Game of Thrones fans don’t have long left until the final season gets underway and we finally learn the fate of some of our favourite characters.
Season 8 is set to begin on Sunday 14 April, which means that there is just over three weeks until Jon Snow and Daenerys return to our screens.
The battle against the Night King is one of the biggest talking points heading into the new series, while there are also question marks over who will sit on the iron throne.
Despite the long wait for the show to return, the number of new episodes is much smaller than the 10 episodes that made up each of the first six seasons.
This started last season when only seven episodes were produced, and it resulted in longer episodes with plots moving at a faster pace.
Fans will likely see the same thing happen again with the fight against the White Walkers expected to take place across one or possibly two episodes.
How many season 8 episodes are there?
There will be six episodes in the eighth season of the show, making it the shortest series.
Typically Game of Thrones has had ten episodes per season, but this changed during the seventh season when only seven episodes were made.
What are the season 8 running times?
Despite being a shorter series in terms of episode-count, each one is set to be longer than usual with an extended running time for the final episode.
Episode one – 54 minutes
Episode two – 58 minutes
Episode three – 1 hour 22 minutes
Episode four – 1 hour 18 minutes
Episode five – 1 hour and 20 minutes
Episode six – 1 hour and 20 minutes
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