Game of Thrones Renewed for Season 4

HBO announces pick up two days after record-breaking premiere

By Jenna Mullins Apr 02, 2013 5:43 PMTags
Game of Thrones, Peter Dinklage Helen Sloan/HBO

Winter is coming...again.

Coming off a record-breaking premiere, HBO has announced that Game of Thrones has been renewed for a fourth season.

Sunday's season-three opener broke series ratings records with 4.4 million viewers tuning in, up four percent from the season-two finale.

It was also a good day for fantasy television shows. 12.4 million people watched the season-three finale of The Walking Dead, which was the largest audience in the series history.

Lesson learned: zombies and Westeros are so hot right now.