8 seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Game of Thrones<\/em> could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/hbo-might-showtime-game-thrones-potential-eight-se-223137?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=feeds\">end after the 8<sup>th<\/sup> season<\/a>, according to a leading HBO executive.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a recent event, HBO\u2019s President of Programming Michael Lombardo conceded that showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss see the show lasting for 8 seasons, the last of which will air in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently 5 <em>A Song of Ice and Fire <\/em>books, from which <em>Game of Thrones <\/em>is adapted, although author George R. R Martin is working on two more. The show has generally followed the material of the books, which would seemingly confirm the plan to end the show after 8 seasons (presuming that season 6 will tie up a few loose ends from the 5<sup>th<\/sup> book).<\/p>\n<p>The end of <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> may not be the end of our time in Westeros, though. As <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> is HBO\u2019s biggest success, the network is open to creating spin-offs, sequels and prequels. The latter seems most likely, with Martin\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tales_of_Dunk_and_Egg\">Tales of Dunk and Egg series<\/a><\/em> set 90 years before the events of <em>Games of Thrones <\/em>the obvious choice.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of what happens, we still have 3 more years to enjoy <em>Game of Thrones.<\/em> And who knows, perhaps Martin will write another book and give the team more material to work with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game of Thrones could end after the 8th season, according to a leading HBO executive. Speaking at a recent event, HBO\u2019s President of Programming Michael Lombardo conceded that showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss see the show lasting for 8 seasons, the last of which will air in 2018. There &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4621,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions\/4621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}