WiC Weekly: July 24-July 30

From cast interviews to Season 7 spoilers to funny ephemera, we round up the biggest Game of Thrones-related stories from the past week.

First up, we have our first substantive news about Game of Thrones Season 7. A couple of actors were spotted heading back to Belfast, long a production hub for the show.

Are you eager for something to fill the time between now and when The Winds of Winter comes out? A new book from A Song of Ice and Fire author may do the trick.

Isaac Hempstead Wright looks back on Bran Stark’s development in Season 6, and offers some theories as to what’ll happen to him next.

Remember that bit in “Battle of the Bastards” where Ramsay Bolton killed young Rickon Stark as he ran across the battlefield? An archery expert tells us how plausible that was.

Before Season 6 of Game of Thrones began, Ian McShane (Septon Ray) let slip that the Hound was coming back. Months later, he doesn’t regret it.

Conan O’Brien goes “full Melisandre” in between interviewing the Game of Thrones cast members.

Pics from the 2017 A Song of Ice and Fire calendar have surfaced. They beautiful. That is all.

HBO’s incoming programming president confirms what we’ve suspected for a while: Game of Thrones Season 8 will be the last season of the show, and it’ll probably be six episodes long, although the details aren’t finalized.

Kristian Nairn, Iwan Rheon, and Faye Ramsay—all of whom took their bows during Season 6—reflect on their journeys on Game of Thrones.

How are the fans reacting to Game of Thrones Season 6? We crunch some numbers.