HBO Has Renewed Game Of Thrones For Seasons 5 and 6 Thanks To Huge Premiere Ratings

Oh just renew it for infinity already, HBO. Geez.

There was really no doubt about it but it’s official – Game of Thrones will be returning to HBO for at least another two seasons.

“Game of Thrones is a phenomenon like no other,” said Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming. “David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, along with their talented collaborators, continue to surpass themselves, and we look forward to more of their dazzling storytelling.”

The news follows huge rating numbers for the Season 4 premiere (which we have recapped here).

“Season 4 of the epic fantasy opened at 9 p.m. Sunday night averaging 6.6 million total viewers, according to Nielsen,” according to the LA Times. “Those are the best numbers for HBO since 2007, when the mob drama “Sopranos” ended with 11.9 million viewers.”

To compare, the Season 3 premiere was viewed by 4.4 million. I hope their PR team gets a raise.

Producers have previously said the show is likely to run for seven seasons so I’m kind of surprised they didn’t just go for it and announce all of them officially. I sincerely doubt the creators are going to do anything to mess up one of the most popular shows on television right now. Oh, I just jinxed myself didn’t I? This is like the time Ned Stark said he would tell Jon Snow all about his mom the next time he sees him. Oops.

(via Collider)

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."

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