HBO gives in, confirms Game Of Thrones’ final season will only be six episodes long

After what we can only imagine were a series of increasingly desperate corporate “Please”s and “Aw, come on”s, HBO has conceded that the final season of Game Of Thrones will only be six episodes long. That’s in line with what the network initially told reporters last year, but those announcements always included the caveat that HBO hadn’t given up on wheedling a few more episodes out of showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss before anything was set it stone.