Video: A Game of Thrones Season 6 teaser will air this Sunday

STOP THE PRESSES. The official Game of Thrones Twitter account has just dropped a quick video announcing that it will drop a Season 6 teaser this upcoming Sunday.

We knew when HBO dropped a bunch of Season 6 pictures that a trailer couldn’t be far behind. And as Dan pointed out in our Small Council the other day, chances were high that it would air right before the premiere of Vinyl this Sunday, or right before the Girls premiere next Sunday. Looks like he was right about the former…sort of.

Note the language HBO uses in that video above: It didn’t say that a Season 6 trailer is coming. We’re getting a “Season 6 tease.” Not a Trailer. A Teaser.

What’s the difference? Oh, only about a minute and a half or so. Let us look at the examples. This is a teaser:

This is a trailer:

Huge difference. The “teaser” only has a few seconds worth of footage. Some teasers go longer. (Think of those Batman vs Superman “teasers” for example. They were all 30-45 seconds long.) A trailer, on the other hand, runs a full two-and-a-half minutes, and can contain up to 70-75 shots from the new season.

A trailer, in fact, is long enough that the production can create several “teasers” from it. Last season, before Game of Thrones released its second trailer, “The Wheel,” there were three or four teasers that came out in the 72-hour period prior to the Sunday when the full trailer finally aired. HBO wanted to hype it so everyone would tune in.

The fact that the Game of Thrones Twitter account emphasized this is a teaser and we WILL be teased suggests that this will not be a full two-and-a-half minute trailer. This is a Teaser only. (And has anyone else noticed that EVERYTHING this season is being done via the Twitter account so far? Yesterday’s picture drop, the three “teasers” from a couple of weeks back…)

But considering that, as I have said several times now, Game of Thrones doesn’t have to give us anything? Therefore I will take whatever we can get.