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2025-06-26 16:38:41 [Entertainment] Source: Culture Information Network

If you happen to be Martial arts Archivesa star in Game of Thrones, interviews -- pretty much anyinterview, even if it's not directly about the fantasy epic -- must be something of a minefield.

The further along the show has progressed, the more obsessed we've all become with finding clues about where the story's headed. During the last Season, scripts and even whole episodes were being leaked on an almost weekly basis.

The latest detail to make headlines, though, wasn't a plot point -- it was a supposed release date.

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Last Wednesday, Metropublished an interview with Maisie Williams which featured a question about Game of ThronesSeason 8 and the length of their shoot.

"We wrap in December and we air our first episode in April [2019]," Williams is quoted as saying in response.

Unsurprisingly a bunch of outlets, including Mashable, picked up on that story over the coming days.

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Soon, a Google search of Maisie Williams' name looked something like this:

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This week things got a bit more confusing.

On Monday evening, Williams posted the following tweet responding to the story:

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To try and get to the bottom of the confusion, Mashablehas reached out to both Metroand Williams' for comment. We will update this article if we receive a response.

In the meantime, it's worth noting that HBO has not commented on the release date yet.

April 2019 certainly sounds like a realistic possibility. But for now we still don't know when exactly Winter is coming.

UPDATE: Feb. 1, 2018, 8:43 a.m. GMT A spokesperson for Metrosent Mashablethe following statement:

“We take editorial integrity very seriously at Metroand strongly dispute Maisie Williams’ suggestion that her comments were in any way taken out of context.

The comments in question were made on 12th January 2018 in an interview with the freelance reporter James Mottram, who has worked with Metro for a number of years. Having listened to an audio recording of the interview, we are satisfied that the quote in question is accurate.