Sky Atlantic has confirmed when the new season of Game of Thrones will begin in the UK.

A dramatic announcement on Facebook has revealed that Season 7 will premiere on HBO in the US on Sunday 16 July.

The season’s opening episode will premiere in the UK with a 2am simulcast on Monday 17 July on Sky Atlantic and and online streaming service NOW TV.

The episode will be repeated at 9pm on the same day on Sky Atlantic.

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Unlike previous seasons of 10 episodes, this year’s run will only have seven episodes.

Watch the first teaser trailer…

Showrunner David Benioff teased last year: “The pieces are on the board now. Some of the pieces have been removed from the board and we are heading toward the endgame. The thing that has excited us from the beginning, back to the way we pitched it to HBO is, it’s not supposed to be an ongoing show, where every season it’s trying to figure out new storylines.”

He explained: “We wanted it to be one giant story, without padding it out to add an extra 10 hours, or because people are still watching it. We wanted to do something where, if people watched it end to end, it would make sense as one continuous story. We’re definitely heading into the endgame now.”

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