When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die — or so the saying goes, at least. Clearly none of the studio execs at HBO fancy risking the latter, though, as they seem hell bent on making sure that Game Of Thrones fans just keep winning. As Deadline reports, ahead of Thrones prequel House Of The Dragon‘s Season 3 premiere next summer, HBO has today confirmed that the Targaryen focused show will be returning for a fourth (and perhaps not quite as final as we’d once believed) season in 2028. And what’s more, we’ve even got some first look photos from the upcoming season — check them out below;
So there you go, Emma D’Arcy’s Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen sharing a private moment with her burdensome crown, and Matt Smith’s bloodthirsty Daemon Targaryen striding across the battlefield, Dark Sister in hand. Suffice it to say, House Of The Dragon’s third season isn’t looking like it’s about to go all soft on us then — especially not with the infamously bloody Battle of the Gullet awaiting next time out. News of HOTD’s Season 4 renewal came during a presentation held by HBO chairman and CEO Casey Bloys earlier today, and — as we alluded to above — there was no confirmation of the fourth season being the show’s final runout, despite showrunner Ryan Condal (and Westeros godhead George R.R. Martin) previously having stated he was pretty confident four would prove the Thrones prequel’s magic number. According to Deadline, Condal will make a final decision on whether the series’ story is over when he finishes writing its fourth instalment.
Also confirmed during Bloys’ presentation happily is the news that upcoming spin-off series A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms — which follows the adventures of simple knight Ser Duncan The Tall (Peter Claffey) and his impish squire Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell) — has scored a Season 2 renewal ahead of the first season releasing on 19 January, 2026. All of which is to say that six years on from Game Of Thrones’ divisive grand finale, we’re still just as mad for Westeros as we ever were, and will be heading back for at least a few more years to come, yet. Valar Dohaeris!