New HBO show will push back premiere of Game of Thrones Season 6

Various seasons of Game of Thrones have premiered on a few different dates during the show’s five-year history. Season 3 dropped early in the year, on March 31st. Season 1, on the other hand, began on April 17, relatively late. Season 6 looks like it will start later still.

According to an HBO press release, a new 10-episode series called Vinyl will premiere in the 9:00 PM time slot (the same one occupied by Game of Thrones) on Sunday, February 14. It’ll run alongside returning comedies Girls and Togetherness. That means Vinyl will wrap up its first season no earlier than April 17, which means that Game of Thrones can’t premiere until April 24. That’s assuming that there’s no break in between the Vinyl finale and the Game of Thrones premiere. If there is a break, the show couldn’t start until May.

If it’s any consolation, Vinyl sounds like it’ll be a neat show. It includes executive producers like Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese, and will be about the rock ‘n’ roll business in the 1970s. Scorsese will also direct the two-hour pilot. Bobby Cannavale will star as a record executive, Olivia Wilde will play his wife, Ray Ramano is on hand as a record executive, and Game of Thrones alum Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (Karsi, the badass wildling chief from “Hardhome”) will play Danish actress Ingrid Superstar.

But it’s probably not. Looking at it from a glass-half-full perspective, the delay could give the GoT producers a little more time for post-production.

H/T Deadline

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