HBO usually airs its original programming for up to two hours on one night a week , and Thrones tends to start after the network's late-winter shows conclude - usually very late March or early April . No premiere date for Thrones has yet been announced. But given that the winter programs have 10 episodes each, Thrones couldn't return in early April, or even mid-April,even if all three shows ran for 10 weeks straight. So we're looking at late April at the very earliest. In theory, the show could return April 17 if it was paired with the winter comedies for two weeks, but only if HBO decided to no longer air Thrones with fellow Emmy favorites Silicon Valley and Veep for the start of its run - something the network has done the past two years. So all of us desperately wondering what's going on at Castle Black are probably going to have to wait a little longer.