Game of Thrones Season 8: When to Watch

This spring, winter will finally arrive.

Game of Thrones' eighth and final season will premiere on HBO this April, and details about what's ahead for the final watch have been trickling out little by little.

Season 8 will consist of six new episodes that will range between 54 minutes and 1 hour, 22 minutes in length. The show is expected pick up where the last season left off, when Jon Snow (Kit Harington) bent the knee -- and, um, other body parts -- to Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) just as his brother warged around through time enough to confirm Jon's true identity as her nephew. Last we saw, Cersei (Lena Headey) is still as sabotage-happy as ever, but this time, she might not have Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) as firmly in her corner. As the final trailer for the new season showed, he's "promised to fight for the living" and "intend[s] to keep that promise." Oh, and the Night King's army has breached the Wall at East Watch and now has a zombie ice dragon on-hand.

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There are a lot of theories and rumors floating around about what will happen to our heroes, frenemies and foes, but, to borrow a phrase from the late great Ygritte, we really know nothing.

HBO announced the premiere date for Game of Thrones Season 8 ahead of the premiere of True Detective Season 3, after teasing fans on social media that the news would arrive with the crime-drama's return to form. The short preview featured Jon alongside Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) and Arya (Maisie Williams) in the Stark family crypt as they encountered creepy statues of themselves and braced for the arrival of the freeze -- and it may or may not have been a wink to that fan theory about Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) becoming the Night King.

The network has since confirmed that each of the six episodes will air consecutively, with the following air dates and run times expected for each:

Episode 1 - April 14, 54 minutes.
Episode 2 - April 21, 58 minutes.
Episode 3 - April 28, 1 hr. 22 minutes.
Episode 4 - May 5, 1 hr. 18 minutes.
Episode 5 - May 12, 1 hr. 20 minutes.
Episode 6 - May 19, 1 hr. 20 minutes.

So, gather your dragonglass and prepare for the big fight ahead when Game of Thrones returns to HBO on April 14 at 9/8c.

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