HBO says Jon Snow is really dead

It’s official: 'Game of Thrones'won’t stop at its seventh season, and Jon Snow (Kit Harington) is dead...

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Following his death,

HBO programming president, Michael Lombardo, had this to say about the character;

“Dead is dead is dead,” he said. “He is dead. Um, yes. Everything I’ve seen, heard and read, Jon Snow is indeed dead.”

He shared this at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills.

Speaking on the show ending at its seventh season, he said;

“Seven-seasons-and-out has never been the [internal] conversation. The question is: How much beyond seven are we going to do? Obviously we’re shooting six now, hopefully discussing seven. [Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss are] feel like there’s two more years after six. I would always love for them to change their minds, but that’s what we’re looking at right now.”

Lombardo also spoke on a possible spin off.

“I would be open to anything that Dan and David wanted to do—about Game of Thrones, or any subject matter,” Lombardo said.

“It really would depend fully on what they wanted to do. I think you’re right, there’s enormous storytelling to be mined in a prequel, if George and Dan and David decide they want to tackle that. At this point, all the focus is on the next few years of the show. We haven’t had any conversations about that at this point.”

He also defended Thrones from criticisms about the show’s violent season 5 content;

“In the pilot episode we see a 7-year-old boy pushed to seemingly his death from a tower,” Lombardo said.

“This show has had violence from the first episode. I can’t speak to any single person’s particular taste, but I think the show is phenomenal. It went to 20 million viewers this year, it went up over 1 million viewers from the prior season.

"The show continues to grow dramatically. There are no two showrunners who are more careful about now overstepping what they think the line is—and everybody has their own line. [What they show] is critical to the storytelling.”  He added.

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