Enjoying the weather? Well if you're a Game of Thrones fan, those sunny skies are delaying one of the final seasons of the show.
Showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff told the folks over at the UFC Unfiltered podcast that the arrival of the seventh season will arrive later than usual, because the weather needs to be a lot uglier.
“We don’t have an airdate yet, but this year it’ll probably be a bit later, because we’re starting a bit later, because at the end of this season, ‘winter is here,’ and that means that sunny weather doesn’t really serve our purposes anymore,” Weiss said. “So we kind of pushed everything down the line, so we could get some grim, grey weather even in the sunnier places that we shoot.”
Skip 26 minutes in for when Benioff and Weiss first come through and jump to 41 minutes in to hear the above quote.
All Game of Thrones seasons have began in April aside from the third season which premiered on the last day of March.
Game of Thrones aired its season finale on June 26. The average amount of viewers from an episode of season six was about 7.69 million, an 11.8 percent increase from season five, according to TVSeriesFinale.com.