Game Of Thrones fans may only have a few more seasons to enjoy the HBO fantasy saga.
HBO programming chief Michael Lombardo said on Thursday that the drama series' producers are leaning toward three more seasons after the just-concluded season five.
'I'm always hoping they're going to change their minds, but I think that's what we're looking at right now," Lombardo told a Television Critics Association meeting in Beverly Hills.
Asked about the possibility of a prequel series, Lombardo said he believed there's 'enormous story material' to be mined for such a project.
The current focus of showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss was season six of Game Of Thrones, he said, which is in production now for 2016.
Lombardo, noting that the drama has included violence as a thread since it started, said the producers have been careful about not overstepping boundaries while remaining true to the storytelling.
'I support them fully artistically,' he said.
Voters in the Television Academy weren't swayed by the controversy, making Game of Thrones the most-nominated series last month for the upcoming 67th Primetime Emmy Awards.
It received 24 nods for the September awards, including best drama series.
Lombardo was asked if the popular character of Jon Snow, played by 28-year-old English actor Kit Harington, was actually a goner after appearing to die in the season five finale in June.
'Dead is dead is dead. He be dead. Yes,' said Lombardo.
'Everything I've seen, heard and read, Snow is dead,' Lombardo added.
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