Game of Thrones will only be seven episodes next year (sadface)

[steve2470]

Game of Thrones season 7 will run for 7 episodes and debut later than usual

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/18/12215292/game-of-thrones-season-7-release-schedule-announced

Game of Thrones season seven will air in the summer of 2017 and run for seven episodes, according to an HBO press release issued Monday — officially confirming what many have been saying for months: that at least one of the show's probable two final seasons will be shortened as the series closes in on its endgame. All six previous seasons of Game of Thrones have run for 10 episodes each.

The show, which nabbed an impressive 23 Emmy nominations on July 14, will begin production this summer and continue filming into the fall, a schedule that will push back Game of Thrones’ season seven premiere date from spring (when it usually returns) until mid-summer.

According to Casey Bloys, president of HBO programming, the reason for the scheduling shift is primarily due to weather. "Now that winter has arrived on Game of Thrones, executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss felt that the storylines of the next season would be better served by starting production a little later than usual, when the weather is changing," he said in a statement released by the network.

Plans are to film the season’s seven episodes primarily in Northern Ireland, Spain, and Iceland.

I wonder why only seven episodes ?

[Avalux]

1. There are only 15 episodes left, split into two more seasons.

Yes unfortunately, all good things must come to an end.

[Islandurp]

2. 13 I heard

[Yavin4]

3. If Martin does not release Winds before the start of next season then...

he won't ever release it.