Tyrion in Season 5 (Picture: HBO)

HBO have revealed that they want fantasy series Game of Thrones to run for ten seasons.

The show, based on the novels of George R R Martin, is about to start its eagerly awaited fifth season.

And, as far as we’re concerned, there is no such thing as too much Game Of Thrones.

Show creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss claim to have a ‘clear vision on how the show will end’, with Benioff saying: ‘We see the light at the end of the tunnel.’


‘We still have a long way to go and things to figure out, but we definitely know where we’re heading and the major end-beats,’ he added.



‘We don’t want people to finally see the end and say, “Thank God that’s over”. We know basically how many hours are left in this story. We don’t want to add ten hours to that.

‘It’s about finding that sweet spot so it works for us and for HBO and, most of all, it works for the audience.’

While they have a vague plot outline of a total run of seven seasons, HBO programming president Michael Lombardo said: ‘This is the hard part of what we do. We started this journey with David and Dan.

‘It’s their vision. Would I love the show to go ten years as both a fan and a network executive? Absolutely.’

Season five is coming (Picture: HBO)

We’re team Lombardo on this one. With the sheer content of George R R Martin’s novels, there is easily sufficient material to stretch the show out as far as we’re concerned.

He went on to add: ‘If they weren’t comfortable going beyond seven seasons, I trust them implicitly and trust that’s the right decision – as horrifying as that is to me.

‘What I’m not going to do is have a show continue past where the creators feel they’ve finished with the story.’

Speaking about a potential Game of Thrones movie release at the end of the run of seasons, Lombardo told Entertainment Weekly those conversations had taken place.

More drama ahead for Cersei (Picture: HBO)

‘But when you start a series with our subscribers, the promise is that for your HBO fee that we’re going to take you to the end of this,’ he said.

‘I feel that on some level it would be changing the rules: Now you have to pay $16 to see how your show ends. We want to go out on our absolute highest note.’

Metro.co.uk have no doubt that the ending to Game of Thrones will be as spectacular as anything the series has produced so far, even though the prospect of it ending is a devastating one.

Season 5 is due to air on April 12 on HBO.

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