<em>House of the Dragon</em> Season 4: Everything We Know

Spoilers below.

The game is far from over. Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon will continue for a fourth season on HBO—but it won’t premiere for another three years. HBO made the season 4 renewal announcement months ahead of the show’s season 3 premiere, set for summer 2026, further underscoring HBO’s ongoing commitment to the GoT fanbase. (HBO has also renewed the upcoming GoT spinoff, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, for a second season.) The two shows “reveal just how expansive and richly imagined George R. R. Martin’s universe continues to be,” Francesca Orsi, head of HBO drama series and films, said in a statement.

Here’s what we know so far about HotD chapter 4.

Per HBO, season 4 will debut in 2028, while season 3 will premiere in the summer of 2026.

We can’t be sure yet. On Nov. 20, 2025, during a HBO and HBO Max slate presentation, HBO chairman and CEO Casey Bloys shared that House of the Dragon has not definitively set an end date. “We generally try to leave it to the creators to make that decision,” he said. “We’ll work with them. Sometimes people will work through the season to feel like, does it come to a natural end? Does it not? So I don’t have updates for you on any of that. But when we do, I’ll let you know.”

Showrunner Ryan Condal had previously shared, back in 2024, that the show would end with season 4. Per The Hollywood Reporter, when asked whether the prequel would continue for five seasons, Condal clarified, “No, I think it’s four.” (However, HBO had not officially announced a season 4 renewal at the time.)

This aligns with what Martin himself predicted, Variety points out. Back in 2022, the author—whose book Fire & Blood serves as the source material for HoTD—wrote on his blog that it would take “four full seasons of 10 episodes each to do justice to the Dance of the Dragons, from start to finish.” Season 2, however, comprised eight episodes. Condal anticipates that “the cadence of the show, from a dramatic storytelling perspective, will continue to be the same from season 2 on.”

Deadline previously reported in 2023 that the creative team saw the show running for three or four seasons. At the time, Condal and Martin, who is also an executive producer, had to “take a big-picture view of the series...and figure out the overall narrative flow, including how to break up the stories season-to-season and what battles to include and when,” co-editor-in-chief Nellie Andreeva wrote at the time. “With a portion of the plot originally intended for season 2, including a major battle, moving to season 3, I hear it is now more likely that the series would run for four seasons,” she added. This is likely referring to the Battle of the Gullet, a major battle that’s set to take place in season 3.

We won’t know until much closer to the 2028 release. But in the meantime, here’s the season 3 cast for reference, according to HBO: Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Steve Toussaint, Rhys Ifans, Fabien Frankel, Ewan Mitchell, Tom Glynn-Carney, Sonoya Mizuno, Harry Collett, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell, Phia Saban, Jefferson Hall, Matthew Needham, James Norton, Tom Bennett, Kieran Bew, Kurt Egyiawan, Freddie Fox, Clinton Liberty, Gayle Rankin, and Abubakar Salim.

June 21, 2026, on HBO Max.

Yes. On May 29, the series shared its first official trailer, which looks pretty exciting:

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This story has been updated.