HBO Makes It Official: No 'Game of Thrones' Until 2019

As if Sophie Turner's confirmation wasn't enough, HBO has now made it officially official: Game of Thrones won't be returning until 2019. The premium cable network confirmed the long- and widely-held suspicion on Twitter this afternoon, tweeting that GoT would be skipping the 2018 calendar year entirely before returning for its eighth and final season -- one that will span just six episodes -- sometime in 2019. While it remains unclear when exactly GoT will return in 2019, fans should be in for ...