HBODon't fret, Game of Thrones is not going anywhere—it's been renewed for a seventh season. HBO announced the hit fantasy series, which has its sixth season premiere on Sunday, April 24, will return for another batch of episodes in 2017. The cable channel also renewed Silicon Valley and Veep for new seasons. Both of those comedies return on April 24 as well.
No episode counts for any new season have been revealed.
Season six credits for Game of Thrones include Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Aidan Gillen, Diana Rigg, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams and Jonathan Pryce. Jon Snow (Kit Harington) will be around as a corpse in season six, and maybe more? Season five ended with his character pretty dead.
The upcoming season of Silicon Valley is its third and Veep is returning for a 10-episode fifth season. Veep ended last season with Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Selina Meyer tied in the presidential election.
In an interview with Variety, Game of Thrones executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss said they believe they are approaching the final 13 episodes of the series and as a result, upcoming seasons may be shorter than viewers are used to.
"I think we're down to our final 13 episodes after this season. We're heading into the final lap," Benioff said. "That's the guess, though nothing is yet set in stone, but that's what we're looking at."
Game of Thrones, Veep and Silicon Valley all premiere on Sunday, April 24 on HBO.