‘Game of Thrones’ may not return until 2019. Say it ain’t so?
By Michelle Tompkins-On December 7, 2017
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Game of Thrones fans around the world are likely in a fetal position after Sophie Turner, the stunner who plays Sansa Stark may have let it slip that the show isn’t expected to return until sometime in 2019.
The final six episodes may be worth a wait, but more than a little over a year seems excessive. However, as annoyed as fans may be with this piece of gossip, it is unlikely that any big fan will not watch the final season, even if they are angered by the wait.
[Image by Tinseltown / Shutterstock.com]While it will be exciting to see the natural blond go red again to play Jean Grey in X-Men: Dark Phoenix, it still sucks to think we have to wait so long to see what happens with Sansa, Tyrion, Cersei, Jon, Daenerys, Jamie, Podrick, Arya and the rest of the people who occupy Westeros.
Now, no one is saying that showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss should sacrifice excellence for expediency, but still, more than a year does seem a bit excessive.
HBO technically hasn’t announced a release date, so Turner could have misspoken, but not likely.
Game of Thrones is on HBO and is still streaming so you can re-watch the entire series again and try to find more hidden clues.
Michelle Tompkins is an award-winning media, PR and crisis communications professional with more than ten years experience with coverage in virtually every traditional and new media outlet. She is currently a communications and media strategist and writer, as well as the author of College Prowler: Guidebook for Columbia University. She served as the Media Relations Manager for the Girl Scouts of the USA where she managed all media and talking points, created social media strategy, trained executives and donors and served as the organization’s primary spokesperson, participating in daily interviews with local, regional, and national media outlets. She managed the media for the Let Me Know internet safety and Cyberbullying prevention campaign with Microsoft, as well as Girl Scouts’ centennial Year of the Girl To Get Her There celebration in 2012, which yielded more than 800 million earned media impressions. In addition to her extensive media experience, Michelle worked as a talent agent in Los Angeles, California, as well contracting as a digital content developer and her writing has appeared in newspapers and online. She is passionate about television, theater, classic movies, all things food and in-home entertaining. While she has lived and worked in NYC for more than a decade, she is from suburban Sacramento and gets back there often to watch the San Francisco Giants on TV with her family.