Overview
- HBO will premiere Season 3 at 9pm ET on Sunday, June 21, with episodes released weekly across eight installments.
- The season opens with the Battle of the Gullet and progresses to large-scale assaults on King’s Landing drawn from George R.R. Martin’s Dance of the Dragons material.
- Showrunner Ryan Condal has said the battle staging is unlike anything on television and the production used multiple ship tanks, big water shoots and complex stunts to achieve the scale.
- HBO has listed extended runtimes for early episodes, with the premiere around 72 minutes and episode two about 68 minutes, giving the series a more cinematic episode length.
- Early critic screenings are strongly positive with a high Rotten Tomatoes score reported, while at least one outlet published a differing June 25 premiere date that conflicts with HBO’s announced schedule.