D B Weiss

"If I could get them to do more, I would take 10 seasons, but we want to take their lead with what they can do and what the best version of the show is," HBO's programming chief Casey Bloys said.

"Now that winter has arrived on Game of Thrones, executive producers David Benioff and D B Weiss felt that the storylines of the next season would be better served by starting production a little later than usual, when the weather is changing," Casey Bloys, President, HBO Programming, said in a statement

"We kind of pushed everything down the line so we could get some grim, grey weather, even in the sunnier places that we shoot," DB Weiss said.

"If I could get them to do more, I would take 10 seasons, but we want to take their lead with what they can do and what the best version of the show is," HBO's programming chief Casey Bloys said.

"Now that winter has arrived on Game of Thrones, executive producers David Benioff and D B Weiss felt that the storylines of the next season would be better served by starting production a little later than usual, when the weather is changing," Casey Bloys, President, HBO Programming, said in a statement

"We kind of pushed everything down the line so we could get some grim, grey weather, even in the sunnier places that we shoot," DB Weiss said.