It's official: HBO has renewed Game of Thrones for a third season, after just two episodes of season 2.
Season 3 will span 10 episodes, which producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss say won't be enough to cover all of the events of the third book in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.
Weiss:
A Storm of Swords is too long to fit in a single sea