HBO renews Game of Thrones for a third season!

[Arative]

HBO RENEWS GAME OF THRONES FOR THIRD SEASON
First Episode Of The Second Season Has Already Grossed 8.3 Million Viewers

LOS ANGELES, April 10, 2012 – HBO has renewed GAME OF THRONES for a third season, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming.

“Series creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss raised our expectations for the second season – and then surpassed them,” said Lombardo. “We are thrilled by all the viewer and media support we’ve received for the series, and can’t wait to see what Dan and David have in store for next season.”

[Gen. Chris]

I came here to post this but you beat me.


Woohoo!

[Sp!der]

Yeah, it was obvious that they would renewed it,although I have not seen season two yet...wwwwwoooooooooooooohoooooooooooo!

[Promethius30]

Super news, not surprised at all!

[chrono trigger]

im so happy about this just imagine if they manage to do all 7 seasons it will probably go down as one of the best saga's in tv history.

[Gen. Chris]

im so happy about this just imagine if they manage to do all 7 seasons it will probably go down as one of the best saga's in tv history.

Yeah but at this rate the show will catch up with the books

[magictrick]

Yeah but at this rate the show will catch up with the books

Or it will put pressure on GRRM to write the last two books faster!

[mrinflictor]

Just a note: the 3rd book will be split up into 2 seasons, so that gives GRRM another year for the last books.

[Gen. Chris]

Or it will put pressure on GRRM to write the last two books faster!

Perhaps. But still

[Morbo]

we landed on the moon?

[Skydiver]

I like that they can renew it early in the season...gives them time to wrap stuff up. or are they done taping s2? I'm not up on that stuff.

[Gen. Chris]

I like that they can renew it early in the season...gives them time to wrap stuff up. or are they done taping s2? I'm not up on that stuff.

I think they are completely done with season two. I believe principal photography ended in December

[chrono trigger]

Yeah but at this rate the show will catch up with the books

im worried about that but im hoping he will get books 6&7 done a bit quicker now he knows the show has been such a hit.

[Skydiver]

let's hope. However he's writing one of the season 3 episodes, #6 or 7 i think

[DigiFluid]

Or it will put pressure on GRRM to write the last two books faster!

Hopefully. Though I imagine that for (at least) books 4 and 5, they'll probably try to intertwine the stories of both books instead of doing the geographical separation thing. I imagine it would make that part of the story take at least two seasons/years, if not more.

Just a note: the 3rd book will be split up into 2 seasons, so that gives GRRM another year for the last books.

That's a rumour, nobody has confirmed any such thing.

[Skydiver]

from his livejournal account

Yes, it's official.

HBO has ordered a third season of GAME OF THRONES.

Like the first two seasons, it will be ten episodes long. This one will cover (roughly) the first half or thereabouts of A STORM OF SWORDS, the third novel in the series.

I'll be writing the seventh episode, with the working title "Autumn Storms."

Full details can be found at a dozen other places on the web, so I won't rehash 'em here. Just wanted to pass along the news to my faithful readers.

We had a grab event tonight at the Bloomsbury Theatre. Now I'm tired. night, all.

http://grrm.livejournal.com/

[DigiFluid]

Bam, confirmation. Awesome.

[The Mighty 6 platoon]

Bam, confirmation. Awesome.

Yeah the showrunners, David and Dan confirmed that some time ago. It was always their intention to split up a Storm Of Swords. The major rumour going round was that the show would be renewed for seasons 3 and 4 and they would be shot back to back, but they both shot this idea down, as it would be an unfeasible amount of work for them.

[Gen. Chris]

Hopefully. Though I imagine that for (at least) books 4 and 5, they'll probably try to intertwine the stories of both books instead of doing the geographical separation thing. I imagine it would make that part of the story take at least two seasons/years, if not more.

So the fourth and fifth books cover roughly the same timespan, just from different perspectives?

And yay for 3rd book being split between 2 seasons. That means even more GoT awesomeness, but probably means I will have to read the books instead of doing my plan of reading the book after each season, since I haven't read the books.

[Skydiver]

Yeah. Feast of crows? And dance with dragons take place during the same time, which was kinda funky to read. Like, jan - August or whatever for a few of the characters, then jan - august all over again. And with dragons the reader knows characters fates before the other characters do.