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The video featured footage from previous
seasons of the costly battles that preceded the coming showdown
for control of the fictional kingdom of Westeros. The network
did not reveal a specific date for the final season's premiere,
which will run for six episodes.
"Game of Thrones," which has won multiple Emmy awards, is HBO's
biggest hit ever with some 30 million viewers in the United
States and an army of devoted fans worldwide.
The series is based on novels by George R.R. Martin in a series
called "A Song of Ice and Fire."
HBO, the premium cable network owned by AT&T Inc <T.N>, plans to
put a large physical and social-media marketing effort behind
the upcoming season. Starting Nov. 27, promotions will be spread
throughout New York's Grand Central Station, and 250,000 "Game
of Thrones" mass transit MetroCards will be issued.
Several spinoffs of the series are in the works. HBO said in
June that it had given a pilot order to a prequel that will take
place thousands of years before the events of the current
series.
(Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Editing by Susan Thomas and Richard
Chang)
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