Winter Is Taking Its Sweet-Ass Time: The Final Season of 'GOT' May Be Significantly Delayed 

Winter Is Taking Its Sweet-Ass Time: The Final Season of 'Game of Thrones' May Be Significantly Delayed

As if we haven't waited long enough for Season 7, it now appears Season 8 is far off in the future as well.

We knew the royals took their sweet time, but this is ridiculous.

showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss are known for doing what they have to do — including making diehard fans wait months and months for the good stuff, but we\'re not bitter — in order to make the hit HBO series as good as it gets. For this reason, it\'s not so much a surprise as a major annoyance that the show\'s eighth and final season may not premiere until

HBO programming president Casey Bloys admitted the season might not see the light of day until 2019 in a new interview with

"Yeah. They have to write the episodes and figure out the production schedule," Bloys said of Benioff and Weiss. "We\'ll have a better sense of that once they get further into the writing."

Pretty casual talk for the sizable bomb you just dropped, Mr. Bloys.

as good as possible is the No. 1 goal, and then we’ll see about these scripts," he said. "You\'re not going to see a situation where the next show in the

universe launches off the back of this one. The show that Dan and David have created will get its proper send off first. We wouldn\'t want to take away from that in any way."

If that\'s true, we can all wave goodbye to the characters we\'ve grown accustomed to since the show\'s premiere in 2011. Instead, we\'ll likely be united with ancestors of this group.

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