<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> ← Previous Season 7 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> List of Game of Thrones episodes </Td> </Tr> <P> The eighth and final season of the fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones was announced by HBO in July 2016 . Unlike the first six seasons that each had ten episodes and the seventh that had seven episodes, the eighth season will have only six episodes . Like the previous season, it will largely consist of original content not found currently in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series and will instead adapt material Martin has revealed to showrunners about the upcoming novels in the series, The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring . </P> <P> The season will be adapted for television by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss . Filming officially began on October 23, 2017, and concluded in July 2018 . The season is scheduled to premiere during the first half of 2019 . </P>

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