Which cast members are returning for season 8?

All the lead actors (including Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke, Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) are set to return alongside the likes of regulars Maisie Williams, Sophie Turner, Liam Cunningham, Rory McCann and many many more (with quite a few of them spotted by fans arriving in Belfast for filming).

How many episodes are there going to be?

Just six, sadly, in contrast to 2017’s seven-episode run and the ten-episode seasons we enjoyed from 2011-2016.

How long will each episode of Game of Thrones season 8 be?

It’s official: the episodes in S8 will be significantly longer than in previous seasons.

“Season 8 episodes will all I think be longer than 60 minutes,” David Nutter, who directed three episodes of the final run, said in a reddit AMA.

“They’ll be dancing around the bigger numbers, I know that for sure.”

What will happen in Game of Thrones season 8?

Aha, if only we knew: as ever, the plot is shrouded in secrecy. However, we do know one thing: there’s going to be a monumental battle at Winterfell between some of our favourite characters and the Army of the Dead.

“What we have asked the production team and crew to do this year truly has never been done in television or in a movie,” co-executive producer Bryan Cogman told EW.

“This final face-off between the Army of the Dead and the army of the living is completely unprecedented and relentless and a mixture of genres even within the battle. There are sequences built within sequences built within sequences. David and Dan [wrote] an amazing puzzle and Miguel came in and took it apart and put it together again. It’s been exhausting but I think it will blow everybody away.”

When is Game of Thrones season 8 out?

HBO has long hinted that the show would be back on screens in the first half of 2019, but now it has been officially confirmed that Game of Thrones will return on the 14 April. If you’re watching in the US, you can view the series on HBO, while UK viewers will have to tune into Sky Atlantic and NOW TV.

The Game of Thrones S8 trailer has landed, and it’s almost too intense to handle