Game of Thrones Season 7 to have later start date as filming is pushed back

A long wait: The seventh season of Game of Thrones will air later than expected
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Jennifer Ruby7 July 2016

The next series of Game of Thrones will have a later start date as filming has been pushed back.

While new seasons of the hit HBO show traditionally start in April, it looks like fans will have to wait a little longer for Season 7.

According to showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss, the weather is to blame for the slightly later start date.

Speaking on the UFC Unfiltered podcast, they said: “We don’t have an air date yet, but this year will probably be a little later.

“We’re starting a bit later because at the end of this season, ‘winter is here’ – and that means that sunny weather doesn’t really serve our purposes any more.

“So we kind of pushed everything down the line, so we could get some grim grey weather even in the sunnier places that we shoot.”

Next year’s season will be the second to last and is expected to be shorter than previous seasons, featuring just seven episodes instead of 10.

The showrunners recently confirmed the final seven episodes of the show are likely to air a year later in 2018.

They recently said: “We're trying to tell one cohesive story with a beginning, middle and end.

"As Dan said, we've known the end for quite some time and we're hurtling towards it.

“The thing that has excited us from the beginning, back to the way we pitched it to HBO is, it's not supposed to be an on-going show, where every season it's trying to figure out new story lines.”

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