After months of half-guesses and speculation, we finally have a concrete release date for the first season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Ever since House of the Dragon rekindled the fire, everyone has been waiting to see more of Westeros.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms will be released sometime in January 2026. HBO still has not announced the official release date, but we do know that the series will arrive in the first month of the year.
Originally set to premiere in 2025, the show was delayed by half a year for reasons unknown. This means that fans will now get two Game of Thrones spinoffs in 2026, the other being House of the Dragon season 3, which will premiere in June 2026.
Along with the news, fans got a new teaser image that simply said, “This Winter, Spring is Coming.” A playful twist on that old phrase everyone remembers – you know which one. It also hints at the spring vibe of the show.
Before this, HBO bosses only hinted at an “early 2026” release, which left fans guessing between February and March.
Principal filming was wrapped in September of 2024, with reshoots in summer 2025, so this is quite the long post-production period. A first-look teaser was also revealed all the way back in November 2024,
For those who don't know, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is an adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg books. It follows Ser Duncan the Tall, or “Dunk,” a humble hedge knight, and his young squire “Egg”. Egg hides the secret that he’s actually Aegon V Targaryen. The story is set about a century before Game of Thrones, and roughly a hundred years after House of the Dragon.
The cast includes Peter Claffey as Dunk and Dexter Sol Ansell as Egg, along with a bunch of new faces from all corners of Westeros, most notably more Targaryen royalty.
This is a smaller, more personal story, and maybe a little softer around the edges as compared to the usual stories written by GRRM. Speaking of which, more Dunk and Egg stories have been planned, but much like The Winds of Winter, they’re nowhere in sight.
Season 1 will only have six episodes, adapting the first book of The Hedge Knight, first. We are expecting the events of the next two books – The Sworn Sword and The Mystery Knight – might follow in seasons 2 and 3. Those two seasons have already been ordered, and they will be filmed back-to-back.
Other shows currently in development based on the Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire universe include an Aegon’s Conquest series, with The Batman (2022) writer Mattson Tomlin still working on it.
Shows based on The Golden Empire, 10,000 ships, and The Sea Snake are also presumably still in various stages of development, but we haven’t had any updates on those for quite a while. Stay tuned for more news about the Game of Thrones spinoffs.