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'Game of Thrones' Season 3 To Get Longer Episodes

Posted by Carlos Aguilar

Tue, Dec 18th, 2012

HBO's Game of Thrones is currently one of the best shows on TV. However, one of the problems of the fantasy series is its budget restriction that keeps every season at 10 episodes. This means longer books like "A Storm of Swords" have to be divided across season 3 and 4. So how could this be fixed? By expanding the episodes' lengh to fit additional material!

According to Entertainment Weekly, there still will be 10 episodes covering the first half of George R.R Martin's 'A Storm of Swords,' but they'll be slightly longer.

“There’s almost another full episode’s worth of extra minutes spread across the season,” Co-creator D.B. Weiss says. “One of the great liberties with HBO is we’re not forced to come in at a specific time. We can’t be under 50 minutes or over 60, but that gives us a lot of flexibility.”

HBO has confimed the season 3 finale will run longer than 60 minutes:

“All 10 episodes gained a minute or two from past seasons with the finale very possibly exceeding 60 minutes.”

Game of Thrones returns March 31, 2013.

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